title: Employment-related health insurance: federal agencies' roles in meeting data needs.
abstract: Employer-sponsored health insurance accounts for almost one-third of all health care spending. As health care cost growth accelerates affecting the availability of employer-sponsored insurance and depth of coverage, the importance of timely and accurate information for measuring and monitoring these changes and formulating policy options increases. Identifying a growing gap between the need for and availability of data to inform policy on employment-related health insurance issues, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established a committee of Federal agency representatives to evaluate and advise data collection efforts. This article reports on the committee's current efforts, focusing on evaluation of results from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) and the National Compensation Survey (NCS).
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wiatrowski
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: Katharine R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Levit
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D017049:Employer Health Costs; D005249:Fees and Charges; D006077:Government Agencies; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017149:Private Sector; D014481:United States