New Report from Catalyst for Payment Reform and National Academy of Social Insurance

Today, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) released a comprehensive evaluation of state laws addressing the power of health care providers to negotiate higher prices. This report catalogs the laws and regulations state governments are using to maintain or increase competition in health care markets, which the recent wave of mergers among hospitals and other consolidation among providers has significantly reduced.

The report reveals a number of common strategies states are using, including laws and regulations pertaining to: antitrust; price and quality transparency; competition in health plan contracting; price regulation; the development of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs); expanding the authority of state Departments of Insurance; and facilitating the entry of new providers into the marketplace