HEALTHCARE COSTS
How to fix our hospital pricing problem (and how not to)
Guest Author April 15, 2015
By Guest Blogger: Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPH We are pleased to publish another excellent post by Professor Fuse Brown, originally published here by the Center for Law, Health & Society! The post: Last month, Slate columnist Reihan Salam wrote a provocative article about outrageous hospital prices that are driven, according to Salam, by greed, avarice, and market power. Salam gets a few things dead right, namely his diagnosis that we have a massive hospital pricing problem that is bleeding us dry and that the problem is largely caused by growing hospital market power. However, he misses the …
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March Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor April 1, 2015
It’s been a big month in health law! King v. Burwell was argued before the Supreme Court, the House voted to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR), a two-year CHIP extension was passed, and the Supreme Court held that physicians did not have the right to sue state Medicaid programs for greater reimbursements in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center. While you were busy reading about these and countless other developments in our ever changing healthcare system, quite a bit has been published related to healthcare prices and competition. This month’s …
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October Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 31, 2014
Happy Halloween! October’s roundup focuses on articles examining hospital pricing as well as the new trend toward reference pricing. We’ll also take a peek at a couple of articles on hospital consolidation. Nothing too scary here! Let’s start with hospital pricing. Erin Fuse Brown, Associate Professor at Georgia State University College of Law, published Irrational Hospital Pricing in the Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy earlier this month. Fuse Brown demonstrates the deep irrationality found in most hospital’s chargemaster charges, and then responds to the numerous claims that hospital …
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Articles & Reports Roundup August 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor September 1, 2014
As a lifetime student turned professor, the end of August always makes my heart beat a little quicker as school returns to session. So if you are also looking for a few things to get your brain moving again after the lazy days of summer, check out these articles! First and foremost, Stephanie Alessi, UC Hastings alum and current fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, published Making the Competition for Healthcare Dollars a Fair Fight: The Role of Antitrust Law in Improving Efficiency in the U.S. Healthcare Marketin …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup: June 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 30, 2014
Articles and Reports Round Up: June 2014 Greetings! In this installment of the Articles and Reports Round Up are the Source’s pick reads from the academic literature and policy reports from June 2014. Academic Articles Health Affairs’ June issue, titled The Economics of Health Care: Costs, Savings, and Value (be still our hearts), had two lead articles on healthcare consolidation and costs (Ginsburg and Pawlson, and Sage) followed by two commentaries. All four are well worth reading. Paul Ginsburg and Gregory Pawlson’s article, Seeking Lower Prices Where Providers Are Consolidated: An …
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What Academics & Policy Analysts are Saying About Healthcare Cost and Competition
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 5, 2014
In this inaugural Academic Articles and Reports Roundup, we highlight some of the most relevant academic articles and reports on healthcare cost and competition published since January 2014. Going forward, we will publish a Roundup each month to highlight the “must read” articles and reports from that month. The Academic Articles and Reports pages on the site also have links to relevant articles and reports dating back to January 2013. Academic Articles In this issue of the Academic Roundup, we first highlight two health services research articles and one …
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