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In a paper from the January 2016 issue of Health Affairs, Abe Dunn and colleagues from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) introduce readers to their innovative new Health Care Satellite Account (HCSA) and use the data to provide insights about the recent slowdown in health spending growth rates. Rather than focusing on health spending by type of service or product (hospital care, physician services, prescription drugs, etc.), the HCSA presents spending by medical condition. It combines this with information on numbers of persons being treated so that spending growth rates can be decomposed into a volume effect (persons treated) and a price effect (spending per person treated) for each of an all-inclusive set of conditions.
This should be very exciting to those involved with population health, public health, and clinical care as they can now regularly track health spending in terms that relate so much more directly to their areas of concern — the prevalence of disease and the patterns and costs of treatment.