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Factors Associated With Increased US Health Care Spending

Factors Associated With Increased US Health Care Spending Opinion EDITORIAL Implications for Controlling Health Care Costs Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc In this issue of JAMA, Dieleman and colleagues report find- global budgets for hospital care and will expand that to ings from their study in which they examined trends in US all hospitals, clinicians, and post–acute care services by health care spending from 1996 to 2013. The authors evalu- January 1, 2019. Another approach would be payers, ated the association be- hospitals, and clinicians partnering at a local level to control tween 5 factors—population price increases—for example, to establish a contract that growth, population aging, minimizes price increases but that allows the hospitals and Related article page 1668 disease prevalence or inci- clinicians to be financially successful by meeting quality met- dence, service utilization, and service price and intensity of rics and lowering total cost of care (eg, an accountable care– services—and health care spending over time and also ana- type contract). lyzed trends overall and across major conditions. This report The other components in service intensity that drive is a significant contribution to the literature because trends in higher prices are scientific and technological advancements. health care spending over time, by major categories of spend- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Factors Associated With Increased US Health Care Spending

JAMA , Volume 318 (17) – Nov 7, 2017

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright 2017 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.2017.16802
pmid
29114814
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Abstract

Opinion EDITORIAL Implications for Controlling Health Care Costs Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc In this issue of JAMA, Dieleman and colleagues report find- global budgets for hospital care and will expand that to ings from their study in which they examined trends in US all hospitals, clinicians, and post–acute care services by health care spending from 1996 to 2013. The authors evalu- January 1, 2019. Another approach would be payers, ated the association be- hospitals, and clinicians partnering at a local level to control tween 5 factors—population price increases—for example, to establish a contract that growth, population aging, minimizes price increases but that allows the hospitals and Related article page 1668 disease prevalence or inci- clinicians to be financially successful by meeting quality met- dence, service utilization, and service price and intensity of rics and lowering total cost of care (eg, an accountable care– services—and health care spending over time and also ana- type contract). lyzed trends overall and across major conditions. This report The other components in service intensity that drive is a significant contribution to the literature because trends in higher prices are scientific and technological advancements. health care spending over time, by major categories of spend-

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Nov 7, 2017

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