Health Affairs June 16, 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.
This spring, several states, including Connecticut, Oregon, and Rhode Island, are releasing new data tracking just how fast health care spending has been rising. So far, the data have been eye opening. Per capita health care spending in Connecticut rose by 8.0 percent from 2022 to...







