Health Affairs October 4, 2024
Emily Schneider, Sheela Ranganathan

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Policy makers have been grappling with how to constrain the rising commercial prices and growing inequities resulting from health care provider consolidation. Many states are considering and enacting variations of transaction review laws to limit these anticompetitive effects of health care transactions and arrangements. On May...

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