Research Grants

Funding For:

Do Higher Priced Providers Deliver Higher Quality Care? An Analysis of the Price/Quality Relationship Using HCCI Data

Cost & Quality


Recipient:

Zack Cooper, Yale University

Grant Period:

Jan 12, 2015 - Jan 11, 2016

AMOUNT:

$68,656.00

Summary of the Project:

This NIHCM-funded study took a deep dive into new private-sector claims data to explore variation in the prices hospitals negotiate with private payers, seeking to understand the factors drivering this variation, including hospital and insurance market concentration, clinical quality and other characteristics of the hospital. Findings are relevant to efforts to improve health system performance and promote value.


Media Coverage

February 05, 2019

Axios Vitals

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Author: Sam Baker

February 04, 2019

Some hospital prices rose over 40 percent in less than a decade. Will this new rule help?

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Author: Laura Santhanam, PBS NewsHour

February 04, 2019

Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending

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Author: Alex Kacik, Modern Healthcare

December 15, 2015

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

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Author: Kevin Quealy & Margot Sanger-Katz, The Upshot

December 18, 2015

"Where Health Care Is Better and Cheaper: Answers to 10 Questions"

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Author: Margot Sanger-Katz & Kevin Quealy, The Upshot

December 18, 2015

Health Care’s Price Conundrum

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Author: Atul Gawande, The New Yorker

December 15, 2015

An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide

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Author: Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace

February 05, 2016

Companies team up to get better value in health care

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Author: Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace

December 15, 2015

Costs of Hospital Operations Can Vary Wildly by Location

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Author: Justin Worland, TIME

December 15, 2015

Health Care Costs More in Cities with Fewer Hospitals

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Author: Kara Brandeisky, Money

December 15, 2015

Data suggest hospital consolidation drives higher prices for privately insured

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Author: Melanie Evans, Modern Healthcare

December 26, 2015

Hospital Prices Vary Widely Across the United States

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Dallas, U.S. News & World Report

December 18, 2015

Huge variation in medical prices as hospital 'monopolies' charge more, report says

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Author: Beth Jones Sanborn, Healthcare Finance

December 15, 2015

Want Lower Health Care Costs? Encourage Competition.

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Author: Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

December 15, 2015

Health care in Minnesota not always a bargain, study finds

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Author: Christopher Snowbeck, StarTribune

December 22, 2015

Grand Junction is among the expensive places for hospital stay

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Author: David Olinger, The Denver Post

January 12, 2016

Cleaveland: Deciphering the costs of health care

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Author: Dr. Clif Cleaveland, timesfreepress.com

January 02, 2016

Grand Valley data says cheap Medicare comes with price — sky-high rates for private insurance

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Author: Charles Ashby, The Daily Sentinel

December 16, 2015

Suspicions about health care costs confirmed

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Author: Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle

December 30, 2015

Making Sense Of Price And Quantity Variations In U.S. Health Care

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Author: Jonathan Skinner, David Goodman & Elliot Fisher, Health Affairs Blog

Grantee Publications

February 01, 2019

"Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14"

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Author: Cooper Z, Craig S, Gaynor M, Harish NJ, Krumholz, H & Van Reenan J, Health Affairs

September 04, 2018

"The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured"

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Author: Cooper Z, Craig SV, Gaynor M, Van Reenan J, The Quarterly Journal of Economics