Healthcare Innovation December 10, 2024
Researchers: state employee health plans can safely impose hospital price caps
A team of researchers at Brown University, writing in the December issue of Health Affairs, is arguing that state employee health plans could institute payment caps that would save a great deal of money while not harming hospitals.
Roslyn C. Murray, Christopher M. Whaley, Erin C. Fuse Brown, and Andrew M. Ryan, writing under the headline “Hospital Payment Caps Could Save State Employee Health Plans Millions While Keeping Hospital Margins Healthy,” assert that “State employee health plans are consuming an ever-larger portion of state budgets because of rising health insurance premiums. Often the largest purchaser of commercial health insurance in their state, state employee health plans possess a unique...
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