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Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection

This collection contains research outputs produced by members of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR). Collection DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/mshb-sp27

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2025 State Legislative End-of-Session Recap: State Legislative Actions Related to Health Care Markets

Description:
This report highlights the laws that states have enacted so far in their 2025 legislative sessions related to health care markets. In addition, this document …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) (Author)
Subject:
State Legislative Actions
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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2026 State End of Session Recap: State Action on Healthcare Affordability and Consolidation

Description:
In their 2026 legislative sessions, state policymakers considered a variety of bills to improve affordability and strengthen their health care markets. These included policies to …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Nathan Hostert (Creator)
Roslyn C. Murray (Creator)
Christopher M. Whaley (Creator)
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Creator)
Hayden Rooke-Ley (Creator)
Lindsey Murtagh (Creator)
Subject:
Healthcare
Affordability
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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340B Drug Pricing Program: Potential Policy Options to Restore Program Integrity

Description:
Several policy initiatives could help to ensure that low-income Americans benefit from 340B drug price savings. Transparency initiatives that elucidate how hospitals use 340B revenues …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Corrie Mook (Author)
Subject:
340B Drug Pricing Program
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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A Comprehensive Response to the Fentanyl Crisis: Strengthening the Response to Fentanyl Through Public Health Interventions

Description:
Testimony of Ju Nyeong Park submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on a comprehensive response to the fentanyl crisis on February 4, 2025.
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Ju Nyeong Park (Author)
Subject:
fentanyl
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Addressing Health Care Affordability Through Transparency: Evidence on What Works and Areas for Further Congressional Action

Description:
Testimony of Christopher M. Whaley, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Christopher M. Whaley (Author)
Subject:
health care
Price transparency
Affordability
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Addressing Healthcare Consolidation in the U.S.: Potential Policy Options for a Competitive and Transparent Future

Description:
Healthcare consolidation in the U.S. has significantly increased over the past few decades, leading to a highly concentrated market dominated by a few large health …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Yashaswini Singh (Author)
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Author)
Megha Reddy (Author)
Jared Perkins (Author)
Hayden Rooke-Ley (Author)
Subject:
Healthcare Consolidation
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults: Gaps, Challenges, and Solutions

Description:
Testimony of Patience Moyo Dow and Francesca Beaudoin submitted to the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging on opioid use disorder in older adults …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Patience Moyo Dow (Author)
Francesca Beaudoin (Author)
Subject:
Opioid Use Disorder
older adults
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Addressing Site-of-Care Payment Differentials in the U.S. Health Care System

Description:
“Site-of-care” payment differentials contribute to rising Medicare spending. These paymentdifferentials also fuel provider consolidation by creating an “arbitrage” opportunity to shift referrals to hospital-based outpatient …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Dakota Rome L. Paul (Author)
Jared Perkins (Author)
Subject:
Payment Differentials
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Advancing Telehealth: Potential Policy Solutions to Ensure the Sustainable and Equitable Growth of Telehealth

Description:
This policy brief outlines key principles that could inform the next steps in telehealth policy. It reviews current research findings and concludes with several policy …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Ateev Mehrotra (Author)
Jared Perkins (Author)
Subject:
Telehealth
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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AI Adoption, Hospital Throughput, and Employment

Description:
We combine 2021–2024 data on artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across U.S. shortterm general hospitals with national measures of hospital finances, volume, employment, and measured quality. …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Daniel R. Arnold (Author)
Jonathan Cantor (Author)
Christopher M. Whaley (Author)
Subject:
artificial intelligence
labor substitution
hospital performance
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Analysis of Medicare Final Payment Rates in Vermont

Description:
This memo presents an analysis of Medicare final payment rates for Vermont PPS hospitals, along with a comparison of how these payments compare nationally. In …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) (Author)
Subject:
Medicare
Vermont
Payment Rates
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Analysis of Medicare Final Payment Rates in Vermont

Description:
Under Vermont’s recently enacted Act 68 of 2025, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) is directed to establish reference-based price caps for hospitals “based on …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Murray, Roslyn (Author)
Hostert, Nathan (Author)
Whaley, Christopher (Author)
Subject:
Medicare
Vermont
Payment Rates
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Arbitration and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from Insurer–Doctor Disputes

Description:
In many markets, disagreements are settled using arbitration. We examine this understudied form of dispute resolution in the context of one of the largest arbitration …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Chartock, Benjamin (Author)
Whaley, Christopher (Author)
Subject:
Arbitration
Dispute resolution
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Assessing Individual Market Hospital Outpatient Prices in the Context of the Colorado Option

Description:
In 2023, Colorado launched the Colorado Option, a standardized health insurance plan with regulatory tools to enforce premium reductions, including state intervention in hospital payment …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Roslyn Murray (Author)
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Subject:
Hospital Outpatient Prices
Colorado
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Closing the Gaps: Policy Solutions for Cross-Market Hospital Mergers

Description:
Health care systems are increasingly pursuing mergers across multiple markets, known as “cross-market mergers.” These mergers have slipped through gaps in policy on antitrust enforcement. …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Neil Mehta (Author)
Erin Fuse Brown (Author)
Daniel Arnold (Author)
Subject:
Hospital Mergers
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Controlling Hospital Price Growth: Strengthening Massachusetts’ Health Care Cost Benchmark

Description:
Testimony of Roslyn C. Murray submitted to the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing of the Massachusetts State Legislature on strengthening Massachusetts’ health care cost …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Roslyn C. Murray (Author)
Subject:
Hospital Prices
Massachusetts
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Corporate Practice of Medicine: Vertical Alignment and Medicare Advantage Risk Coding

Description:
A long-appreciated, but understudied, aspect of vertical integration is the ability to align incentives and enable coordination between principals and agents. We examine this dynamic …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
David J. Meyers (Author)
Jay Shroff (Author)
Yashaswini Singh (Author)
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Subject:
Medicare Advantage
risk score payments
principal-agent relationships
health care provider consolidation
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Delivering Amidst Consolidation: Implications of Hospital Mergers on Newborn and Maternal Outcomes

Description:
As hospital systems consolidate and negotiate higher private health insurance (PHI) reimbursements, the widening difference between PHI and public hospital payments could incentivize hospitals to …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Hyesung Oh (Author)
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Subject:
Child Health
maternal health
Hospital Mergers
public hospitals
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Direct-to-Prescription Telehealth and the Corporatization of Medicine

Description:
Direct-to-Prescription (DTP) models exploit the convergence of three long-standing trends: decades of direct-to-consumer drug advertising, the rapid normalization of telehealth, and the growth of affiliated …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Jacob T. Elberg (Author)
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Author)
Subject:
Telehealth
Direct-to-Prescription
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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Direct-to-Prescription Telehealth Arrangements: Recent Expansion, Concerns, and Policy Options

Description:
The growth of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing, telehealth expansion, and vertically integrated pharmacy distribution has enabled new direct-to-prescription (DTP) telehealth models that allow patients to obtain …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Erin C. Fuse Brown (Author)
Jacob Elberg (Author)
Isabelle Boun (Author)
Corrie Mook (Author)
Jared Perkins (Author)
Subject:
Telehealth
Direct-to-Prescription
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
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