Health Costs

This analysis examines transparency data currently shared by hospitals to comply with federal law and finds that they are messy, inconsistent and confusing, making it challenging if not impossible for patients or researchers to use them to compare prices. Many of these shortcomings stem from a lack of specificity in the requirements for what hospitals must report.

This analysis looks at the health care costs associated with pregnancy, including prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care. It finds women who give birth incur an extra $18,865 in total health care spending than other women. including $2,854 paid out-of-pocket.

This chart collection examines the latest available data on how health services utilization has changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This analysis of 2020 claims data finds that as telehealth use surged as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the shift toward virtual physician and mental health care did not materially affect how much insurers paid for each patient encounter.

This 24th annual benchmark study finds workers at smaller firms on average pay nearly $2,000 more out of pocket toward family coverage than workers at larger firms. The report captures trends in deductibles and other plan details, and employers’ experiences with mental health and telemedicine.

This interactive Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker tool allows users to examine five decades worth of data on health expenditures by federal and local governments, private insurers, and individuals.

This brief summarizes our recent polling on the public’s experiences with health care costs and the consequences of high costs on the uninsured and those with lower incomes.

This analysis details how ACA marketplace premiums are changing from 2022 to 2023, and the impact of subsidies to make them more affordable.