Health Care Cost Institute annual reports examine year-over-year and five-year cumulative trends in health care spending for individuals with employer-sponsored insurance, segmented by health care service category. This year’s report found that average annual health care spending for individuals with employer-sponsored insurance increased to an all-time high of $5,892 in 2018. From 2014 to 2018, spending grew 18.4%, and about three-quarters of the increase was due to growth in service prices. In 2018, there was a 1.8% uptick in the use of services.
The report can be obtained at https://healthcostinstitute.org/health-care-cost-and-utilization-report/annual-reports.