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Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker Reports on How Health Costs Might Change with COVID-19
On April 15, 2020, the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health System Tracker released its brief, How Health Costs Might Change with COVID-19. Due to the coronavirus spreading across the U.S., private health insurers and government health programs may potentially incur increasing health care costs. However, there are numerous unidentified pending issues, such as: 1) the extent to which costs increase; and 2) how the costs are distributed among payers, programs, individuals, and geography. In addition, the brief discusses changes in health care costs due to the coronavirus pandemic as well as various factors that may impact health costs. The brief also presents special considerations for private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The brief is available here.