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US Healthcare Cost Service

The US Healthcare Cost Service analyzes and forecasts key input costs for US healthcare facilities, including nursing wages, drugs and utilities. Our team of industry experts analyzes current cost patterns, projects future changes in prices and wages, and reports on the economic assumptions underlying the forecasts.

  • Each quarter, we produce more than 125 health-related price-and-wage forecasts and calculate six composite market basket indexes representing operational and capital costs for hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, and home-health facilities.

    For more than 30 years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has incorporated our US cost forecasts into the prospective Medicare reimbursement rates recommended to Congress.

    In addition, IHS Global Insight calculates the update payment for Medicare's Part B program. The outlook for these national market baskets are also used to update reimbursement payments for state Medicaid programs and private insurance plans across the US

    Features:

    • National forecasts of market basket representing operational and capital costs for: 
      • Hospitals 
      • Physician services 
      • Nursing homes 
      • Home-health agencies 
    • National and regional wage and price indexes, both projected and historical 
    • Projections of industry price movements for a range of healthcare input categories 
    • Forecasts extend 3 years, updated each quarter 
    • Web site-accessible data formatted in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets 
    • Outlook summary available online in PDF format


    Benefits and Applications:
    Hospitals, physician services, nursing homes, and health facilities use our composite market basket indexes for internal budgeting and to better anticipate the escalation of public and private reimbursement.

    This information also enables government agencies and insurance companies to understand the outlook of key input costs for health facilities and pay fairly for these services 

    The US Healthcare Cost Service helps you: 

    • Analyze the costs facing different types of health facilities 
    • Quantify sources of price change 
    • Produce accurate cost benchmarking 
    • Prepare cost budgets

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