Join Health AffairsDecember 4 for a virtual event on the current uses of hospital and insurer price transparency data and efforts to improve their usability and reliability.
Numerous studies show that employer plans pay providers significantly more than Medicare.
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Although, less is known about prices in nongroup plans sold both on and off the Affordable Care Act marketplaces where narrow networks and low-cost insurers are more prevalent.
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In an ahead-of-print article published today, Caroline Hanson and coauthors discover that providers paid substantially less by marketplace nongroup insurers as compared to employer small-group plans.
Host Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and public health advocate, interviews Kimberly Driggins from the Washington Housing Conservancy about the connections between housing security, economic mobility, and health outcomes.
Join Health AffairsDecember 16Â for a virtual event examining how efforts designed to increase access to and quality of care for underserved communities may align with efforts to address the rising cost of health care.Â
Health Affairs’ Director of Health Equity Vabren Watts will moderate the virtual briefing.
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Speakers include:Â
Margarita Alegria, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Last month, we released the initial article for an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care.
Articles in the symposium will consider the implications of developments in the health system such as:
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