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Pinpointing Performance: Improving Health Care Cost Growth Target Attribution Reporting for Providers
State health care cost growth target programs aim to control health care spending by setting an annual goal for the maximum rate at which health care costs should increase that is tied to income and/or economic growth. In addition to reporting spending growth at the state, insurer market, and individual insurer levels, states with cost growth target programs report spending growth for large provider organizations, such as health systems and hospitals. Reporting on provider organization cost growth is an important strategy for keeping providers accountable for constraining spending growth. However, accurately attributing spending to these large provider entities can be challenging. More
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Why Policies to Improve Health Care Affordability Are Important for Employers
In this Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Cost-sponsored video produced by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser… More
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Oregon’s Cost Growth Target: Balancing Payer and Health System Accountability with Flexibility
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
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Delaware Takes Bold Action to Improve Health Care Affordability
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
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Not Just Squeezing the Balloon: A Comprehensive Set of State Strategies for Addressing Health Care Cost
Abstract Health care is increasingly unaffordable in the United States. While comprehensive, affordable health coverage for middle- and… More
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The Power of Partnership: Utah’s Approach to Affordable, Accessible, High-Quality Health Care
Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… More
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Prescription Drugs Drove 2022 Spending in Cost Growth Target States
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
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How Payment Caps Can Reduce Hospital Prices and Spending: Lessons from the Oregon State Employee Plan
Policy Points States grappling with high and rising health care spending can draw inspiration from the Oregon State Employee Plan’s hospital… More
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What Legislators Need to Know About Hospitals and Health Care Affordability
Drawing on the Peterson-Milbank hospital financial analysis guides, this slide deck explains how rising hospital spending is driving health care… More
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Health Care Spending in Rhode Island Stayed Under Growth Target
Rhode Island met its health care cost growth target in 2022, according to the 2024 health care spending and quality report released by the Office of the Health Insurance Commission (OHIC) at a public hearing earlier this month. More