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A new healthcare research organization, called the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), will provide access to anonymous cost and utilization data from private and government insurers. Professor Martin Gaynor of Carnegie Mellon University, who leads the HCCI, said “…for the first time, there will be comprehensive data on the privately insured who make up the majority of health consumers in the United States.”
HCCI currently has agreements to access data from plans operated by Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and United-Healthcare, as well as from Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage plans. The data represent more than $1 trillion in spending from 2000 to present; HCCI expects updates twice a year. Researchers at the nonprofit, nonpartisan institute hope to use the data to improve understanding of healthcare costs and utilization and to help policymakers develop effective solutions to the long-term problems facing the healthcare system.
HCCI’s governing board will work to broaden the list of participating health plans and add more data from government payers, including Medicaid. Beginning in 2012, HCCI plans to publish its own “scorecards” and supporting analysis on aggregate trends of healthcare costs and utilization.
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