A report reveals again how hospitals extort high prices from private health plans.
A Rand Corporation report details payment differences for hospital services among private and public payers.
A Health Affairs study finds that greater hospital concentration is associated with higher insurance premiums on the ACA marketplaces.
An analysis from the Health Care Cost Initiative demonstrates the cost-raising effect of moving services to hospital outpatient departments.
Yawn, another study in Health Affairs showing that hospital prices are an issue for containing health spending.
Gee, what a shock, hospital consolidation, vertical or horizontal doesn’t have significant quality benefits.
Colorado publishes a report outlining hospital cost-shifting in the state.
Rising drug prices are contributing to hospitals’ increased costs of delivering care.
The American Hospital Association claims hospitals are grossly underpaid by Medicare and Medicaid.
A New York Times analysis and article confirms what we already know; when hospitals consolidate health plans and patients pay more.
A study in Health Affairs finds that hospitals charge certain types of payers very high prices.
A report from Kaufman Hall on a survey of hospitals focuses on the status of cost transformation efforts.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has some recommendations for updating Medicare’s hospital quality measurement programs.
CMS released the third annual evaluation of the Maryland all-payer, global budget reimbursement system.
Hospitals post underwhelming purchasing savings following acquisition activity, according to a new paper at NBER.