Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Services: Household consumption expenditures (for services): Health care (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Indices
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to data on the U.S. economy released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the price index for the item "Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Services: Household consumption expenditures (for services): Health care" was 122.39 in December 2025, versus 122.36 in November 2025. This constitutes an increase of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 804 data points in the monthly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 1959 to December 2025.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: the price index had a mean value of 52.51; it hit a peak of 122.39 in December 2025; it hit a trough of 5.44 in January 1959.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Index |
|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 122.039 |
| 2025-11-30 | 122.359 |
| 2025-12-31 | 122.388 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE): Services: Household consumption expenditures (for services): Health care |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Prices |
| Data type | Fisher price index |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | Index (2017 = 100) |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Index |
| Source | Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) |
| Source type | National statistical agency |
| Data licence | Open data |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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Main index
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price index for: Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
Detail
Supplementary indices
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price index for: PCE excluding food and energy (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: PCE excluding food, energy, and housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: Energy goods and services (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: PCE services excluding energy and housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: Housing (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 804 | 1959-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: Market-based PCE (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 468 | 1987-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |
| Price index for: Market-based PCE excluding food and energy (index) - United States - BEA - Monthly | 468 | 1987-01-31 | 2025-12-31 |