Empowering Employer Purchasers: Recommendations to Support Market Transparency and Health System Performance
Center staff discuss how employers and purchasers must be equipped with usable health care market data and enabled to use such information effectively.
Read MoreEnding Health Care’s Affordability Crisis Begins With Actions to Fix State Markets
Caroline Pearson emphasizes the benefits of states being able to more easily engage with local employers, healthcare providers, and payers.
Read MorePeterson Center on Healthcare Co-signs Open Letter to Advance Site-Neutral Payment and Billing Transparency Reforms
The Center joined 28 organizations in signing an open letter urging Congress to advance site-neutral payment and billing transparency reforms.
Read MoreStates Setting Health Care Spending Growth Targets Experienced Accelerated Growth in 2021
This article examines health care spending growth trends and the key factors driving those trends in 5 states in 2021.
Read MoreMinnesota Takes Steps to Open the “Black Box” of Health Care Spending Amid Industry Opposition
Minnesota has established a center for healthcare affordability as part of a landmark healthcare bill.
Read MorePeterson Center on Healthcare Announces a $1.7 Million Grant to Washington State Health Care Authority to Identify and Address Drivers of Healthcare Cost Growth
The Center announced a $1.7 million grant to the Washington State Health Care Authority to support a new partnership with IHME.
Read MorePeterson Center on Healthcare and Milbank Memorial Fund Expand Partnership to Improve Healthcare Affordability
The Milbank Memorial Fund has received a $2.7 million grant from the Peterson Center on Healthcare.
Read MoreHow States Are Holding Payers and Providers Accountable for Health Cost Growth
States implementing cost growth targets may need to strengthen how they hold payers and providers accountable for meeting them.
Read MoreThe Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark and Accountability Mechanisms: Stakeholder Perspectives
This report includes lessons and considerations for state policymakers about the design and use of accountability mechanisms to meet cost growth benchmarks.
Read MoreWhat Is Driving Health Care Spending Upward in States With Cost Growth Targets?
Six states participating in the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs have established per capita cost growth targets.
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