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A P C D C O U N C I L
S E P T E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 1 9
C H A P I N W H I T E
A D J U N C T S E N I O R P O L I C Y R E S E A R C H E R , R A N D
Medicare Price Benchmarking
in APCDs
This briefing represents the views of the author, and not RAND or RAND’s funders.
Use Case for APCDs
Source: https://www.apcdcouncil.org/file/281/download, italics added
“Used by policymakers, health care providers, plans, employers,
and academic researchers to ...
o understand regional variation in care delivery and price,
o monitor population health trends,
o and ensure patients have adequate access to care.”
Why Focus on Prices?
“It’s Still the Prices, Stupid”
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Source: Anderson, G. F., Hussey, P., & Petrosyan, V. (2019). It’s Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt. Health Affairs, 38(1),
87-95. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05144.
“It’s Still the Prices, Stupid”
o Why private health plans?
o persistently high growth in spending per
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o Why hospitals?
o $1.1T industry
o private prices high, rising, and widely varying
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Source: Anderson, G. F., Hussey, P., & Petrosyan, V. (2019). It’s Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt. Health Affairs, 38(1),
87-95. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05144.
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Private HospitalX
The Context:
Unsustainable Growth in Employer-Sponsored Premiums
SOURCE: KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey, 2019 (http://files.kff.org/attachment/Report-Employer-Health-Benefits-Annual-Survey-2019)
Edging Out Salary Growth & Economic Development
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o What do we know already?
o higher and growing faster than Medicare
o price growth is driving increased spending, not utilization
o vary widely from market to market, and within markets
o tend to be higher at large hospitals offering specialized services
Prices Paid by Private Health Plans for Hospital Care
Source: Selden, T. M., Karaca, Z., Keenan, P., White, C., & Kronick, R. (2015). The Growing Difference Between Public And Private Payment Rates For Inpatient Hospital Care. Health
Affairs, 34(12), 2147-2150. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0706.
Health Care Cost Institute. (2018). 2016 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report. Retrieved from http://www.healthcostinstitute.org/report/2016-health-care-cost-
utilization-report/. Prices are from Appendix Table A3,, utilization and intensity is estimated by dividing spending (from Appendix Table A1) by prices.
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Source: White, C., Bond, A. M., & Reschovsky, J. D. (2013). High and Varying Prices for Privately Insured Patients Underscore Hospital Market Power (No. 27). Retrieved from
http://nihcr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/HSC_Research_Brief_No._27.pdf.
High-priced Hospitals Tend to be Large,
and Part of Even Larger Systems
Source: White, C., Reschovsky, J. D., & Bond, A. M. (2014). Understanding Differences Between High- And Low-Price Hospitals: Implications For Efforts To Rein In Costs. Health Affairs,
33(2), 324-331. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0747
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What Do We Not Yet Know?
o How do prices paid by private health plans vary ...
o hospital to hospital
o hospital system to hospital system
o state to state
o service line to service line
o Are prices in line with the value hospitals are providing?
o Are efforts to tamp down hospital price growth working?
The Inspiration
“Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data”
Source: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Downloads/Inpatient_Data_2016_CSV.zip
The Inspiration
Source: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Downloads/Inpatient_Data_2016_CSV.zip
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Methods and Data
Our Approach
o Obtain claims data fromo self-funded employers, APCDs, health plans
o Measure prices in two wayso relative to a Medicare benchmark
o price per casemix weight
o Create a public hospital price reporto posted online, freely downloadable
o facilities and systems identified by name
o inpatient prices and outpatient prices
o Create private hospital price reports for self-funded employers
Two Ways to Measure Hospital Prices
1. “Relative prices”
2. “Price per casemix weight”
=𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡
𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡
=𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡
𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠
adjusted for
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• local wages
• teaching
• uncompensated
care
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service lines
adjusted for
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Why Use Medicare as the Benchmark?
o Largest purchaser of health care in the world
o Sets industry standards
o Prices and methods are empirically based and transparent
o Medicare prices intended to be fair
o Uses quality measures/value-based payment
Scope of the Study
Services Hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient
States CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MO, MT, NC, NH, NM, NY,
OH, PA, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI, WY
Years 2015-7*
Hospitals 1598 short-stay general medical/surgical (~1/3 of national total)
Allowed amount
(2015-7)
$13.0B, $6.3B inpatient and $6.6B outpatient
Claims (2015-7) 330k inpatient stays, 14.2M outpatient lines
Data sources 2 all payer claims databases,
many health plans,
~50 self-funded employers
Funders RWJF, NIHCR, self-funded employers (not health plans, or hospitals)
*: NH,CO: 2012-7, IN: 2013-2017, MI,LA: 2015-2018
F O R F U L L R E P O R T A N D D E T A I L E D D A T A G O T O
H T T P S : / / W W W . R A N D . O R G / P U B S / R E S E A R C H _ R E P O R T S / R R 3 0 3 3 . H T M L
F O R A S C R O L L A B L E I N T E R A C T I V E M A P G O T O
H T T P S : / / E M P L O Y E R P T P . O R G / # V I S U A L I Z E
National Study (“RAND 2.0”)
Findings
All-State Trends in Hospital Prices Relative to Medicare
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Source: White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led
Transparency Initiative, 2019. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf.
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State Average Relative Prices, 2017
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Source: White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led
Transparency Initiative, 2019. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf.
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Commercial Relative Price TREND Varies at the State Level:
Comparison of 5 States
Source: White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led
Transparency Initiative, 2019. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf.
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Hospital System Relative Prices, All States, 2015-7
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Source: White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led
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Source: White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led
Transparency Initiative, 2019. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf.
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Colorado Rating Area Relative Prices, 2017
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8 - East 7 - Pueblo 5 - GrandJunction
6 - Greeley 4 - FortCollins
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Source: Author’s analysis based on data reported in White, Chapin, and Christopher Whaley, Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans Are High Relative to Medicare and Vary
Widely: Findings from an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative, 2019. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf.
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The Hospital Price Heat Map (from employerptp.org/#visualize)
The Hospital Price Heat Map (from employerptp.org/#visualize)
Prices paid to hospitals by private health plans
do not reflect a functioning competitive market
What Does it Mean?
Challenges
Technical Challenges
o Identifying providerso NPIs do not map 1-to-1 with Medicare provider numbers
o matching on provider name/address possible but messy, time consuming
o Complexity in Medicare price settingo approx. 25 distinct payment systems in Medicare
o each uses a different grouping & pricing algorithms
o some groupers (e.g., APCs) and pricers (e.g., IPPS) are very complicated
o CMS doesn’t prioritize analyst-friendly pricing tools
o Missing fieldso Medicare prices for some services (e.g. SNF, home health) depend on patient
assessments that aren’t in commercial data
Legal/Regulatory Challenges
o Gobeille
o Restrictions on APCD use (aherm, Minnesota)
o Many APCDs expected to be financially self-sustaining
P L A N N E D R E L E A S E D A T E : M A R C H , 2 0 2 0
Round 3.0 is Underway
Enhancements
o Expand use of APCDso CO, DE, RI, ME, NH
o Expand set of participating employers
o Expand provider types to include ASCs, professionals in facility settings, and specialty hospitals
o Policy analyseso what can state and federal policy makers do?
o what would impacts be on hospitals and patients?
A Vision for APCDs
E M P L O Y E R S ’ F O R U M O F I N D I A N A
R O B E R T W O O D J O H N S O N F O U N D A T I O N
N A T I O N A L I N S T I T U T E F O R H E A L T H C A R E R E F O R M
I B M W A T S O N H E A L T H
C E N T E R F O R I M P R O V I N G V A L U E I N H E A L T H C A R E ( C I V H C )
N E W H A M P S H I R E C O M P R E H E N S I V E H E A L T H C A R E I N F O R M A T I O N S Y S T E M
C O L O R A D O B U S I N E S S G R O U P O N H E A L T H
T H E H E A L T H F O U N D A T I O N O F G R E A T E R I N D I A N A P O L I S , I N C .
H O U S T O N B U S I N E S S C O A L I T I O N O N H E A L T H
N E W M E X I C O C O A L I T I O N F O R H E A L T H C A R E V A L U E
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Acknowledgements
C O N T A C T : C H A P I N W H I T E
C W H I T E @ R A N D . O R G 2 0 2 - 2 0 3 - 0 2 6 0
@ C H A P I N W H I T E
Thank You!
o Public reporto https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.pdf
o Detailed datao https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3033/RAND_RR3033.data
.zip
o Interactive mapo https://employerptp.org/#visualize
o FAQ on enrolling in next roundo https://employerptp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RAND-EFI-hospital-price-transparency-study-
Round-3.0-FAQ.pdf
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