While I was on vacation, I published two pieces elsewhere. On hospital mergers and prices with Elsa Pearson in the Providence Journal: “Mergers are often
It was at the 2009 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Chicago that I learned about accountable care organizations (ACOs). The day after leaving the meeting, I
It’s the clash of titans. In January the Massachusetts the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) — the state agency that provides health insurance to nearly a
Recent NBER publications by Laurence Baker, M. Kate Bundorf, and Daniel Kessler: 1) “The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice“: We find that a
The following was originally posted on the AcademyHealth blog earlier this year. In 2010, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley published a report on health care cost
The following appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2014, The New York Times Company). Another hospital system wants to buy another health insurance company, and consumers may well wonder
To what do we attribute high hospital prices? I’ve got some answers from new and recent work on the AcademyHealth blog. @afrakt
Certificate of need (CON) legislation exists in more than two-thirds of the states. Why? What’s it good for? For those not in the know, CON
This is a complete and total smack-down of Partners ambitions to acquire South Shore Hospital (SSH) and Harbor Medical Associates: Cost Impact: Over time, for
The complexity of this undertaking highlights a fundamental enforcement reality. If it’s this hard for regulators to demonstrate why a patently worrisome acquisition should be
David Cutler and Fiona Scott Morton point to another limitation of provider consolidation and integration, such as that promoted by Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Another
A very interesting chart from a new Booze & Co. report (PDF) and via Sarah Kliff: Click on over the to Kliff or the report
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