Market Concentration
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WLRN: ‘InHospitable’ documentary follows the rising cost of healthcare at hospitals after mergers
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Read more: WLRN: ‘InHospitable’ documentary follows the rising cost of healthcare at hospitals after mergersHCCI’s research on market consolidation was mentioned in an interview with the director of a documentary about hospital mergers. From the article: “There’s this great website called the Health Care Cost Institute, and they have a great interactive tool where you can go and see how consolidated each health care region is all around the country.” Delray…
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Health Affairs: Regulating Hospital Prices Based On Market Concentration Is Likely To Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected
Tags: Market ConcentrationRead more: Health Affairs: Regulating Hospital Prices Based On Market Concentration Is Likely To Leave High-Price Hospitals UnaffectedAbstract Concern about high hospital prices for commercially insured patients has motivated several proposals to regulate these prices. Such proposals often limit regulations to highly concentrated hospital markets. Using a large sample of 2017 US commercial insurance claims, we demonstrate that under the market definition commonly used in these proposals, most high-price hospitals are in…
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Washington Monthly: The Hospital Industry’s No Good, Very Bad Day
Read more: Washington Monthly: The Hospital Industry’s No Good, Very Bad DayHCCI’s Healthy Marketplace Index report was cited in Washington Monthly’s article on congressional hearings related to hospital consolidation. From the article: “While the legislation Klobuchar and others are championing may well slow the pace of future merger activity, it won’t do much to unwind the already deep and damaging level of concentration in the health…
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Modern Healthcare: Meet the new dominant player in one hot healthcare market
Read more: Modern Healthcare: Meet the new dominant player in one hot healthcare marketHCCI’s HMI Concentration Index was cited in Modern Healthcare’s article on Atlanta’s health care market. From the article: “The Health Care Cost Institute ranked Atlanta as one of the most competitive markets in the country, coming in as the 108th least concentrated out of 124 U.S. markets.” Piedmont Healthcare grabs market share in back-to-back hospital…
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Health Affairs: The Hospital Industry Is In A Financial Mess: We Have A Unique Opportunity To Fix It
Read more: Health Affairs: The Hospital Industry Is In A Financial Mess: We Have A Unique Opportunity To Fix ItHCCI’s research on hospital market concentration was featured on the Health Affairs blog. From the article: “Economists have long worried about the growth in hospital concentration. A 2019 study by the Health Care Cost Institute showed that the percentage of metro regions with hospital markets defined as highly concentrated based on Department of Justice criteria rose…
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Health Affairs: Private Equity and Powerful Physician Groups Raise Another Distraction
Read more: Health Affairs: Private Equity and Powerful Physician Groups Raise Another DistractionHCCI data on market concentration was mentioned in a Health Affairs blog post. From the article: “Before we even get into the merits and effects of Congress’ fix for surprise billing, it’s worth noting that the status quo is bad for networks. Most markets—particularly in urban areas—are highly concentrated, giving providers such as hospitals and…
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The New York Times: High Medical Bills Are at Center of Hospital Group’s Trial
Read more: The New York Times: High Medical Bills Are at Center of Hospital Group’s TrialHCCI research on market concentration was mentioned in a New York Times article. From the article: “Sutter is hardly the only mega-system in the country. Nearly three-quarters of metropolitan areas were considered highly concentrated hospital markets in 2016, according to a recent analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit group.” High Medical Bills Are…
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Bloomberg: Big Hospitals Are Getting Bigger, Pushing U.S. Prices Higher
Read more: Bloomberg: Big Hospitals Are Getting Bigger, Pushing U.S. Prices HigherHCCI’s Hospital Concentration Index was featured in a report in Bloomberg. From the article: “The report relied on a measure commonly used in antitrust analysis that gauges how concentrated a market is based on the market share of competitors. It measured only the market for inpatient admissions, so it doesn’t reflect other services such as outpatient…
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NBER: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured
Tags: Commercially Insured, Inpatient Spending, Market Concentration, NBER, Outpatient Spending, Peer Reviewed Journals
Read more: NBER: The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately InsuredABSTRACT: We use insurance claims data covering 28 percent of individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance in the US to study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-hospital contracts, and analyze the variation in hospital prices across the nation. Health spending per privately insured beneficiary differs by a factor of…
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Health Affairs: Understanding Health Spending – Lessons From The Healthy Marketplace Index
Read more: Health Affairs: Understanding Health Spending – Lessons From The Healthy Marketplace IndexHEALTH AFFAIRS BLOG: “As policymakers consider actions to address challenges with the Affordable Care Act and ongoing growth in health spending, the importance of understanding local health care market dynamics is more important than ever. Traditionally, policy makers and other stakeholders have evaluated commercial health care markets’ total spending and often attributed high spending to…