Improving healthcare affordability in the United States
As patients, families, employees, and taxpayers, we are paying too much for our healthcare compared to other nations and our health outcomes are no better. The Peterson Center on Healthcare identifies and promotes promising solutions to help make healthcare more affordable, efficient, and effective.
News & Views
Evolving Remote Monitoring: An Evidence-Based Approach to Coverage and Payment
The Center’s report highlights opportunities to better align payment to value.
Health Spending Issues to Watch This Year
A new brief from the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker outlines federal and state-level health spending issues to watch throughout 2025.
New Report Outlines Policy Recommendations for Remote Health Technologies
Report provides new guidance for policymakers regarding coverage and payment for remote monitoring technologies.
Unlocking Healthcare’s Black Box: Why Trump’s New Transparency Order Matters for Employers and Consumers
The administration’s executive order is an opportunity to realize transparency’s potential in more functional and efficient healthcare markets.
Why Hospital Price Transparency Is Essential to Improving Employee Benefits
Mairin Mancino discusses how better pricing data can improve employer benefits while lowering costs and enhancing care.
Helping Employers and Consumers Evaluate the Cost and Quality of Healthcare Services
The Center offers recommendations to improve hospital price transparency, strengthen employer access to claims data, and leverage transparency for competition, choice, and efficiency.
Improving Price Transparency Data: Recommendations From Practice
In Health Affairs, researcher David Muhlestein highlights the challenges of analyzing payer price data and provides recommendations to unlock this data’s full potential.
Challenges with Effective Price Transparency Analyses
This Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker price transparency analysis examines how to interpret healthcare pricing data and its effects on comparing service prices.