Health Affairs August 17, 2023
Mark Katz Meiselbach, Yang Wang, Jianhui Xu, Ge Bai, and Gerard F. Anderson

Abstract

Most major insurers operate in both the commercial health insurance and Medicare Advantage (MA) markets. We investigated the ratio of commercial-to-MA prices negotiated by the same insurer, in the same hospital and for the same services, using 2022 price information disclosed by hospitals in compliance with the hospital price transparency rule. Insurers negotiated median hospital prices for commercial plans that were two to three times higher than their MA prices in the same hospital for the same service. The median commercial-to-MA price ratio in the same hospital varied,...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Insurance, Medicare Advantage, Payer, Pricing / Spending, Provider
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