Health Care Spending Bounces Back, but Still Falls 1% Year Over Year

April 9

Although health care utilization started to rebound toward the end of 2020, spending on health care services was down by 1.0% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Among health care facilities, outpatient care centers and physicians’ offices saw drops in revenue year-to-date, while revenue for laboratories and nursing homes went up. The analysis also compared health spending in the quarter before, the quarter of and the four quarters following the beginning of economic recessions, and found that the COVID-19 recession is the first of the past five during which health spending has decreased year over year.

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Jinghong Chen Reporter

Jinghong has been producing infographics and data stories on employer-sponsored insurance, public health insurance programs and prescription drug coverage for AIS Health’s Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits since 2018. She also manages AIS Health’s annual executive compensation database for top insurers and Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliates. Before joining AIS Health, she interned at WBEZ, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times Chinese. She graduated from Missouri School of Journalism with a focus on data journalism and international reporting.

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