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Complacency Slows Aggressive Approaches to Health Care Cost Containment: A...

Consolidation among hospitals and physician practices is driving a steady rise in health care costs. Employers who purchase insurance and the payers that negotiate on their behalf have a limited set of...

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New Georgetown CHIR Report Finds Ability of Insurers, Employers to Respond to...

A new Georgetown CHIR report synthesizing the case studies of 6 health care markets finds that insurers and employer-purchasers have limited tools and incentives to effectively counter the market clout...

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Will Sutter Health Settlement Dampen Provider Systems’ Anti-Competitive...

On October 16, Sutter Health announced that it had reached a tentative agreement to settle the class-action lawsuit against it, which alleged that the system has used its market dominance to drive up...

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Payer-Provider Contract Disputes Dominate Headlines in 2019, With No Signs of...

For several years, we at CHIR have tracked health insurance industry trends by monitoring trade and mass media, Wall Street analyses, earnings, and other reports. In 2019, we observed an increase in...

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February Research Round Up: What We’re Reading

This February, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe reviewed new research on health care costs and utilization, surprise bills after in-network elective surgery, acquisition of physicians by private equity firms, and...

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