Health Care-Related Savings Accounts, Health Care Expenditures, and Tax Expenditures.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Approximately 30% of US families with employer-sponsored health insurance, disproportionately drawn from high-income groups, benefit from flexible spending accounts (FSAs) or health savings accounts (HSAs). The combined association through both out-of-pocket spending and premiums of these tax-favored accounts with health care expenditures and tax expenditures remain uncertain.

Objective

To compare the health care and health-related tax expenditures among families holding FSAs, HSAs, or neither type of account.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used family-level data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2019, and conducted regression models, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic ch

SUBMITTER: Ding D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415789 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature