Employers flex healthcare muscles on Capitol Hill as costs spike Escalating costs and new responsibilities have employers pressing Congress on healthcare policy like never before.

"Employers flex healthcare muscles on Capitol Hill as costs spike"
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The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"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."

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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
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After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization - KFF Health News After Eric Tennant died, his widow vowed to speak out against West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency, which had denied cancer treatment recommended by Tennant’s doctor. Her efforts paid…

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Employers Can Now Save by Comparing Health Care Prices | AJMC Employers can use price transparency data to reconsider their choice of carriers or plans, negotiate prices with their carriers, and steer employees toward high-quality, reasonably priced providers.

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

PBM reform was a start. Now make health plan claims transparent | Opinion "In no other area of business would a company spend millions of dollars without receiving an itemized invoice."

"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."
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Employers Can Now Save by Comparing Health Care Prices | AJMC Employers can use price transparency data to reconsider their choice of carriers or plans, negotiate prices with their carriers, and steer employees toward high-quality, reasonably priced providers.

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

Payers' prior authorization denial rates go public: 5 notes - Becker's Payer Issues | Payer News 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...

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

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

State regulators eye direct caps on hospital prices Fox and Murtagh noted that some states already impose controls on hospitals' prices, and that the controls can take different forms, such as a flat cap on prices or a limit on price increases.

"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"
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The states pushing hospital price caps despite opposition State legislators say price caps take decisive action against out-of-control healthcare costs.

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What DOJ’s recent antitrust lawsuit means for health systems The Justice Department's lawsuits against New York-Presbyterian and OhioHealth sets the stage for litigation in other markets.

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

DOJ sues NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital over alleged anticompetitive contracts The large New York City hospital system used its market power to restrict contacts with insurers, insulating it from price competition, or "erosion of rates of payment," says DOJ.

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

Justice Department Sues New York-Presbyterian Hospital for Anticompetitive Contracts That Increase Healthcare Costs for New Yorkers The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, together with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today challenging The New York and Presbyte...

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, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations.

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men. Female Ph.D. students and assistant professors saw disproportionate impacts
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Leapfrog Group’s legal defeat underscores challenges of rating hospital quality The legal battle underscores the complicated questions surrounding how best to evaluate hospital safety.

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

Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale | Yale Tobin Center Research and policy insights from Yale’s Health Care Affordability Lab advancing evidence-based solutions to lower costs and improve the U.S. health system.

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 According to new West Health-Gallup research, millions of Americans report cutting back on expenses and delaying plans because of healthcare costs.

"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

Leapfrog ordered to remove safety grade for 5 Tenet hospitals 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 safe |…

"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

Technical Improvements Could Strengthen Transparency in Coverage Data Center grantee Simple Healthcare provides recommendations for improving TiC data that commercial health plans are required to release.

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

Center Responds to HHS, Treasury, and Labor Proposed Rule on Transparency in Coverage Data Reporting The Center offers recommendations to improve TiC data quality and reliability, expand file utility for employers, and strengthen compliance and enforcement.

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

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

“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”

No Surprises Act system hits employer plans hard The average determination took 91 days and cost $445, and providers won 80% of the time.

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

2026 Healthcare Price Transparency Forum - Program | Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc. The Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc. (SIIA) is a membership-based association that aims to protect and promote the interests of companies involved in the self-insurance/captive industry. Our…

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 hit dead ends with insurance 'ghost networks.' Now, some are suing. A recent lawsuit is challenging one company, EmblemHealth, over its so-called ghost network of mental health providers.

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