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. 2020 Dec;110(12):1751–1752. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305972

TABLE 1—

Prices Paid by Private Health Plans for Hospital Care in Michigan and Indiana

% of Medicare or Private Price per Service ($), CaseMix-Adjusted
Hospital Setting Data Source Year Michigan Indiana Difference, Michigan vs Indiana, %
Inpatient RAND 2.0 2017 153% 236% −35.2
Outpatient RAND 2.0 2017 161% 403% −60.0
Inpatient JHU memo to HELP 2016 171% 255% −32.9
Inpatient HCCI 2017 $16 516 $22 139 −25.4
Outpatient HCCI 2017 $443 $649 −31.7
Inpatient and outpatient RAND Hospital Data 2016 147% 223% −34.2

Note. CaseMix = complexity and intensity of treatments provided to individual patients; HCCI = Health Care Cost Institute; HELP = Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; JHU = Johns Hopkins University; Price = negotiated allowed amount per medical service, including the health plan liability plus any patient cost sharing; RAND 2.0 = RAND Corporation National Hospital Price Transparency Study.

Source. Adapted from White.5