Health Care Spending and Related Data: A Webinar 

When: July 23, 2024 | 11:30am-1:00pm ET

Virtual location: Zoom (register here)

What: The vast US health sector is barely comprehensible with annual, national health expenditures estimated at $5.0 trillion in 2024. We need a more complete picture to understand health care spending. There is no single source of publicly available and easy to use information for collective use by policymakers, purchasers and the public to achieve those purposes. This National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine webinar will have current federal, multi-payer, and state systems addressed these questions? Can we leverage the existing models to advance a standardized approach using common methodologies and specifications to improve existing data systems and build towards the desired national goal of controlling cost growth?

Agenda

Welcome (5 minutes)

• Rachel Block, Milbank Memorial Fund

The Producers of Data (40 minutes)

• Micah Hartman, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services
• Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of Commerce
• Lauren Peters, Center for Health Information and Analysis, State of Massachusetts
• Michael Bailit, Bailit Health

Health Discussants (20 minutes)

• Kara Odom Walker, Nemours

• Matthew Rae, Kaiser Family Foundation

Q&A (25 minutes)

• Rachel Block