Research Spotlight: A Comparison of BEA and BLS Disease-Based Price Indexes

摘要

NATIONAL HEALTH expenditures and health care prices are routinely measured according to type of service, such as hospital care, physician care, or prescription drugs. The official National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs) maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) both track spending in this way. Health care prices, maintained by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), are also measured by type of service. Within this framework, the drivers of health spending tend to be analyzed in terms of service volumes and prices.