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| "I’ve been in this field almost 50 years, and I’ve never seen a local government regulating hospital prices. Of course, you could cut rates too much and harm hospitals financially. But if done with intelligence, you could accomplish some price reduction without harming quality.” | ||
| -Paul Ginsburg, Director of Public Policy at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California |
| In 2017, 34% of
U.S. health care payments, representing approximately 226.3
million Americans and 77% of the covered population, flowed
through Categories 3&4 models. In each market, Categories 3&4
payments accounted for: Commercial (28.3%); Medicare Advantage
(49.5%); Medicare FFS (38.3%); and Medicaid (25%). Source: Health Care Payment Learning Action Network |
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Pfizer CEO: 'Business as normal' on drug prices next
year The Hill, October 30, 2018 ObamaCare enrollment unlikely to increase in 2019 The Hill, October 30, 2018 Blue Cross wants to reward hospitals — for keeping patients out of hospitals Boston Globe, October 29, 2018 Lucrative Drug Trials Prompt Regional Hospitals to Join Forces Bloomberg, October 29, 2018 New Drug Pricing Model Could Save Medicare Part B $17.2 Billion HealthPayer Intelligence, October 29, 2018 Health-Care Companies Pour $46.7 Million Into Midterm Vote Bloomberg, October 29, 2018 Booming Economy Helps Flatten Medicaid Enrollment And Limit Costs Kaiser Health News, October 25, 2018 Medicare Advantage Plans Proliferate in 2019, Raising Competition HealthPayer Intelligence, October 22, 2018 Marketplace Subsidies May Be Option In 2020 For Plans That Skirt Obamacare Kaiser Health News, October 22, 2018 AP analysis: 'Obamacare' shapes opioid grant spending AP via ABC News, October 22, 2018 |
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In California, Novel Initiatives Test Cities’ Power
To Tame Health Costs Kaiser Health News, October 29, 2018 A Sense of Alarm as Rural Hospitals Keep Closing The New York Times, October 29, 2018 Why Trump’s Medicare Plan Won’t Cut Prices Anytime Soon The Fiscal Times, October 26, 2018 How Repeal of the Individual Mandate is Affecting 2019 Premiums Kaiser Family Foundation, October 26, 2018 Understanding how price growth affected areas differently across the country Health Care Cost Institute, October 24, 2018 A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the Industry Is Rattled Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2018 |
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