NBER Project on Satellite National Health Accounts

Publications involving Tracking Medical Spending

Explaining the slowdown in spending growth for the elderly Medicare beneficiaries between 1999 and 2012.
David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B. Rosen, K. Messer, and Susan T. Stewart. In press, Health Affairs.
(no link to the full-text paper yet)

Attributing Medical Spending to Conditions: A Comparison of Methods.
David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Irina Bondarenko, Messer K., Trivellore Raghunathan, Stewart S.T. & Allison B. Rosen
(NBER Working Paper No. 25233)

Strengthening National Data to Better Measure What We Are Buying in Health Care: Reconciling National Health Expenditures with Detailed Survey Data
Allison B. Rosen, Kaushik Ghosh, Emily S. Pape, Marcelo Coca Perraillon, Irina Bondarenko, Kassandra L. Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Susan T. Stewart, David M. Cutler
(NBER Working Paper No. 23290)

Attribution of Health Care Costs to Diseases: Does the Method Matter?
Allison B. Rosen, Ana Aizcorbe, Tina Highfill, Michael E. Chernew, Eli Liebman, Kaushik Ghosh, David M. Cutler

Policy makers will need a way to update bundled payments that reflects highly skewed spending growth of various care episodes.
Allison B. Rosen, Ana Aizcorbe, Nestoriak N, David M. Cutler, and Michael E. Chernew. Health Affairs, 2013;(32)5,944.

Comparing Commercial Systems for Characterizing Episodes of Care.
Allison B. Rosen, Eli Liebman, Ana Aizcorbe, David M. Cutler. 2012, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Household Consumption Expenditures for Medical Care: An Alternate Presentation.
Ana Aizcorbe, Eli Liebman, David M. Cutler, Allison B. Rosen. Survey of Current Business, 2012;92(6),34.

Measuring Health Care Costs of Individuals with Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the U.S.: a Comparison of Survey and Claims Data

Challenges in Building Disease-Based National Health Accounts.
(Rosen/Cutler Disease NHA Med Care)

Estimation of Disease-specific Health Care Costs Using Causal Inference Framework.
Irina Bondarenko and Trivellore Raghunathan. Presentation at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA.