Spending by Service

Hospital Care

• Community Hospital Expenses, 1965-1995 (1996 Green Book)
• Facilities
• Sociodemographic and clinical factors affect use of diagnostic imaging tests for patients with back pain (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Research costs by procedure (MECQA)
• "Income Level of Bad-Debt and Free-Care Patients in Massachusetts Hospitals" (Health Affairs, 7/99)
• "New Analysis Shows Deeper Damage to Hospitals from Balanced Budget Act Cuts" (AHA: 5/17/99)
  
• Hospitals Caught in Financial Squeez
• Most Hospitals Had Healthy Profits Last Year
• Hospital Operating Margins are Sliding Steadily

Physician Services

• Research costs by procedure (MECQA)
  
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• Most MD Pay Based in Part on Productivity

Dental Services

• Research costs by procedure (MECQA)

Other Profession

• Nursing Shortage: Specialty Care is a Weak Spot in the System

Home Health Care

• Long Term Care (HealthHippo)
• Medicare/privately insured patients likely to pay more than others for home health services (AHCPR: 1/98)
• Medicare Home Health Agencies: Closures Continue, With Little Evidence Beneficiary Access Is Impaired (GAO: 5/26/99)

Pharmaceuticals

• Drugs (HealthHippo)
• Complete Guide to the World Generic Drugs Market  
  

Laboratories/Diagnostic Facilities

• Labs, Diagnostic Facilities & Telemedicine (HealthHippo)

Vision Products

Other Medical Durables

• Medical Devices and Supplies (HealthHippo)

Nursing Home Care

• Assisted Living: Popularity Up, Costs Down (ALFA: 4/19/99)
• Long Term Care (HealthHippo)
• Nursing Home Trends (AHCPR, Fall 1999) This report has not been released as of 8/6/99.
• Financial Preparedness: Few Boomers Ready For LTC Costs (AHCA release, 4/6/99)

Other Personal Care

Informal Caregiving

• Informal caregivers provide nearly $200 billion in unpaid care

Spending by Age

Children

• Expenditures on Children by Families

Adults

Elderly

• Health Expenditures and the Aging Population (BLS: 11/97)
• Medicare and Elderly Spending on Health Care (Green Book 1996)

Spending by Gender

•  Study finds spending differences in males and females (NEJM: June 1998)

Spending by Disease

• "The Relation Between Funding by the National Institutes of Health and the Burden of Disease" (New England Journal of Medicine, 6/17/99)
  
• Cost of Illness by Disease
• American Cancer Society's Annual Report
• Pain
  
• Diabetes Research Working Group (Funding for diabetes research has fallen)