Health Affairs July 31, 2024
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.
Steward Health Care, the nation’s largest private, for-profit hospital chain, filed for bankruptcy in May 2024, resulting in one of the largest health care provider bankruptcies in decades. This action has left patients and employees of Steward’s 31 hospitals in communities across eight states worried about...