Health Affairs January 28, 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.
State employee health plans (SEHPs) have wrapped up their open enrollment periods for plan year 2025. Many state workers got some bad news about hefty premium hikes in the process. Like other employer health plans across the commercial insurance market, SEHPs are facing significant increases in...