Facts and Figures

This United Hospital Fund chartbook series contains regional and neighborhood differences in insurance coverage and uninsurance around New York State and within New York City. For the first time, data are broken down into 14 separate regions across New York State, including the five boroughs of New York City; within the city itself, estimates are provided for 55 separate neighborhoods.

This National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation data brief examines U.S. health care spending, including why the U.S. spends more than $8,000 per person on health care and the factors that drive spending growth.

These fact sheets on accountable care organizations (ACOs) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provide basic information and answer questions related to the proposed new rules recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

This fact sheet from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines how the recent recession drove up Medicaid enrollment as millions of Americans lost jobs and income, and how that increase in enrollment has been the primary cause of the increase in overall Medicaid spending.

This study by the Center for Studying Health System Change examines key patient, physician, practice, and market characteristics to identify factors associated with the cost of treating of high-cost Medicare beneficiaries.

This Small Business Majority’s national survey gauged 619 small business owners’ views on two key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: small business tax credits and insurance exchanges. It found that both the small business tax credit (a provision allowing businesses with fewer than 25 employees that have average annual wages under $50,000 to get a tax credit of up to 35% of their health insurance costs beginning in tax year 2010) and the insurance exchanges (online marketplaces where small businesses and individuals can band together to purchase insurance starting in 2014) make small business owners more likely to provide healthcare coverage for their employees.

This Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) statistical brief sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) presents data from HCUP’s Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), which analyzed the 2 million most expensive stays (5% of the total) in short-term nonfederal hospitals in 2008. The brief focuses on differences between discharges in the top 5% and bottom 95% of total charges.

This United Hospital Fund annual chartbook provides an overview of the uninsured in New York and the nation, detailing demographic information, such as income, employment status, and age. It also reports on coverage distribution among workers and low-income New Yorkers, describes trends in coverage, and provides estimates of the number of uninsured New Yorkers who are eligible for public health insurance.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report explores health insurance affordability among middle-income workers during tough economic times. The report shows that the number of middle-income earners who obtained health insurance from their employers dropped by 3 million people from 2000 to 2008. Just 66% of people in families earning roughly $45,000 to $85,000 are now insured through their employers—a drop of seven percentage points from 2000 to 2008.