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Controlling Health Care Costs
Health care is too expensive for many Californians. CHCF offers these resources that detail where health spending happens, why health care costs are increasing so rapidly, and what policymakers could consider to improve value in the system.
Publication

Health Care Cost Commissions: How Eight States Address Cost Growth

April 2022
Glenn Melnick
Health Care Costs
This issue brief documents efforts in eight states that have established new independent commissions or increased the authority of an existing regulatory body to monitor and limit unnecessary growth in health spending.
Publication

Markets or Monopolies? Considerations for Addressing Health Care Consolidation in California

December 2021
Katherine L. Gudiksen, Amy Y. Gu, Jaime S. King
Health Care Costs
Most California health care markets are highly concentrated, with hospital markets in particular approaching monopoly levels in many counties. Studies show that mergers of health care companies result in increased prices for services. This report compiles evidence about consolidation and provides potential considerations for policymakers.
Publication

2022 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

February 2022
Katherine Wilson
Health Care Costs
This quick reference guide provides a look at national health care spending in 2020. The full report will be released later this year.
CHCF Blog

Aligning Health Cost Growth with Economic Growth Would Save Californians Billions

April 6, 2021
Kristof Stremikis
Health Care Costs
California policymakers are turning their attention to a public health crisis that has bedeviled the state for decades: unjustifiably high and rising health care costs.
CHCF Blog

Ever-Rising Health Costs Worsen California’s Coronavirus Threat

March 5, 2020
Kristof Stremikis
Health Care Costs
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, it is important to remember another significant threat to the health of our people — soaring health costs.
Publication

Commissioning Change: How Four States Use Advisory Boards to Contain Health Spending

January 2020
Glenn Melnick, Susan Maerki
Health Care Costs
Controlling the growth of health spending is central to any state effort to achieve universal coverage and to relieve consumers struggling with out-of-pocket costs. California can learn from four states that have established state commissions to measure, monitor, and set targets to control health care cost increases.
Publication

Getting to Affordability: Spending Trends and Waste in California’s Health Care System

January 2020
RAND Corporation
Health Care Costs
Health care is still far too expensive for many Californians. Crucial to any cost containment effort is a detailed understanding of what costs are being reduced, where they are coming from, and who has the potential to capture the savings. This report focuses on the landscape of health care spending and a framework for understanding cost containment approaches in California.
Publication

2021 Edition — Health Care Costs 101

June 2021
Katherine Wilson
Health Care Costs, Payment & Financing
Health Care Costs 101: US Spending Growth Outpaces Economy provides a detailed look at national health care spending in 2019, just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication

The Sky’s the Limit

October 2019
Richard M. Scheffler, Daniel R. Arnold, Brent D. Fulton
Health Care Costs
California pays significantly more for common health care services than the rest of the country, and the gap has been widening. A critical factor in the fast growth of prices is market concentration — including hospital consolidation and physician integration — which has been proliferating in the state. The Sky’s the Limit: Health Care Prices and Market Consolidation in California looks at the data and the policies that can be considered to address this serious concern.
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