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1. Strategy 6N: Price Transparency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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.

2. Estimating the Costs of Primary Care Transformation: A Practical Guide and Synthesis Report (pdf file)
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   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.

3. Offer Information on How Healthcare Costs and Quality Relate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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.

4. National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Chartbooks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2024 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … 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

5. Biden Administration Tackles Financial Strains on Healthcare Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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

6. Draft Final Report Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated with Selected Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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   November 01, 2017 - We define additional cost as the incremental costs to the hospital for the inpatient stay attributable … These charges are converted to costs using cost-to-charge ratios. … PubMed Search Criteria Common Search Criteria for Cost ("Costs and Cost Analysis"[mh] OR "Cost of … Costs"[mh] OR “Health Expenditures”[mh] OR cost[tiab] OR costs[tiab] OR expenditure*[tiab] OR expense … The costs of medical falls by component of cost, timing, and injury severity.

7. Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of a Quality Reporting Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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  

8. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2017 - We define additional cost as the incremental costs to the hospital for the inpatient stay attributable … The costs are limited to the hospital costs that would not have occurred had the HAC not occurred. … These estimates do not include related costs (e.g., days of lost work) or costs of a readmission resulting … Study results that report hospital charges have been transformed to costs using cost-to-charge ratios … base their costs calculations on the Bates article. 49 Costs associated with prevention efforts, as

9. Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends (CFACT) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2021 - Organization & Contacts Offices and Centers 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

10. All-Payer Claims Databases | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - feasible approach for using all-payer claims databases to advance the goal of improving health care affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency. … New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, using APCD data to launch public Web sites with price and cost … develop an effective and feasible approach for using APCDs to advance the goal of improving health care affordability … , efficiency, and cost transparency.

11. Draft Final Report Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated with Selected Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2017 - We define additional cost as the incremental costs to the hospital for the inpatient stay attributable … These charges are converted to costs using cost-to-charge ratios. … PubMed Search Criteria Common Search Criteria for Cost ("Costs and Cost Analysis"[mh] OR "Cost of … Costs"[mh] OR “Health Expenditures”[mh] OR cost[tiab] OR costs[tiab] OR expenditure*[tiab] OR expense … The costs of medical falls by component of cost, timing, and injury severity.

12. Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - In 2016, AHRQ awarded a contract to develop methods and estimate the incremental inpatient financial costs … used in future national and other estimates of the total additional incremental inpatient financial costs … Definitions of costs do not reflect actual additional incremental cost to the hospital attributable to … We present our estimates of additional costs and excess mortality based on the meta-analysis and compare … as additional costs per case of HAC.

13. First-of-its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - In first-of-its-kind research to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the medical costs of smoking … “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 … of healthcare costs and adverse outcomes of cigarette smoking on racial and ethnic communities.” … The article, “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Smoking in the United

14. Overview of Outcomes for Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Overview of Outcomes for Inpatient Stays Involving Sepsis Healthcare Cost … 2 million inpatient stays in the U.S. related to sepsis, accounting for 8.8 percent of all hospital costs … Aggregate hospital costs for sepsis stays increased by 66.8 percent from 2016 to 2021 to $52.1 billion … 2021, sepsis stays expected to be billed to Medicare accounted for over half of the aggregate hospital costs … of sepsis; Medicaid and private insurance each accounted for 20 percent of the aggregate hospital costs

15. Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs, 2020 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … Data & Analytics Data Infographics Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs … Data Sources Available from AHRQ Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs … , 2020 Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs, 2020 (PDF, 759 KB) Source: AHRQ Healthcare … originally created November 2023 Internet Citation: Hospital Admission Versus Readmission Costs

16. Costs of Emergency Department Visits By Age | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … Management AHRQ Grantee Profiles Getting Recognition for Your AHRQ-Funded Study Grants by State No-Cost … Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Databases Healthcare Cost … , 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   Back to

17. Research Initiative in Clinical Economics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - Promote the availability of standardized inputs to cost-effectiveness and related studies. … Articles include cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses, as well as publications on related topics … Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry. … Contains 534 cost-utility analyses published from 1976 through 2001; the Registry will be expanded to … include cost-effectiveness studies using cost per life-year as the cost-effectiveness ratio.

18. Costs for Spine Fusions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2021 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … FAQs Home Data & Analytics Data Infographics Costs … States Health Information Knowledgebase Data Sources Available from AHRQ Costs … for Spine Fusions Costs for Spine Fusions (PDF, 1.4 MB) Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost … last reviewed November 2021 Page originally created November 2021 Internet Citation: Costs

19. AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation Program (R36) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … indirect costs. … Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs (i.e., overhead, or indirect costs) are limited to 8% of modified … total direct costs. … Research to increase accessibility and affordability of health care by examining  innovative market approaches

20. Characteristics and Costs of Potentially Preventable Hospital Inpatient Stays, 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - Infographics Data Visualizations Data Tools Data Innovations All-Payer Claims Database Healthcare Cost … Management AHRQ Grantee Profiles Getting Recognition for Your AHRQ-Funded Study Grants by State No-Cost … Home Data & Analytics Data Visualizations Characteristics and Costs … June 2020 Page originally created June 2020 Internet Citation: Characteristics and Costs … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/visualizations/costs-of-preventable-stays.html