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Indiana group’s bruising battle for legislation to limit hospital fees is spurring employer groups in other states to follow suit
Sept 28, 2023
Senators pass ‘site of service’ bill with reservations
Indiana Capital Chronicle, February 9, 2023 Mentioned
Indiana lawmakers try to force hospitals to lower prices
Indianapolis Star, February 6, 2023 Mentioned
Hospital Pricing Tool Gets Major Data Update
Building Indiana Business, February 3, 2023 Featured
Doctors ask lawmakers to free them from noncompete agreements
Indianapolis Business Journal, February 3, 2023 Mentioned
Indiana hospitals are in the red, and they don’t agree with lawmakers on how to cut costs
WFYI (Indianapolis), February 1, 2023 Featured
Senate panel advances physician non-compete bill
Inside Indiana Business, January 26, 2023 Mentioned
How profitable are California’s 1-star hospitals?
Becker’s Hospital Review, January 20, 2023 Mentioned
Hoosiers are paying more for hospital care. Here’s how lawmakers want to solve the problem.
State Affairs, January 18, 2023 Mentioned
North Texas’ Most Profitable Hospitals
D Magazine, January 17, 2023 Mentioned
Compare Hospital Prices with Sage Transparency Tool
AHealthcareZ, January 15, 2023 FeaturedVideo
What Legislators Need to Know About Hospital Prices, With Gloria Sachdev, PharmD, and Chris Skisak, PhD
Relentless Health Value, January 12, 2023 AuthoredPodcast
Indiana House Republicans propose fines for hospitals with high fees
Indianapolis Business Journal, January 12, 2023 Mentioned
Op-Ed: Indiana health care costs should be lowered to national average
Evansville Courier & Press, January 12, 2023 Mentioned
Gloria Sachdev on Sage Transparency
Catalyst for Payment Reform, November 28, 2022 AuthoredPodcast
Indiana health care costs targeted by lawmakers, but how is unclear.
Indianapolis Star, October 28, 2022 Mentioned
Uncharted waters: Inflation and open enrollment
Benefits Pro, October 7, 2022 Featured
In unhealthy Indiana, business and health leaders rally around plan to boost public health spending
Indianapolis Business Journal, September 23, 2022 Mentioned
2022 Health Care and Benefits Power Breakfast
Indianapolis Business Journal, September 23, 2022 FeaturedVideo
It’s Time For Employers To Bring Health Care Decisions In-House
Health Affairs, September 22, 2022 Authored
Using Data Transparency to Control Hospital Costs
Mathematica, September 21, 2022 Authored
Gloria Sachdev talks hospital price transparency at annual Healthcare Economics Summit
Concordia University Wisconsin, August 10, 2022 Authored
Tensions Between Employers, Hospitals Up With Transparency Push
Bloomberg Law, August 2, 2022 Featured
Employer- and Worker-Led Efforts To Lower Health Insurance Costs
Center for American Progress, July 28, 2022 Mentioned
Employers Are Sharing Health Price Data, but Real Change Is Slow
Bloomberg Law, July 13, 2022 Mentioned
A rich Republican businessman is an unlikely champion for lower hospital prices — but he’s winning the fight
Stat, June 30, 2022 Mentioned
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President and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana
Recognition
2024 Transparency Champion Award, Health Rosetta
2023 President’s Award of Appreciation, Indiana Pharmacy Association
2022 Healthcare Transformation Award, The Alliance
2022 Health Value Award Spotlight, Validation Institute
2019 Jefferson Award, Purdue University
2019 Membership Leadership Award, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
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Big Hospitals Provide Skimpy Charity Care—Despite Billions in Tax Breaks
Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2022
After months of warnings, CMS hands out its first fines to hospitals failing on price transparency
Fierce Healthcare, June 9, 2022
Transparency helps curb medical costs
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN), May 31, 2022
Price Effects Of Vertical Integration And Joint Contracting Between Physicians And Hospitals In Massachusetts
Health Affairs, May 31, 2022
Michael Hicks: Hospitals to Legislature: Drop dead
Star Press, April 10, 2022
Indiana House speaker: $416M ‘gift’ from IU Health to IU ‘raises eyebrows and speculation’
The Herald Times (Bloomington), April 5, 2022
State lawmakers critical of health care costs get feedback from hospitals, insurers
Indianapolis Business Journal, April 5, 2022
Viewpoint: Indiana’s hospital systems stand committed to affordability
Indianapolis Business Journal, April 1, 2022
IU Health says it’s ahead of schedule to meet lawmakers’ affordability demands
Indianapolis Business Journal, March 31, 2022
Hospitals are back in the hot seat for their prices
Axios, March 18, 2022
Hospital Prices: Unsustainable and Unjustifiable
32BJ Health Fund, March 17, 2022
Hoosier watchdog group wants lower Parkview prices
WANE (Fort Wayne, IN), March 7, 2022
Op-Ed: Bloated healthcare prices will increase with industry in charge of cost reductions
Indianapolis Star, March 3, 2022
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High-Priced Hospitals in Indiana Press Their Political Luck
Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2022
Indiana legislators threaten to act if health systems don’t lower costs
Becker’s Hospital Review, January 24, 2022
More states target hospitals’ anticompetitive contracting policies
Modern Healthcare, January 24, 2022
The Data on IU Health’s Price Freeze
The Country Economist, January 9, 2022
Michael Hicks: IU Health’s price freeze is a gimmick
Star Press, January 9, 2022
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Indiana legislative leaders take aim at ‘out-of-control’ health care prices
Indianapolis Business Journal, January 4, 2022
Parkview Health: prices by 2025 will be lower than 2020
WANE (Fort Wayne, IN), December 21, 2021