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TUESDAY, March 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — From 1996 to 2016, there were considerable increases in U.S. spending on health care, according to a study published in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Joseph L. Dieleman, Ph.D., from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, and colleagues estimated U.S. spending on health care according to public insurance, private insurance, or out-of-pocket payments in 1996 to 2016 for 154 health conditions.<\/p>\n
The researchers observed an increase in total health care spending, from an estimated $1.4 trillion in 1996 to an estimated $3.1 trillion in 2016. In 2016, an estimated 48.0, 42.6, and 9.4 percent of health care spending was paid by private insurance, public insurance, and out-of-pocket payments, respectively. Among the 154 health conditions, low back and neck pain had the highest amount of health care spending in 2016, with an estimated $134.5 billion in spending (57.2, 33.7, and 9.2 percent paid by private insurance, public insurance, and out-of-pocket payments, respectively). After adjustment for changes in inflation, population size, and age groups, public and private insurance and out-of-pocket payments were estimated to have increased at annualized rates of 2.9, 2.6, and 1.1 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n
“These estimates have the potential to augment the understanding of what health conditions are leading to spending for each payer, as well as to allow for population- and age-adjusted comparisons of spending across time for each payer,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n
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