A patient-led process for comparing actual bills to data reported under the hospital price transparency rule would help the ...

Harrison (Harry) Koos is a PhD candidate in health policy (health economics track) at Stanford University. His research focuses on transparency and competition in markets for hospital services.

This shift could improve care coordination and create opportunities for cost savings through enhanced formulary flexibility ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Maughan of Brown University about his paper exploring how commercial insurers paid more for procedures at hospital outpatient departments as compared to ...

Under FDA regulations, suspension is not the end of the process. Unless a license holder voluntarily relinquishes its license ...

This Forefront article details the proposed changes to Medicaid eligibility and financing, the anticipated outcomes for ...

Hospitals across the country—particularly those operating emergency departments—face a mounting storm of legal, operational, ...

After four years, federal price transparency rules have revealed a meaningful number of prices. But they’ve revealed ...

The medical loss ratio drives higher premiums and higher medical care spending and presents other unintended consequences ...

Randolph W. Pate is founder of Randolph Pate Advisors LLC, a Washington, DC-area consultancy providing strategic guidance to insurers, providers, technology comp ...

Among the flurry of executive orders (EOs) issued by President Trump as his first hundred days in office drew to a close are two taking aim at the high cost of prescription drugs. For many ideas in ...

John Allison is senior associate director of health analytics and policy at the American Hospital Association (AHA). He specializes in translating complex data sets ...