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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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Research Insights

November 19, 2020

Better Prediction of Rising Health Spending to Improve Cost Containment

Cost & Quality

Research Insights

January 31, 2020

Shorter Initial Prescriptions for Opioids: What are the Health and Economic Benefits?

Cost & Quality / Prescription Drugs / Substance Use

Research Insights

January 22, 2020

Hospital Mergers and the Unrealized Promise of Better Quality

Cost & Quality / Provider Consolidation

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Grantees Covering Cost & Quality

Coleman D. Drake, University of Pittsburgh

Research Grants

March 01, 2020 - November 30, 2020

Nothing Matters: The Zero-Price Effect in the Individual Insurance Market

Coleman D. Drake, University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator: Russell J. Funk, University of Minnesota

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - June 30, 2021

Competitive Dynamics of Physician Referrals in the Era of ACOs

Principal Investigator: Russell J. Funk, University of Minnesota
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

Journalism Grants

October 24, 2019 - April 30, 2021

The 2020 Health Coverage Fellowship

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Sarah Axeen, University of Southern California

Research Grants

January 01, 2020 - December 31, 2020

Measuring the Value of Emergency Mental Health Care

Sarah Axeen, University of Southern California