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Research and data
New studies and reports on prices and spending, and the price data hospitals and insurers are required to publish.
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Research and data
Half of working-age adults went without needed care because of cost, survey finds
The Commonwealth Fund's biennial insurance survey found cost-related barriers to care rising since 2022, including among adults who had coverage all year.
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Research and data
Workers' cost for family coverage rose 9% to $7,471 in 2026, KFF survey finds
KFF's annual survey of employers found that what workers pay toward family coverage grew almost twice as fast as the total premium this year, with the heaviest bills at small firms.
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New drugs launched at a median net price near $257,000 a year in 2025, report finds
A report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review and West Health found that launch prices for new drugs rose sharply after 2022 and that most first prescriptions for those drugs were not filled within a month.
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Prices drove 90% of employer plan spending growth from 2019 to 2023, report finds
The Health Care Cost Institute's annual claims report found that people with job-based coverage used only slightly more care over five years, while the average price of that care climbed every year.
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High-deductible plan members paid up to 2.4 times as much for chronic care, study finds
A national claims study of more than half a million workers with diabetes or high blood pressure found that patients in high-deductible plans paid far more of the bill for routine recommended care, though the dollar gap was modest.
