Health Affairs October 10, 2025
Karen Handorf, Christine H. Monahan, Kennah Watts

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. Health Affairs Forefront alone reviews all submissions then selects, edits, and publishes them only if they meet Forefront’s editorial standards.

On July 17, 2025, Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bipartisan bill entitled the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act designed to make...

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