This chart collection examines the latest available data on how health services utilization has changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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National Health Spending Explorer
The Health Spending Explorer on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker helps users examine five decades worth of numbers documenting expenditures by federal and local governments, private insurers, and individuals on 15 categories of health services, i…
How does U.S. life expectancy compare to other countries?
The analysis finds that life expectancy in the U.S. fell by 2.7 years from 2019 to 2021, whereas in peer countries’ life expectancies fell by an average of just 0.2 years in this period. COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the …
How does medical inflation compare to inflation in the rest of the economy?
Prices for medical services typically rise more quickly than the broader economy, but the reverse has been true recently as general inflation rose rapidly. This analysis finds that overall prices grew by 6% in February 2023 from the previous year, whil…
Cost of COVID-19 Hospital Admissions among People with Private Health Coverage
This analysis examines the cost of COVID-19 treatment for inpatient care among people with health coverage through large employers. It finds that in 2020, COVID-19 hospitalizations cost an average of $41,611, including an average out-of-pocket payment …
COVID-19 leading cause of death ranking
This updated analysis examines COVID-19’s effect on mortality rates, and estimates that in January 2022, COVID-19 was number two on the list of leading causes of death in the U.S.
What Impact Has the Coronavirus Pandemic Had on Health Care Employment?
This chart collection takes a deep dive into employment data to analyze how jobs and wages in the health sector shrank and recovered since the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020.
Overall inflation has not yet flowed through to the health sector
Prices for medical services typically rise more quickly than the broader economy, but the reverse has been true recently as general inflation rose rapidly. The recent trend reflects the unusually high inflation affecting other parts of the economy, whi…
How much is health spending expected to grow?
This chart collection explores how health spending is expected to grow in coming years, based on National Health Expenditure projections from federal actuaries.
How much is health spending expected to grow?
This chart collection explores how health spending is expected to grow in coming years, based on National Health Expenditure projections from federal actuaries.
