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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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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 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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

Clean Indoor Air: A Guide for State Leaders to Improve Indoor Air Quality

Description:
The State Guide for Clean Indoor Air provides an evidence-based roadmap for state and local leaders to strengthen indoor air quality policy, protect public health, …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Chwalek, Sabrina (Author)
Lagoudas, Georgia (Author)
Bhangar, Seema (Author)
Bruns, Richard (Author)
Carter, Hannah (Author)
Hartke, Jason (Author)
Jacobs, David E. (Author)
Kulungara, Abraham (Author)
Nguyen, Huyen (Author)
Olsiewski, Paula (Author)
Plankey, Anna (Author)
Reed, Amy (Author)
Subject:
Indoor air quality
clean indoor air
healthy buildings
state policy
state regulation
ventilation standards
HVAC
building codes
Collection:
Open Publications at Brown
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

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
Full Record

Estimated Impact of a Facility Fee Ban for Routine Services in Illinois

Description:
To address the rising cost of facility fees, states are increasingly adopting policies to ban or regulate them. States such as Connecticut, Indiana, and New …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) (Author)
Subject:
Vertical Integration
Illinois
Facility fees
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
Full Record

Estimating Savings from the Fair Pricing Act and Commercial Site-Neutral Payments in New York State

Description:
This report evaluates the potential impact of the Fair Pricing Act and site-neutral payment on commercial health care spending in New York. We analyze price …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Roslyn Murray (Author)
Haroon Janjua (Author)
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Subject:
New York
Fair Pricing Act
Site-Neutral Payments
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
Full Record

Estimating the Cost of an Out-of-Pocket Maximum in Traditional Medicare

Description:
Traditional Medicare’s (TM) lack of an out-of-pocket maximum, a feature of Medicare Advantage plans, means that OOP costs can accumulate rapidly for beneficiaries without supplemental …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Meehir Dixit (Author)
David Meyers (Author)
Andrew Ryan (Author)
Subject:
Traditional Medicare
Original Medicare
Out-of-Pocket Maximum
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
Full Record

Estimating the Individual Market Premium Impacts of the Colorado Option

Description:
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced several challenges, including the elimination of the individual mandate, phase-out of reinsurance programs, and insurer exits, all of …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Roslyn Murray (Author)
Christopher Whaley (Author)
Subject:
Premiums
Colorado
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
Full Record

Evaluating the Impact and Consequences of the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model

Description:
In July 2019, the Trump Administration, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), announced a new model of care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Kalli Koukounas (Author)
Amal Trivedi (Author)
Jared Perkins (Author)
Subject:
End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model
Collection:
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection
Full Record

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