State Spotlight: Texas Confronts Anti-Competitive Tactics That Drive Up Health Care Costs
Texans are struggling to manage high and rising health care costs. In their latest State Spotlight, ...
Corporatization of Health Care
As corporations and private equity increasingly take control of our health care systems and profits take precedence over care, patients are caught in the middle. Our team of nationally recognized experts investigates policy solutions to improve the affordability of health insurance and promote a high-quality healthcare system that works for consumers and patients.
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Our experts at CHIR conduct research to assess the impact of federal and state policies to reduce costs and foster healthcare competition on consumers, patients, providers, and payers. We provide unbiased, relevant, and timely information, analysis, and technical assistance to policymakers, regulators, and stakeholders seeking a marketplace where consumers have access to affordable and high quality healthcare coverage.
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A Menu for Health Care Affordability: How States are Delivering Savings Through Hospital Price Regulation
Rising health care spending has led states to employ different approaches to price regulation. In th...
Untangling the Complex Web: Summary of a New Expert Perspective
The health care market has seen significant vertical and horizontal integration of health care provi...
September-October Research Roundup
This fall, as leaves changed, election season heated up, and open enrollment approached, we dove int...
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How Hospital Finances Shape Care and Costs in Your Community
Hospitals provide essential care, but their financial realities differ dramatically: some opera...
Why Health Care Costs Are Rising: The Role of Corporatization and Bipartisan Solutions to Increase Affordability
For-profit entities are buying up health care practices and insurers, and corporate strategies aimed...
The Corporate Transformation of Health Care Webinar 3: How Policymakers Can Curb Harmful Practices
Want to explore policy options to address the problems caused by increased health care corporatizati...
The Corporate Transformation of Health Care Webinar 2: What’s Driving this Trend
Interested in understanding how your state is impacted by corporatization in health care and how you...
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What to Ask (About) a Hospital
Through a collection of fact-sheets on hospital payment streams, various designations, and key sources of information, this guide offers a starting point to understand the organizational and financial differences across hospitals in the United States.
The Complex Web of Health Care Financial Interests and Their Implications for Ever Higher Spending: An Expert Perspective
Achieving cost containment in healthcare requires an understanding of the complex, often opaque, financial relationships now systemically connecting private insurers, providers, and middlemen businesses, and which are characterized by cost increasing incentives, conflicts of interests, and money flows unrelated to value or quality of care for patients.
Protecting Consumers From the Corporate Transformation of Health Care
As corporations and private equity increasingly take control of our health care systems and profits take precedence over care, patients are caught in the middle.