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December 02, 2013 at 09:14 AM
New government health care spending survey data suggest that the country may be holding down hospitalization costs but spending more on home health care.
Researchers at the federal Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have included data on hospitalization costs, home health care costs, office-based medical provider costs, and other health care costs in a report on Medical Expenditure Panel Survey costs for 2011.
The researchers looked at costs for people in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population who had various types of health care costs in 2011.
A comparison with the report for 2010 shows overall mean expense per person with health care expenses increased 4.5 percent in 2011, to $4,839.
The median expense rose 5.9 percent, to $1,239. That figure means that half of the people who had health care expenses in 2011 had expenses below $1,239, and half had expenses above that level.
