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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/strategy6n-price-transparency.html
March 01, 2020 - alternatives (e.g., maternity care, elective surgeries); and prescription drugs with wide variations in pricing … That cost reflects what the health plan pays plus the patient's share of the cost, whether as a copayment … Providing cost information led to a $220 reduction in costs per test (18.7 percent) and to reduced use … The site provides access to the following:
A summary of State legislation on pricing transparency and … the disclosure of information on health costs.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/share-info/offer-info.html
June 01, 2019 - EXAMPLE: Minnesota Community Measurement Reports Total Cost of Care
Title: Minnesota HealthScores: … /cost-of-services-procedures-ratings
One of the first organizations to report healthcare cost information … to consumers is Minnesota HealthScores, which publishes comparative information on the total cost of … , you can help them understand more about healthcare costs and how to lower their own costs while still … It is important to emphasize that high cost and high quality do not necessarily go hand in hand.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/primary-care/tpc/estimating-costs-primary-care-transformation.pdf
July 31, 2015 - Gross-Costing Methods
Gross-costing methods can be used to conduct retrospective cost analyses of … Cost Analysis Methods
Exhibit 1 provides a summary of the methods used to estimate the costs of primary … A cost analysis was
conducted in primary care practices
that varied in terms of NCQA
recognition. … The study team also
collected data on practice
characteristics to be used in
aggregate cost analyses … was then coded
and aggregated to enable cost
comparisons across time, presented
in 2012 dollars.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/spinal-fusions.pdf
November 12, 2021 - Infographic - Costs for Spine Fusions
Costs for Spine Fusions
Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/financial-strains-healthcare.html
November 01, 2023 - Americans have long been facing a healthcare affordability crisis. … Some families have high out-of-pocket costs for insurance premiums and medical bills. … The American healthcare affordability crisis affects every sector of society. … Human Services (HHS), the Department of the Treasury, and the CFPB launched an examination of high-cost … misaligned incentives across the healthcare ecosystem to improve the quality of care and lower the costs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implement/apic-cost-calculator.html
April 01, 2022 - CLABSI/CAUTI Prevention
CLABSI/CAUTI Playbook
CLABSI/CAUTI Learning Tools
APIC HAI Cost … Settings
Telemedicine
Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol
APIC HAI Cost … Control and Epidemiology (APIC) healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Calculator Tools help define the costs … reviewed April 2022
Page originally created February 2022
Internet Citation: APIC HAI Cost … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implement/apic-cost-calculator.html
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/cost-or-procedures.html
January 01, 2022 - Visualizations
Data Tools
Data Innovations
All-Payer Claims Databases
Healthcare Cost … Information Knowledgebase
Data Sources Available from AHRQ
Frequency and Cost … of Operating Room Procedures
Frequency and Cost of Operating Room Procedures (PDF, 430.3 … January 2022
Page originally created January 2022
Internet Citation: Frequency and Cost … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/cost-or-procedures.html
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cpi/centers/cfact/index.html
January 01, 2021 - Organization Chart
AHRQ Key Contacts
Center for Financing, Access and Cost … Trends (CFACT)
Conducts, supports, and manages studies of the cost and financing of health care … Trends (CFACT), formerly known as the Center for Cost and Financing Studies (CCFS), strives to provide … information and tools they need to improve decisions on health care financing, access, coverage and cost … medical care providers, employers and other sources of insurance coverage; and surveys of the use, cost
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/cost-effectiveness.html
November 01, 2018 - entire quality reporting project based on quantifiable results, it is feasible and useful to compare the costs … One area where comparing costs and results can be very helpful is in marketing and promotion. … What’s the cost for each person who “clicks through” to your Web site? … In 2008, the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness … https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/assess/what-you-evaluate/cost-effectiveness.html
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/answer-policy-questions-data.html
March 01, 2021 - expanding our data platforms, including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Healthcare Cost … translate it into a coherent framework for understanding what factors actually drive healthcare use, costs … In addition, the costs of care remain high – both systemically and for individuals and families. … Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and across the Federal and State Governments to address affordability … Joel Cohen is director of AHRQ’s Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/hospital-readmission-costs.pdf
November 08, 2023 - Readmission Costs, 2020
AH
Average Cost of
Admissions Overall
Average Cost of a Single
Hospital … of
Admissions Overall
Average Cost of a Single
Hospital Readmission
Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost … of
Admissions Overall
Average Cost of a Single
Hospital Readmission
Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost … .gov/reports/statbriefs/sb304-read missions-2016-2020 .jsp
Hospital Admission Versus
Readmission Costs … $14,500
Average Cost of I Admissions Overall
$16,300
Average Cost of a Single
Hospital Readmission
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/index.html
April 01, 2024 - 2 MB) Chartbook on Effective Treatment ( updated August 2016 ) ( PDF , 4.7 MB) Chartbook on Care Affordability … Chartbook on Hispanic Health Care ( September 2015 ) (PDF, 4.4 MB)
RELATED CONTENT
Care Affordability … : The National Academy for State Health Policy Hospital Cost Tool provides analytical insights into … how much hospitals spend on patient care services and how such costs relate to the hospital charges
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/index.html
February 01, 2018 - Databases
Background Report
Conference Report
Environmental Scan
Healthcare Cost … feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases to advance the goal of improving health care affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency. … develop an effective and feasible approach for using APCDs to advance the goal of improving health care affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/es/topics/index.html
October 01, 2008 - developing an effective, feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases to improve healthcare affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency. … Since October 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services no longer reimburses costs associated … healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and costs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/topics/index.html
October 01, 2008 - developing an effective, feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases to improve healthcare affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency. … Since October 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services no longer reimburses costs associated … healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and costs
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/costs-age-visits-ED.pdf
May 21, 2021 - Costs of Emergency Department Visits By Age
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/smoking-cessation-disparities.html
December 01, 2023 - Smoking in the United States
Press Release Date: December 8, 2023
Findings inform distributional cost-benefit … In first-of-its-kind research to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the medical costs of smoking … Joe Biden’s April 2023 Executive Order calling for policymakers to examine distributional effects in cost-benefit … “Minority communities have not reaped very much in medical cost-savings from the large reduction in smoking … “Our findings will help policymakers conduct cost-benefit analyses that accurately reflect the burden
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/cost-survey.html
March 01, 2021 - Capacity
Managing Urinary Incontinence
Tools for Change
EvidenceNOW: Cost … Survey, National Evaluator
Oregon Cooperative
Resource: EvidenceNOW: Cost Survey (PDF, 180.2 … collect data from each cooperative regarding personnel, consultant, subcontracting, and other direct costs … reviewed March 2021
Page originally created January 2019
Internet Citation: EvidenceNOW: Cost … https://www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/research-results/research/cost-survey.html
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/costs-ed-visits.html
March 01, 2021 - Visualizations
Data Tools
Data Innovations
All-Payer Claims Databases
Healthcare Cost … States Health Information Knowledgebase
Data Sources Available from AHRQ
Costs … of Emergency Department Visits By Age
Costs of Emergency Department Visits By Age (PDF … , 1.6 MB)
Source: HCUP Statistical Brief #268, Costs of Emergency Department Visits in the United … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/costs-ed-visits.html
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January 13, 2022 - Infographic - Frequency and Cost of Operating Room Procedures
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Infographic … Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #281: Overview of Operating Room … HCUP Data Partners can be found at: https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/partners.jsp
Frequency and Cost of … Procedures
Operating Room
Procedures
Hospital Stays
Involving Operating
Room Procedures
Overall
Costs