Experimental Data Map Health Care Estimates in GDP to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Framework

Today BEA is introducing new experimental data that map our health care estimates in gross domestic product to the framework of CMS’ National Health Expenditures Account, allowing researchers to get an earlier look at 2022 health care spending numbers. The experimental data show health care spending in 2022 rose to more than $4.3 trillion, while the share of GDP declined to 17.1 percent, from a 17.5 percent share in 2021. 

Health Care Statistics Updated With Improved Drug Price Data

The Bureau of Economic Analysis today updated its supplemental health care statistics with an improved methodology that shows the growing role of prescription drug rebates over two decades. After subtracting the rebates, BEA's estimate of health care spending in 2020 was reduced by $158 billion, or 5.3 percent, from the previous estimate for 2020.

New Health Care Statistics for First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic

The Bureau of Economic Analysis today released estimates for 2020 that measure health care spending by medical condition. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, spending on infectious and parasitic diseases amounted to more than $222 billion, growing $83.3 billion over 2019, according to the statistics in BEA’s Health Care Satellite Account.

BEA Releases for the First Time Detailed Data on More than 200 Medical Conditions

The Bureau of Economic Analysis for the first time released statistics that provide information on how much Americans spend to treat more than 200 specific medical conditions, such as acute myocardial infarctions, chronic kidney disease, and osteoarthritis.

The new statistics, which cover the years 2000 through 2014, are part of BEA’s Health Care Satellite Account created in 2015. The project offers a new way of analyzing health care…

BEA Releases New Health Care Statistics for 2014

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released a new set of statistics detailing how much the United States spends to treat different diseases and medical conditions.

Picking the Right Health Care Price Index

Researchers studying the hot topic of rising health care costs face a complicated choice: which price index to use.

There’s an array of government inflation indexes that differ in scope, formula and data sources. Choosing the right one can be critical to your research findings.

BEA Releases New Batch of Health Care Statistics

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released a fresh set of statistics Wednesday detailing how much the United States spends to treat different diseases and medical conditions.

The numbers, which cover 2013, offer new insights into health care, which accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. economy.

Industry in Focus: How Health Care and Social Assistance Fared in Third Quarter

Health care is an industry that many of us experience firsthand, whether receiving treatment for an illness or injury or simply getting an annual check-up. In the third quarter of 2015, health care and social assistance was the second-leading contributor to the 2 percent increase in the U.S. economy’s growth, providing 0.38 percentage point to real GDP.

Guest Blog: Spending on Disease Treatment has Increased, but Good Health Outcomes Have Too

by Cynthia Cox Kaiser Family Foundation

(This post, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, is based on BEA’s new health care statistics released earlier this year.)

Health Care Statistics for 2011 and 2012 Now Available

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released today statistics providing information on health care spending and price trends in the United States for 2011 and 2012. On January 22, BEA for the first time released statistics showing how much is spent in the United States to treat different diseases and medical conditions as well as trends in health care prices for 2000 through 2010. The new data are available on BEA's website in section called the…

Introducing the New BEA Health Care Satellite Account

Total health care spending reached 17.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013, and that share is expected to continue to grow significantly, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Given this trend, it is critical to develop an understanding of what those increased expenditures represent.  Are the increases attributable to rising costs of treatment or more individuals receiving medical care? What medical…

New Health Care Statistics to be Released Jan. 22

New statistics tracking the changes in the prices to treat different diseases are slated to be available Thursday, Jan. 22 when the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes a new health care satellite account report.