Health Care Industry

Research from the Commonwealth Fund (a private foundation) to advance their mission of promoting a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable.

CBO's Health Care topics page links to cost estimates and reports. CBO devotes a large share of its resources to studying proposals that would make narrow or broad changes in the nation's systems for delivering and financing health care.

From the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency that advises the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. In addition to advising the Congress on payments to private health plans participating in Medicare and providers in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service program, MedPAC is also tasked with analyzing access to care, quality of care, and other issues affecting Medicare.

Collaborative of government, private, non-profit, and academic organizations focused on improving the development and deployment of state-based all payer claims databases (APCDs). Includes links to existing APCDs.

Non-profit organization whose goal is "to provide complete, accurate, unbiased information about health care utilization and costs to better understand the US health care system." Data contributors to HCCI are four large insurance companies: Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare. Reports focus on children's health spending and prices and utilization associated with Employer Sponsored Insurance.

Hospital-specific charges for the more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges, paid under Medicare based on a rate per discharge using the Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG).

Data sourced from the Machine Readable File disclosure required by CMS' Hospital Price Transparency rule. Search by service or provider/health system