Healthcare prices surge 14% in last 5 years: Report

Becker's Healthcare April 25, 2024
Paige Haeffele

Healthcare spending among those insured through an employer was $6,711 per person in 2022, an increase of 18.7% from 2018, according to a recent report by the Health Care Cost Institute.

The “Health Care Cost and Utilization Report” for 2022 used data from a national, multipayer, commercial healthcare claims database with information from three organizations – Aetna, Humana and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s Blue Health Intelligence — with more than 1 billion claims per year, representing the yearly healthcare claims of more than 55 million individuals. The full methodology can be found here.

Here are five additional key findings from the report:

1. The average person’s...