50 States Enacting Health Care Policy; One Searchable Database
June 22, 2020
Health care is local, and so are laws impacting health care cost and quality. If the health care system weren’t…
PRICE TRANSPARENCY
We graded all 50 states on price transparency. What’s next?
May 19, 2020
Price transparency is one lever to ease the burden of rising costs, especially in today’s context where health care costs…
Zach Brown on the impact of accessible price transparency
May 11, 2020
Suzanne Delbanco chats with Zach Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Zach Brown used a…
Gloria Sachdev on hospital-level price transparency
April 30, 2019
Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco chats with Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, President and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana. They…
Using Policy Levers to Drive Change: A Last Resort?
February 26, 2019
Let’s face it. Something has got to give. While employers and health care purchasers have long tried to implement market-based…
Maryland and California’s Efforts to Combat Rising Prescription Drug Costs
August 21, 2018
Can states combat rising prescription drug costs? The rising costs of prescription drugs is a high priority for patients, providers,…
Niall Brennan on latest trends and analysis from the Health Care Cost Institute
June 25, 2018
Suzanne catches up with Niall Brennan, President and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), to ask the tough…
Revolutionary: An interactive data tool on health care spending
May 29, 2018
Data is beautiful, even when you’re looking at a monstrous thing like the $2.10 trillion dollars spent in U.S. health…
Health Care Inspiration in Unlikely Places
May 01, 2018
Can health care take a page from SpotHero’s playbook? CPR’s office is in the city of Berkeley, California, near the…
Would you choose a hospital based on its Yelp review? Maybe you should.
March 20, 2018
“Have you checked out that place? It has a five-star review on Yelp” Without the context, you’d probably assume someone…