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cord-035012-9r8hlwyd	Rhyan, Corwin	Tracking the U.S. health sector: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	2020-11-09		.txt	text/plain	5898	240	56	While traditional federal government data such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment and price data, and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) GDP and National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) data, do include a health care component, health economists and policymakers most frequently cite and follow the data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) annual National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA; available at https :// www.cms.gov/Resea rch-Stati stics -Data-and-Syste ms/Stati stics -Trend s-and-Repor ts/Natio nalHe althE xpend Data). To fill the need for more timely tracking of the health economy, we developed (with the assistance of other current and former Altarum experts) the publicly available Health Sector Economic Indicators SM (HSEI; available at https ://altar um.org/solut ion/healt h-secto r-spend ing), a set of metrics and associated data briefs that provide preliminary health spending estimates on a monthly basis, while benchmarking to the CMS NHEA health categories and historical estimates.	./cache/cord-035012-9r8hlwyd.txt	./txt/cord-035012-9r8hlwyd.txt