Health Affairs November 25, 2025
Stacey Pogue, Abigail Knapp

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.

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

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