What Does It Cost?

So much of health care policy and practice is driven by trying to "bend the cost curve," which is why we spend a lot of time analyzing costs and changes in costs. The challenge is that there is no ‘master cost book’ for health and human services so I’m sharing some of the most interesting cost data from our work at OPEN MINDS during the past few years.

The Big Picture

Total U.S. health care costs in 2017: $3.5 trillion (see National Health Expenditures 2017 Highlights).
Hospital care costs in 2017: $1.1 trillion (see National Health . . .