Health Affairs February 27, 2025
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 2025. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
The primary driver of growing commercial health care spending in the US is rising prices, driven in part by consolidation and the formation of “megaproviders.” New data from Oregon suggest that price limits referenced to traditional Medicare rates can be an effective solution with a light...
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