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Healthy Marketplace Index. Closer look at Baltimore, MD
Healthy Marketplace Index. Closer look at Baltimore, MD
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Closer look at Baltimore, MD
- Contributor(s):
- Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Washington, DC] : Health Care Cost Institute, January 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Costs -- trends
Health Care Sector -- trends
Health Expenditures -- trends
Baltimore - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Each year, HCCI creates the Healthy Marketplace Index (HMI) to measure how health care spending varies across the United States. The HMI shows local health care spending, prices, and use compared to the national median. By describing how health care spending varies geographically, HMI is a starting point in understanding what is causing high and rising health care costs in a particular metropolitan area. Across the country, a range of factors drive health care spending. High spending on health care, in turn, forces families, businesses, and governments to make difficult tradeoffs between needed care and other priorities such as housing, education, and food. This case study begins to broaden HMI’s exploration of health care spending in specific areas by describing some of the factors contributing to spending, use, and prices in one area--Baltimore, Maryland--including social determinants of health, prevalence of disease, health care providers, health care markets, and Maryland’s global budget initiative. The HMI shows that health care spending in Baltimore was 18% lower than the national median in 2020, with lower prices and a lower cost mix of services provided, but higher use. Spending in Baltimore grew at roughly the same rate as the national median--about 7%--from 2016-2020. Although Baltimore’s HMI includes the broader Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metro area, this case study focuses on Baltimore City.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918697383506676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918697383506676