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Policy in Action: Advancing Healthcare Affordability Through Strategic Engagement
In this letter, the Center’s Executive Director Caroline Pearson outlines recent policy engagements to advance healthcare affordability.
Peterson Center on Healthcare Adds Senior Health Policy Experts to Its Staff
Andrea Ducas and Ellen Lukens both have extensive expertise in healthcare and in the processes and policies that facilitate efficient care delivery.
Policy in Action: Advancing Healthcare Affordability Through Strategic Engagement
In this letter, the Center’s Executive Director Caroline Pearson outlines recent policy engagements to advance healthcare affordability.
Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
The Center offers recommendations to strengthen hospital price transparency, advance site-neutral payment policy, and improve Medicare Advantage data reporting.
Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The Center offers recommendations to align Medicare payments with clinical value, advance digital mental health treatment, and promote high-value digital health tools.
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Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
The Center offers recommendations to strengthen hospital price transparency, advance site-neutral payment policy, and improve Medicare Advantage data reporting.
Center Responds to CMS Proposed Rule on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The Center offers recommendations to align Medicare payments with clinical value, advance digital mental health treatment, and promote high-value digital health tools.
Center Responds to RFI on Hospital Price Transparency
The Center offers recommendations to strengthen hospital pricing transparency, establish clearer compliance standards, and enhance market competition through better healthcare data.
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How much does insurance cost for a family in 2025?
Executive Director Caroline Pearson spoke with USA TODAY about how inflated healthcare costs strain employers and employees alike.
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.
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.
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.
PBGH Launches Groundbreaking Healthcare Data Project
The PBGH Health Care Data Project is supported by a grant from the Peterson Center on Healthcare.
Why Americans pay so much more for healthcare in 2024
Executive Director Caroline Pearson reflects on why Americans continue to pay more for healthcare each year in USA TODAY.
Employers Require More Help to Improve Healthcare Affordability
Caroline Pearson writes in Bloomberg Law that ERISA reform is essential to ensuring that employees can access affordable healthcare.