Coming Soon: FH® Healthcare Indicators and FH® Medical Price Index 2025

March 20, 2025

On March 31, FAIR Health will release the eighth annual edition of two valued measures that provide perspective in a rapidly changing healthcare environment: FH® Healthcare Indicators and FH® Medical Price Index. Drawing on the independent nonprofit’s national database of billions of healthcare claims—the largest in the country—these two measures illuminate different aspects of the national healthcare sector. Both will be presented in a white paper entitled FH® Healthcare Indicators and FH® Medical Price Index 2025: An Annual View of Place of Service Trends and Medical Pricing. All findings will be updated to reflect the latest year of data available.

FH Healthcare Indicators analyze trends involving the place of service where patients receive healthcare. Focusing on alternative places of service—retail clinics, urgent care centers, telehealth and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)—as well as emergency rooms (ERs), FH Healthcare Indicators evaluate changes in utilization, diagnoses, procedures, costs and geographic and demographic factors.

FH Medical Price Index tracks median charges and allowed amounts in six categories of procedures from May 2012 to November 2024: professional evaluation and management (E&M), hospital E&M, medicine, surgery, pathology and laboratory, and radiology. This report does not consider facility fees.

Among the findings to be released in the white paper:

  • From 2022 to 2023, utilization decreased in retail clinics (12 percent), urgent care centers (12 percent), ASCs (7 percent) and telehealth (3 percent).1 Utilization increased four percent in ERs.
  • ERs held the highest percentage of medical claim lines in 2023 among the places of service studied, with 4.3 percent of all medical claim lines nationally. The comparable percentages for the other places of service were 3.8 percent for telehealth, 1.9 percent for urgent care centers, 1.0 percent for ASCs and 0.2 percent for retail clinics. The remainder of the services were rendered in traditional places of service, such as physician offices.
  • Of the six procedure categories, pathology and laboratory had the greatest percent increase in charge amount index, six percent. Hospital E&M, medicine and surgery each had the greatest percent increase in allowed amount index, four percent.


1 Utilization in this study is a relative, normalized measure, not an absolute one. See the Methodology section of the white paper.