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State Reference Pricing Can Lower Health Care Costs Equitably

13 Aug 2024

The price of health care in the United States is already high and continues to rise at unsustainable rates, driving affordability challenges and representing a major policy priority.1 The high price of health care is not evenly distributed: prices charged for care vary between insurance types, across geographic areas, and even between providers within a region.2 This report is the third in a series that explores how states that are seeking to lower the cost of care can also advance health equity as part of that effort through policy design and implementation, rather than as an afterthought.3 This report focuses on reference pricing: payers setting upper payment limits for health care services to normalize and lower health spending.

Authors

Thomas Waldrop, Lex Brierley

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Pages
16
Published in
United States of America

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