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State Action to Address Hospital Pricing and Consolidation: Solutions for Policymakers
February 2025
This report reveals how state policymakers are taking action to curb skyrocketing hospital prices and help protect people from the hidden costs of consolidation.
State-Driven Solutions for Policymakers
With patients, employers, and state and federal budgets impacted with increasing consolidation and high prices charged by hospitals, policymakers are looking for solutions. Our new report, State Action to Address Hospital Pricing and Consolidation: Solutions for Policymakers, highlights four state-driven solutions policymakers should consider, including:
- Addressing Facility Fees
- Advancing Site-Neutral Payment Policy
- Directly Placing Limits on Hospital Prices
- Protecting Patients from Harmful Hospital Consolidation
States are making tremendous strides to better protect patients from sky-high prices, and these solutions are already saving people and states money. The approaches taken in states across the country provide valuable lessons for other state and federal policymakers, who should look to these policies and the benefits they provide once enacted. A new Congress and the start to many legislative sessions across the country provides the opportunity for policymakers to take meaningful action, with no shortage of promising approaches to learn from and adapt.