Cost & Quality

Learn more about rising health care costs and private- and public-sector strategies to improve the value of spending.

Research Insights

September 17, 2020

More Evidence That Vertical Integration Increases Market Power and Pricing

This Research Insights explores how primary care physicians’ and specialists’ fees are higher when they combine complementary services in a multispecialty practice.

Cost & Quality / Provider Consolidation

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Grantees Covering Cost & Quality

Journalism Grants

February 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022

What You Really Need to Know About Drug Development

Healthcare Triage

Tim Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

May 01, 2021 - July 20, 2022

The Causal Effect of High-Quality Physician-Patient Relationships on Healthcare Costs and Outcomes: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and the Effect of Racial/Ethnic Concordance

Tim Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Jamie Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - June 30, 2022

Price and Quality for Ambulatory Surgery: Differences Between Hospital-Based and Freestanding Centers

Jamie Robinson, University of California, Berkeley

Jane Zhu, Oregon Health and Science University

Research Grants

January 01, 2021 - June 30, 2022

Private Equity Acquisitions of Physician Medical Practices and Implications for Practice Patterns and Costs of Care

Jane Zhu, Oregon Health and Science University

Cost & Quality

More Evidence That Vertical Integration Increases Market Power and Pricing

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Geographic Variation in Private Equity Penetration Across Physician Specialties

Does Medicaid Expansion Impact Postpartum Coverage, Outpatient Visits, and Racial Disparities?

Do Medical Device Firm Payments To Physicians Affect Hospital Purchasing Decisions?

Grantees Covering Cost & Quality

What You Really Need to Know About Drug Development

The Causal Effect of High-Quality Physician-Patient Relationships on Healthcare Costs and Outcomes: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and the Effect of Racial/Ethnic Concordance

Price and Quality for Ambulatory Surgery: Differences Between Hospital-Based and Freestanding Centers

Private Equity Acquisitions of Physician Medical Practices and Implications for Practice Patterns and Costs of Care