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 04, 2019
Some hospital prices rose over 40 percent in less than a decade. Will this new rule help?
Learn MoreAuthor: Laura Santhanam, PBS NewsHour
February 04, 2019
Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending
Learn MoreAuthor: Alex Kacik, Modern Healthcare
December 15, 2015
The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care
Learn MoreAuthor: Kevin Quealy & Margot Sanger-Katz, The Upshot
December 18, 2015
"Where Health Care Is Better and Cheaper: Answers to 10 Questions"
Learn MoreAuthor: Margot Sanger-Katz & Kevin Quealy, The Upshot
December 15, 2015
An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide
Learn MoreAuthor: Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace
February 05, 2016
Companies team up to get better value in health care
Learn MoreAuthor: Dan Gorenstein, Marketplace
December 15, 2015
Costs of Hospital Operations Can Vary Wildly by Location
Learn MoreAuthor: Justin Worland, TIME
December 15, 2015
Health Care Costs More in Cities with Fewer Hospitals
Learn MoreAuthor: Kara Brandeisky, Money
December 15, 2015
Data suggest hospital consolidation drives higher prices for privately insured
Learn MoreAuthor: Melanie Evans, Modern Healthcare
December 26, 2015
Hospital Prices Vary Widely Across the United States
Learn MoreAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Dallas, U.S. News & World Report
December 18, 2015
Huge variation in medical prices as hospital 'monopolies' charge more, report says
Learn MoreAuthor: Beth Jones Sanborn, Healthcare Finance
December 15, 2015
Want Lower Health Care Costs? Encourage Competition.
Learn MoreAuthor: Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
December 15, 2015
Health care in Minnesota not always a bargain, study finds
Learn MoreAuthor: Christopher Snowbeck, StarTribune
December 22, 2015
Grand Junction is among the expensive places for hospital stay
Learn MoreAuthor: David Olinger, The Denver Post
January 12, 2016
Cleaveland: Deciphering the costs of health care
Learn MoreAuthor: Dr. Clif Cleaveland, timesfreepress.com
January 02, 2016
Grand Valley data says cheap Medicare comes with price — sky-high rates for private insurance
Learn MoreAuthor: Charles Ashby, The Daily Sentinel
December 16, 2015
Suspicions about health care costs confirmed
Learn MoreAuthor: Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle
December 30, 2015
Making Sense Of Price And Quantity Variations In U.S. Health Care
Learn MoreAuthor: Jonathan Skinner, David Goodman & Elliot Fisher, Health Affairs Blog
Other Grantee Publications
February 01, 2019
"Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14"
Learn MoreAuthor: 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"
Learn MoreAuthor: Cooper Z, Craig SV, Gaynor M, Van Reenan J, The Quarterly Journal of Economics