Featured Stories
Indiana group’s bruising battle for legislation to limit hospital fees is spurring employer groups in other states to follow suit
Sept 28, 2023
IU Health Holds Pricing Flat Amid Hospital Price Transparency Push
RevCycleIntelligence, January 4, 2022 Mentioned
Hospitals Still Not Fully Complying With Federal Price-Disclosure Rules
Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2021 Featured
Study finds wide variability in hospital Medicare charges, cost-efficiency at Indiana hospitals
Indianapolis Star, November 12, 2021 Mentioned
Report: Michigan ranks nearly last in U.S. for health insurance competition
MiBiz, November 7, 2021 Mentioned
Hoosier Employers Pay 304% More – Examining Hospital Pricing
Building Indiana Business, April 30, 2021 Featured
Montana’s Health Policy MVP Takes Her Playbook on the Road
Kaiser Health News, February 18, 2021 Mentioned
The High Price of Lowering Health Costs for 150 Million Americans
Tradeoffs, February 18, 2021 AuthoredPodcast
Predictions on insurance premium all over the map
Indianapolis Business Journal, February 5, 2021 Mentioned
What DID YOU PAY?: Study finds Indiana has some of the highest health care costs
The Herald Bulletin, January 31, 2021 Featured
Despite a Bumpy Road Ahead, Incremental Progress on Price Transparency
Health Affairs, October 13, 2020 Featured
Employers Compared Notes On Secret Prices At Kansas Hospitals To Boost Their Leverage On Costs
KCUR (NPR in Kansas City), September 26, 2020 Mentioned
Employers Won’t Like This New RAND Report On Health Costs
Forbes, September 18, 2020 Featured
Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care New York Times
New York Times, September 18, 2020 Featured
Rand Report: Private Payers Pay 247% of What Medicare Pays for Hospital Care
Managed Healthcare Executive, September 18, 2020 Featured
Study: Indiana ranks sixth in nation in hospital charge disparities
Indianapolis Business Journal, September 18, 2020 Featured
Gap between what private insurers and Medicare pay hospitals is growing
Modern Healthcare, September 18, 2020 Featured
Employers’ Hospital Fees More Than Double What Medicare Pays
Bloomberg Law, September 18, 2020 Featured
RAND stokes hospital pricing transparency fire with new report
Benefits Pro, September 18, 2020 Featured
Brief: Hospitals charge privately insured patients 250% more than those on Medicare. The gap is growing.
Healthcare Dive, September 18, 2020 Featured
South Bend area physicians make series of moves to compete with hospitals, drive down costs
South Bend Tribune, July 19, 2020 Mentioned
Lawmakers consider regulation to hospital billing
Indianapolis Business Journal, February 27, 2020 Mentioned
Health care bills unlikely to remedy cost crisis
Indianapolis Business Journal, January 24, 2020 Mentioned
How state groups are working to lower healthcare prices
Modern Healthcare, January 11, 2020 Featured
Self-insured employers go looking for value-based deals
Modern Healthcare, January 11, 2020 Mentioned
Denver Provider Market at ‘Tipping Point’, Study Finds
Health Leaders Media, September 12, 2019 Mentioned
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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