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State officials operating cost growth target programs set a target, or benchmark, value for cost growth in collaboration with stakeholders to create a sustainable health care cost growth goal for everyone to work toward. For the most part, states have tied their targets to measures of the larger economy, so future health care cost growth does not exceed overall state economic growth, and to a measure of household finances such as income growth. The values for 2024 and beyond, and links to the latest performance reports if available, are shown in the table below. Updated March 2025.
