title: Tracking health care costs: hospital care key cost driver in 2000.
abstract: This Data Bulletin is based on data from the Milliman USA Health Cost Index ($0 deductible), which is designed to reflect claims increases faced by private insurers; the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Educational Trust survey of employer-based health plans for 1999-2001; the KPMG survey of employer-based plans for 1991-98; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment, Hours and Earnings series to track payroll costs; and Center for Studying Health System Change 2000-01 site visits (see www.hschange.org).
mesh_terms: D017047:Cost Sharing / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States