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Prices For Common Medical Services Vary Substantially Among The Commercially Insured

Author(s) -

David Newman,

Stephen T. Parente,

Eric Barrette,

Kevin Kennedy

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

health affairs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837

H-Index - 178

eISSN - 2694-233X

pISSN - 0278-2715

DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1379

Subject(s) - metropolitan area , medicaid , business , agricultural economics , geography , economics , health care , economic growth , archaeology

Using a national multipayer commercial claims database containing allowed amounts, we examined variations in the prices for 242 common medical services in forty-one states and the District of Columbia. Ratios of average state prices to national prices ranged from a low of 0.79 in Florida to a high of 2.64 in Alaska. Two- to threefold variations in prices were identified within some states and Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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