- Title Information
- Title
- Assessing Individual Market Hospital Outpatient Prices in the Context of the Colorado Option
- Type of Resource (primo)
- technical_reports
- Abstract
- 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 negotiations. This brief examines whether these regulatory tools influenced
hospital outpatient prices in the individual market. Using 2020–2024 claims data for four
common outpatient procedures, we found that prices at hospitals targeted for rate
reductions ("named hospitals") declined by approximately 10% in non-Colorado Option
plans. These findings suggest the Colorado Option may be contributing to modest price
reductions, with potential spillover effects across the individual market.
- Name
- Name Part
- Roslyn Murray
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
- Author
- Name
- Name Part
- Christopher Whaley
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
- Author
- Origin Information
- Date Created
- 2025
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Hospital Outpatient Prices
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Colorado
- Genre
- Policy Brief
- Access Condition:
use and reproduction
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- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/9jf5-ds57