In this episode, we are joined by John Hargraves, senior researcher at Health Care Cost Institute, to discuss HCCI's report on trends in healthcare spending, utilization and pricing among Americans with employer-sponsored insurance. Highlights of this episode include: background on HCCI's study that looked at healthcare spending from 2013 to 2017 using claim data from over 40 million people, why per-person spending has increased to its current level of $5641 per person, what four high-level categories are used to show the distribution of spending, reasons behind the significant increases in outpatient spending, and more...