Becker's Healthcare June 17, 2021
State employee health plans cite hospital prices as the primary driver of cost, but they rarely negotiate hospital prices during the efforts to curb costs, according to a recent report from Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
State employee health plans said the cost of hospital services beat out drug prices, inappropriate utilization, and physician and ambulatory prices as the primary driver of cost.
The report said state health plans are more likely to go after other forms of health spending when...
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