Federal workers have updated a must-have tool for health insurance agents and brokers: the latest batch of national health care spending data.
A team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has stuffed the summary article, and the spreadsheets behind the article, full of health care system revenue and expenditure numbers for 2016.
CMS analysts report here, for example, that overall U.S. health care spending grew 4.3 percent in 2016, to $3.3 trillion, or $13,348 per person.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
