Across the country, states are investing in organizations and cross-departmental offices responsible for collecting, managing, integrating and analyzing health system data to provide policymakers, regulators, researchers and...more
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Introduction -
Welcome to the Manatt State Cost Containment Update, a digital publication produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and developed in coordination with the Peterson-Milbank Program for...more
In 2020, health care spending in the United States reached $4.1 trillion, or 20% of the U.S. economy. Although the health care industry is powered by data and foundational to the health and well-being of our nation,...more
COVID-19 has illuminated systemic racial and ethnic inequities in our healthcare system and catalyzed an unprecedented call to action to address their root causes. It has also revealed the dearth of reliable and standardized...more
The focus on healthcare cost containment has grown dramatically since Massachusetts enacted the first cost benchmarking program in 2012. Since the program’s inception, commercial spending growth in Massachusetts has dropped...more
Editor’s Note: Seeking methods to better understand and control healthcare costs, many states are taking a careful look at a state-defined spending target, or “benchmarking” model, that originated in Massachusetts and has...more