[HTML][HTML] Prices paid to hospitals by private health plans are high relative to Medicare and vary widely: findings from an employer-led transparency initiative

C White, CM Whaley - Rand health quarterly, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Large price discrepancies exist between what private health plans pay for hospital services
and what Medicare pays. RAND Corporation researchers used data from three sources …

Hospital Prices For Commercial Plans Are Twice Those For Medicare Advantage Plans When Negotiated By The Same Insurer: Study compares commercial-to …

MK Meiselbach, Y Wang, J Xu, G Bai, GF Anderson - Health Affairs, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
Most major insurers operate in both the commercial health insurance and Medicare
Advantage (MA) markets. We investigated the ratio of commercial-to-MA prices negotiated …

The industrial organization of health care markets

B Handel, K Ho - Handbook of industrial organization, 2021 - Elsevier
In this chapter we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze
competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply …

Do insurers with greater market power negotiate consistently lower prices for hospital care? Evidence from hospital price transparency data

Y Wang, MK Meiselbach, J Xu, G Bai… - … Care Research and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined if greater insurer market power was associated with consistently lower
negotiated prices within each hospital for 44 shoppable and emergency procedures, using …

Price transparency implementation: accessibility of hospital chargemasters and variation in hospital pricing after CMS mandate

AJ Lu, EM Chen, E Vutam, J Brandt, P Sadda - Healthcare, 2020 - Elsevier
Background National regulations have increasingly focused on transparency in hospital
billing and pricing practices. A January 2019 federal mandate required hospitals to publicize …

Price dispersion in an online health marketplace: Evidence from telemedicine services in China

J **ang, TC Cheng, H Fu, W Yip - Economics Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Online health care marketplaces have emerged with the adoption of telemedicine during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Despite its readily available information on price and quality, we …

Negotiated Rates for Surgical Cancer Care in the Era of Price Transparency—Prices Reflect Market Competition

DH Rochlin, NM Rizk, E Matros, TH Wagner… - Annals of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To measure commercial price variation for cancer surgery within and across
hospitals. Background: Surgical care for solid-organ tumors is costly, and negotiated …

Hospital resource allocation decisions when market prices exceed Medicare prices

Y Wang, G Anderson - Health services research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine nonprofit hospitals' financial and spending allocations when the
private sector payment rate is higher than the Medicare's payment rate. Data Sources …

[HTML][HTML] Sources of specialist physician fee variation: Evidence from Australian health insurance claims data

J Yong, AG Elshaug, SJ Mendez, KH Prang, A Scott - Health policy, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores the variation in specialist physician fees and examines whether the
variation can be attributed to patient risk factors, variation between physicians, medical …

Alternative payment models and physician treatment decisions: Evidence from lower back pain

Y Ding, C Liu - Journal of Health Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The capitated payment model has been used to address the high cost of health care. Under
capitation, physicians are compensated with a fixed amount per patient, regardless of the …