“Eight Oklahoma hospitals...received federal warning letters over healthcare price transparency requirements. Regulators say pricing data must be publicly accessible” bit.ly/4eF1o7Y #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"This union negotiated hospital prices to save on healthcare" 32BJ cut out the middleman and is on track to save tens of millions of dollars www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Indiana tries government price controls to help employers get better deals from hospitals. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...

Employer-sponsored insurance is increasingly unaffordable but ERISA could be a powerful tool for change. Georgetown's CHIR identifies ways to strengthen ERISA to address PBM and TPA costs chir.georgetown.edu/ERISA/afford... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Do TPAs still lock up employer claims data? House hearing witness says yes" #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon www.benefitspro.com/2026/06/11/d...

The Peterson Center on Healthcare seeks a Senior Manager to support the ideation, development, and execution of work in our health technology policy portfolio petersonhealthcare.org/careers/seni... #healthcare #jobs #healthpolicy #healthecon

June's #lipidofthemonth is the deadly Oenanthotoxin, a 17-carbon polyacetylene alcohol found in hemlock water-dropwort www.lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

ERISA was enacted in 1974 but is drawing new scrutiny in #healthcare because of lawsuits alleging fiduciary breaches. A new brief from Center on Health Insurance Reforms provides much-need context & clarity about how ERISA could help employers address high spending chir.georgetown.edu/ERISA/

Peterson Philanthropies is launching Peterson Health Analytics to provide employers with the insights they need to take greater control of their #healthcare spending and purchase more affordable, higher quality care for employees and families petersonanalytics.com/peterson-phi...

"With decades of economic evidence demonstrating that hospital consolidation raises prices and does not systematically improve quality, this transaction is about market power" #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/merg...

June 2 I'll be at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown for a discussion on ERISA and its role in advancing #healthcare affordability, moderated by Stacey Richter of @relentleshealth.bsky.social Register at bit.ly/ERISA26

On June 2, I'll be joining Georgetown CHIR in DC for a discussion of ERISA, the 1974 federal law governing employer-sponsored health plans, and its role in improving #healthcare affordability. Register to attend www.eventbrite.com/e/is-erisa-u...

Is ERISA up for the job? I'm looking forward to this conversation June 2 at Georgetown on how ERISA can keep #healthcare costs in check, where it is falling short, and opportunities to help employers purchase more effectively, with Stacey Richter of @relentleshealth.bsky.social bit.ly/ERISA26

How much do nonprofit #hospitals spend on management consultants and does consulting impact their finances, operations, or quality of care? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

This month's #lipidofthemonth is Juvenile Hormone III, the most prevalent of a family of acyclic sesquiterpene hormones which function to suppress metamorphosis in insect larvae www.lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi... via @lipidmaps.bsky.social

On May 27, I'll join Raymond Tsai from Purchaser Business Group on Health for a webinar hosted by Texas Employers for Affordable Health Care to discuss how employers can use price and quality data to purchase #healthcaer more effectively tbgh.wildapricot.org/event-6657415

"Employers flex healthcare muscles on Capitol Hill as costs spike" bit.ly/41MZB9u #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

Maryland state affordability board sets its first price cap for a medicine: The board will oversee a process to lower the cost of Jardiance by January 2027, via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization bit.ly/4bPCjpu #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Glad to work with Raymond Tsai on this overview of how transparent #healthcare price data can empower employers to compare prices across insurance carriers www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"The Trump administration could also build on the PBM reforms and proposed DOL rules by exploring whether similar transparency standards should apply to TPAs and claims administrators." www.newsweek.com/pbm-reform-w... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Raymond Tsai & I have a new article in Population Health, Equity & Outcomes about how transparent #healthcare price data helps employers compare actual negotiated rates, not just discounts, driving smarter purchasing www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

April's #lipidofthemonth is firapolol, an extremely unusual lipid molecule from the saliva of Draig goch, a native, but very rare, Welsh reptile lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi... via @lipidmaps.bsky.social

For the first time, payers must publicly post data on how often they deny prior authorization requests, how quickly they process them, and how often denials are overturned on appeal. The first reports are due March 31. buff.ly/Gha941S #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Vote vote vote! hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-pr...

Hospitals feel the heat over anticompetitive contracting www.axios.com/2026/03/31/h... via @axios.com #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Hospitals accounted for 32% of U.S. health care cost growth between 2005 and 2024, and 61% of the cost growth was attributable to increased prices, rather than to an increase in the amount of care provided" buff.ly/jfofQAR #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"The states pushing hospital price caps despite opposition" buff.ly/RQ0TCgH #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Hospitals' anticompetitive contracting policies increase #healthcare costs. DOJ has filed antitrust suits against New York-Presbyterian and OhioHealth, and may file in other states where large hospita systems have significant market power bit.ly/3NBQxkt #healthecon #healthpolicy

The complaint claims NewYork-Presbyterian uses its market power to force insurers into contracts that prevent payers from offering plans that do not include New York-Presbyterian or from offering lower copays when patients chose to receive care from lower-priced rivals. bit.ly/4bAcaL8 #healthcare

The US DOJ is suing New York-Presbyterian Hospital "for anticompetitive contracts that increase healthcare costs for New Yorkers" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi... #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men. Female Ph.D. students and assistant professors saw disproportionate impacts www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... Via @statnews.com

Happy birthday to the NYC legend, Wendy S. Sample

"Leapfrog Group’s legal defeat underscores challenges of rating hospital quality" www.statnews.com/2026/03/13/l... via @statnews.com #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

The Peterson Center on Healthcare is supporting the launch of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale buff.ly/YCX3NiV #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon @yalehealthlab.bsky.social

"One-Third of Americans Cut Back to Cover Healthcare Expenses: Cost of healthcare also causing many to delay pursuing milestones and life-enhancing goals," buff.ly/adneysT #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Culture at Columbia Shielded Sexual Assault by Physician, Report Finds. Two doctors affiliated with the university and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down after an external report found that the administrators mishandled allegations of abuse against Robert Hadden" buff.ly/ZkYzm82 #healthcare

"A federal judge has ruled against the Leapfrog Group in a suit brought by Tenet Healthcare subsidiary hospitals that said they were punished for not voluntarily submitting data to the hospital safety grading nonprofit." buff.ly/buq7L4c #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

A new white paper from Simple Healthcare provides recommendations for improving the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data that commercial health plans are required to release buff.ly/bn2ysET #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

The Depts of Health and Human Services, Treasury, Labor released a proposed rule to update Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data reporting requirements to make TiC data more usable. Check out the Peterson Center on Healthcare's response to the proposed rule buff.ly/RCvj2bg #healthcare #healthpolicy

“The changes will have ripple effects… The cost of thousands of people losing their insurance will have to be absorbed by other parts of the public health system. “This is really an economic disaster, a public health disaster, a moral disaster,” said Esteban Wood”

"The No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution system is expensive, slow and usually favors the health care providers." buff.ly/T94GYvQ #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

I’m looking forward to the conversation about price transparency and fiduciary responsibilities at today’s SIIA conference buff.ly/p5z6Rnc #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

Patients are suing insurers over 'ghost networks.' buff.ly/IlHzaeM. Research by @publicagenda.bsky.social explores how challenges finding in-network #healthcare providers affect people's mental health, relationships, work, physical health, and finances buff.ly/B54i3ek #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Cancer treatment costs declined as much as 8.2% in cities where most hospitals published complete pricing data for oncology services." www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

Departments of HHS, Labor, and Treasury extended the public comment period for the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) proposed rule to March 2, 2026. The rule can be accessed here: buff.ly/tsApCwF. The notice can be accessed here: buff.ly/vaHUgMh #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Report shows weak hospital and health plan price transparency across 10 US markets" buff.ly/ljP6SJU #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

I'm looking forward to this conversation about health plan sponsors' and vendors' fiduciary duties at the Self-Insurance Institute of America's price transparency forum on Feb 26 www.siia.org/i4a/pages/in... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon