Faced with surging hospital costs and mounting pressure on household budgets, Oregon officials are mulling a hard cap on commercial insurance payments to hospitals in hopes of controlling costs. The ...

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A growing shift of patients receiving care in costlier settings is contributing to the ongoing rise in health care spending.

Some top health insurance executives are slated to testify on Capitol Hill (this) week as part of a broader effort to examine healthcare costs. For years, the AHA has highlighted the negative impact ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Every year tens of millions of Americans dig deep into their pocketbooks to pay for health insurance plans that will cover both preventive and necessary care for individuals and families. The premiums ...