Health Affairs August 9, 2024
Chris Deacon, James Gelfand, Peter Goldberger, Shawn Gremminger

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 2023. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Over the past 20 years, the prices of hospital services have grown faster than any other sector of the US economy. Unfortunately, the federal government recently issued a regulation—intended to address underpayment of hospitals by Medicaid—that could push hospital prices higher for 66 percent of the...

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