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Focus Area
Publication
December 2024 Grace Flaherty,
Policy Points Attributing spending to provider organizations is challenging for insurers due to incomplete information on clinician… More
December 2024
In this Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Cost-sponsored video produced by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser… More
Blog Post
November 2024 Sarah Bartelmann,
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is implementing a mix of transparency, performance improvement plans, and financial penalties to ensure health plans and provider organizations take actions to meet the state’s target. More
October 2024 Sarah Kinsler,
This spring, Delaware took a bold step to mitigate hospital spending growth. HB 350, signed into law in June, creates the Diamond State Hospital Cost… More
October 2024 Elliott S. Fisher, Christopher F. Koller, Carrie H. Colla, Alena Berube,
Abstract Health care is increasingly unaffordable in the United States. While comprehensive, affordable health coverage for middle- and… More
September 2024 Kelsey Koenen Witt,
Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… More
News Article
August 2024
An August 8, 2024, Health Affairs Forefront article by Jessica Mar and January Angeles of Bailit Health on trends in health care cost growth target… More
July 2024 Christine Haran, Mary Louise Gilburg,
In July 2024, eight Washington health plans signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), committing to multipayer primary care transformation. The MOU… More
Event
July 2024
The US health sector is vast, with annual national health expenditures estimated at $5.0 trillion. There is no single source of publicly available… More
July 2024 Roslyn C. Murray, Christopher M. Whaley, Erin C. Fuse Brown, Andrew M. Ryan,
Policy Points States grappling with high and rising health care spending can draw inspiration from the Oregon State Employee Plan’s hospital… More
