The Employers’ Forum of Indiana coordinates initiatives to improve the value received by employers and patients for their health care expenditures.
Sage Transparency
Sage Transparency is a free, public-facing tool designed to offer a clear, unbiased view of hospital price, cost, and quality data, as well as price data for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and physician-administered medications. Initially launched in May 2022 and then relaunched in May 2024 with new dashboards, data, and features, it aids employers, policymakers, researchers, and the general public in making informed, evidence-based decisions.
Employer Price Transparency Studies
A key initiative of the Forum is partnering with the RAND corporation to produce national employer price transparency studies which publicly report relative prices at the hospital level. Studies 1-5 in this series were conducted by the RAND Corporation.
The next in the series, PT6 (RAND 6.0) is now enrolling participants for a new study to be released in September 2027.
The first study in this series, RAND 1.0 published in 2017 analyzed 120 hospitals in Indiana. RAND 2.0 which analyzed 1600 hospitals in 25 states of which Indiana was the highest priced state, was published in May 2019. RAND 3.0, which includes 49 states plus D.C., was published in September 2020. A fourth report was released in May of 2022 which included data from over 4,000 hospitals as well as ambulatory surgical centers. PT5 (RAND 5.0) was released in May 2024 and updated December 10, 2024 (PT5.1/RAND 5.1) and includes hospital and ambulatory surgical center data as well as medication prices. These landmark studies can be found on the Forum’s Employer Price Transparency website.
Indiana Law-to-Action Series
The Indiana Law-to-Action Series is designed to help employers understand how to leverage new Indiana legislation. Find high-level action-oriented guides of what the law does and practical steps you can take to use in your contracts, oversight, and vendor interactions.
National Healthcare Price Transparency Conference
In 2019, the Forum began a series of conferences to go in depth on the Employer Price Transparency Studies. Employers and speakers from around the country met to hear the results of these studies and discuss solutions to improve the value and cost of healthcare.
The last conference took place on May 13, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana and featured the results of PT5 (RAND 5.0) and introduced Sage Transparency 2.0, our interactive healthcare price dashboard.
