Latest tendencies in well being care utilization and spending counsel that the majority spending on well being providers is exceeding pre-pandemic ranges and that well being care prices are rising quicker than lately. Nonetheless, utilization is erratically distributed by setting and market. For instance, some measures of hospital utilization stay decrease than pre-pandemic ranges, which can mirror a continued shift of care towards outpatient clinics.

This chart assortment examines latest tendencies in healthcare utilization and spending utilizing quite a lot of knowledge sources. As of the primary quarter of 2024, annual progress in healthcare spending is now greater than earlier than the pandemic.

This evaluation and extra can be found on the Peterson-KFF Well being System Tracker, an internet data heart devoted to monitoring and assessing the efficiency of the U.S. well being care system.