Advancing data transparency
Hidden Prices, Hidden Costs
Data has the power to improve healthcare market competition by delivering better information about prices, spending, utilization, and outcomes.
Employers and policymakers need more and better data, as well as the expertise and analytic tools to make sense of it, to identify, call out, and correct failures in healthcare markets and adopt smarter, more effective policies and regulations.
Market Competition and Policy Solutions
Transparency is foundational to competitive healthcare markets, smart policies, and accessible, quality care.
The Center and its partners seek to equip health care purchasers and federal and state policymakers with the necessary price, utilization, quality, and financial data to inform their decision-making and promote competitive, productive negotiations between providers and payers.
We are advancing the development of analytic tools to boost transparency, and working with partners to build safe, integrated data collection and information systems that are timely and easily accessible.
Our goal is to improve and restore the potential of market competition and regulatory guardrails to enhance the quality of patient care and reduce healthcare spending.
Our Projects
Featured Project
Data Transparency Action Plan for Employers and Purchasers
The Peterson Center on Healthcare is partnering with Manatt Health to research what employers and other private sector healthcare purchasers need from a national healthcare data infrastructure resource, and to develop an action plan for employer and purchaser engagement.
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.
Center Staff Testifies Before Congress on Data Access to Strengthen ERISA and Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits
Mairin Mancino testified before Congress regarding the importance of data access to strengthen ERISA and employer-sponsored health benefits.
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.