Forum Session Announcement - Strong Providers, Big Prices: A Look at Provider Market Power in Health Care

For example, physician groups participating in the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Alternative Quality Contract must manage the cost of care for a specific population within a target budget and are subject to both upside and downside risk.18 A recent report from the Massachusetts AGO noted progress in each of these areas but cautioned that the outcomes of initiatives have been modest, mark. [...] Berenson provided a brief overview of the relationship between market power and prices and review the policy options the Panel put forward to support competitive health care markets. [...] The meeting featured two discussants: Paul Ginsburg, PhD, Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy, and director of Health Policy, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, and Helen Darling, MA, strategic advisor in health benefits and policy and former president and chief executive officer of the National Bus. [...] For a discussion of the benefits and harms of consolidation, see Cutler and Morton, “Hospitals, Market Share, and Consolidation.” 11. [...] Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, “Examination of Health Care Cost Trends and Cost Drivers, Pursuant to G.