Observe: this chart assortment has been up to date as of March 23, 2021 to include the newest knowledge.
This situation transient summarizes what is understood to date about how well being prices and utilization have modified in the course of the pandemic. The evaluation finds that the drop in well being spending in 2020 displays a lower in utilization for non-COVID medical care; notably early within the pandemic, it seems many individuals delayed or went with out medical care they in any other case would have acquired. Though healthcare use picked up towards the tip of the yr, it was not sufficient to compensate for the missed care earlier within the yr.
The difficulty transient is on the market in full on the Peterson-KFF Well being System Tracker, a web based info hub devoted to monitoring and assessing the efficiency of the U.S. well being system. For extra knowledge, evaluation, polling and journalism on the COVID-19 pandemic, go to our useful resource web page on kff.org.