A May 4 guest essay published in The New York Times frames hospitals as the leading “culprit” behind rising health care costs. It reduces a complex health care system and a much-need conversation on ...

Some hospitals were able to outperform others in a commercial insurer episode-based incentive program, but there was little evidence of global reductions in episode spending. Objectives: To evaluate ...

Ge Bai ([email protected]) is an associate professor of accounting in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, in Baltimore, Maryland. Gerard F. Anderson is a professor in the Department of Health ...

Commercial insurers are charged two to three times more than what the same payer’s Medicare Advantage plans are charged for the same procedure in the same hospital, according to a study published Aug.

In-network facility price data disclosed under the Transparency in Coverage rule appear to be comparable to data from the Marketscan claims database and to data disclosed under the Hospital Price ...