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Health Care Cost Growth Target Data Analysis

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  • Not Just Squeezing the Balloon: A Comprehensive Set of State Strategies for Addressing Health Care Cost  

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    Not Just Squeezing the Balloon: A Comprehensive Set of State Strategies for Addressing Health Care Cost  

    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

  • Guides to Hospital Financial Analysis

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    Guides to Hospital Financial Analysis

    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

  • Webinar on Using Hospital Financial Analysis to Inform Policies on Affordability and Access

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    Webinar on Using Hospital Financial Analysis to Inform Policies on Affordability and Access

    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

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    A Data Use Strategy for State Action to Address Health Care Cost Growth

    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