Webinar #2: Policies to Prevent/Punish Bad Behavior and Empower Market Balancers

In consolidated health care markets (which comprise 90% service areas) powerful health systems can leverage their market power to further stymie competition and skew the playing field. This webinar, second in a series of four, focuses on policies to prevent would-be monopolists from engaging in anticompetitive behavior, impose penalties on those that continue to do so, and protect and preserve the independent actors that remain.

Featuring Aditi P. Sen, Director of Research and Policy at the Health Care Cost Institute and Erin Fuse Brown, the Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Health, and Society at Georgia State University.

Recorded March 21, 2023

Webinar #3: Policies to Regulate Prices

For some states, the best and most viable path to improving health care affordability may be the direct route: regulating provider prices. That doesn’t mean that the only option on the table is to exert complete price control through all-payer rate setting. States might alternatively consider establishing price caps, or applying controls to select sites of service, markets or circumstances. By placing a selective clamp on health care prices, policymakers and regulators hope to create an environment where negotiations between payers and providers proceed on a more even playing field.

This webinar, third in a series of four, focuses on policies for price regulation, organized according to the degree of state oversight, resources and sophistication required to administer them.

Featuring Anna Doar Sinaiko, Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy at Harvard University, Robert A. Berenson, an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center, and Robert Murray, President of Global Health Payment, LLC.

Recorded March 28, 2023

Webinar #4: Policies for Low-Intervention States & Policies to Protect Competition

Some states may lack the resources to pursue complex policy interventions; others may operate in political climates inhospitable to government intervention; a small few may have health care markets that function reasonably well and don’t require major fixes.

This webinar, the final in the series of four, focuses on policies, which, if plotted on a spectrum of “degree of intervention” would land on the lower end of the scale. It also offers strategies for states to protect the erosion of market competition by bolstering and broadening antitrust oversight. Featuring Josephine Porter of the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire and Jaime S. King, the John and Marylyn Mayo Chair in Health Law at the University of Auckland.

Recorded April 4, 2023