Paying for Health Care
In 2015, America’s hospitals treated 142 million people in their emergency departments, provided 581 million outpatient visits, performed almost 27 million surgeries and delivered nearly 4 million babies. Every year, hospitals provide vital health care services like these to hundreds of millions of…
Key resources that will help users understand the health care system in the United States.
This page includes data that compares the cost of providing care versus what Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans pay hospitals.
Additional data points provide insight into the age of hospital infrastructure, cost of borrowing money and changes in labor costs.
Financial fact sheets from AHA's Policy Research.
Hospitals and health systems are where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients. Yet, spending on inpatient and outpatient care has slowed; in fact, Medicare spending growth for hospital services is at its lowest level in 17 years. This data brief looks at trends in health…
The following is an explanation of hospital charges, payment and costs.