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Blog Post
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
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
September 2024 Kelsey Koenen Witt,
Throughout the country, rising health care costs are constraining employer profits, decreasing employee wages, and crowding out other state spending… More
News Article
August 2024
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
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
July 2024
Drawing on the Peterson-Milbank hospital financial analysis guides, this slide deck explains how rising hospital spending is driving health care… More
May 2024
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
May 2024 Martha Hostetter,
This series of state profiles shows how each state in the Peterson-Milbank program has approached one or two of the cost growth target program implementation activities. More
April 2024 Matthew Reynolds, Alyssa Vangeli,
Over the last few years, health care cost growth target states had to make difficult decisions about whether and how the dramatic increase in inflation should impact existing cost growth target values and/or the process and methodology for setting new cost growth target values. More
April 2024 Michael Bailit,
A table showing state target values for 2024 and beyond, as available. More
