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Publication Topic
Publication
December 2024 Grace Flaherty,
Policy Points Attributing spending to provider organizations is challenging for insurers due to incomplete information on clinician… 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
April 2024 Nathan Pauly, Lauren Sears, Amy Zhan, Kevin McAvey, Sarah Kinsler, Peter Hayes, Christopher Romero-Gutierrez, Michael Bailit,
A new series of Peterson-Milbank analytics support resources offers insight into how to use publicly available data sources to examine the financial condition of hospitals, as well as identify opportunities to reduce health care spending growth while avoiding any unintended consequences that might result. More
Event
March 2024
Join a Peterson-Milbank for Sustainable Health Care Program webinar, Leveraging Hospital Financial Analyses to Inform State Policy, on April 9, 2024, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET, for a look at the forthcoming “Guide to Hospital Financial Analyses,” and a discussion with state leaders who are using this data to inform their understanding of their health care markets and potential policy responses. More
June 2021 Jennifer Sayles, MD, MPH, Deepti Kanneganti, Michael Bailit,
States with health care cost growth targets (or benchmarks) need to perform analyses on data collected from payers and providers to identify factors driving health care spending levels and health care spending growth. This report presents an analytic framework for analyses that monitor impact of the target, as well as a series of 11 recommended standard reports. More
