National health expenditures, 1996

The national health expenditures (NHE) series presented in this report for 1960-96 provides a view of the economic history of health care in the United States through spending for health care services and the sources financing that care. In 1996 NHE topped $1 trillion. At the same time, spending gre...

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Published in:Health care financing review 1997, Vol.19 (1), p.161-200
Main Authors: Levit, K R, Lazenby, H C, Braden, B R, Cowan, C A, Sensenig, A L, McDonnell, P A, Stiller, J M, Won, D K, Martin, A B, Sivarajan, M L, Donham, C S, Long, A M, Stewart, M W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
DataView
Drug Prescriptions - economics
Economic development
Economics
Financing
Growth rate
Health administration
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
Health Expenditures - trends
Health insurance
Health services
History
Home Care Services - economics
Hospitals
Humans
Insurance, Health - economics
Managed Care Programs - economics
Market positioning
Medicaid program
Medical care, Cost of
Medical economics
Medical sector
Medical service
Medicare
Medicare - statistics & numerical data
Nursing homes
Nursing Homes - economics
Personal health
Physicians
Population
Prescription drugs
Prospective payment systems
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Studies
United States
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Summary:The national health expenditures (NHE) series presented in this report for 1960-96 provides a view of the economic history of health care in the United States through spending for health care services and the sources financing that care. In 1996 NHE topped $1 trillion. At the same time, spending grew at the slowest rate, 4.4 percent, ever recorded in the current series. For the first time, this article presents estimates of Medicare managed care payments by type of service, as well as nursing home and home health spending in hospital-based facilities.
ISSN:0195-8631
1554-9887