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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
Publication
August 2024 Vinayak Sinha, Emma Rourke, Mary Jo Condon,
This report discusses states’ use cases for a standardized approach to measuring behavioral health spending and considerations for implementation, leveraging recommendations for a standard methodology published in a previous Milbank report. 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
News Article
July 2024
Drawing on the Peterson-Milbank hospital financial analysis guides, this slide deck explains how rising hospital spending is driving health care… More
October 2022
See the The Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark and Accountability Mechanisms landing page to review all related… More
Supported by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Gates Ventures, this study (1) examined the influence of the benchmark and the HPC’s accountability mechanisms on the motivation and actions by state agencies, payers, and providers to control health care cost growth, and (2) identified lessons and considerations about the design and use of accountability tools for other states implementing similar initiatives. More
