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New York has 39 fewer hospitals than it did two decades ago, as facilities buckle under financial pressure and the migration of procedures to outpatient settings accelerates, according to new data from Yale University.

While hospital closings play an outsized role in health policy debates, a new tracking tool shows that for every 10 U.S. facilities that shut from 2001 to 2023, eight opened.

Nonprofit health systems AdventHealth and Intermountain Health announced plans Tuesday to bring Denver-area hospitals and ambulatory sites under a new, to-be-formed joint venture.

Indiana employers have pushed for more affordable hospital prices for years, and last year’s reforms were a meaningful result of that effort. But there is no evidence yet that employers are paying lower hospital prices. What is clear is that the health care systems with the greatest market power continue to have some of the highest prices in the country.

From routine tests to doctor’s visits to emergency care, healthcare costs keep climbing...why is it so expensive? We take a deep dive with Zack Cooper, Associate Professor of Public Health and of Economics and Director of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale University.

Fewer than half of Americans say they can afford healthcare. Could you afford getting hit with a big medical bill? Why are costs so high? * Almost two-thirds of Americans say a third party is needed…but it’s tough for one to get going. Could third parties gain traction by running as Republicans or Democrats and winning primaries? We’ll take a look at some recent examples

Are stagnant wages the hidden price tag of a broken healthcare system? On this week's Capitalisn't, Yale health economist Zack Cooper argues that the U.S. healthcare market is failing because of structural flaws like employer-sponsored insurance, which hides true costs from consumers.

Hospital prices tripled from 2000–2023, and roughly one-third of 1,331 system mergers occurred in markets where reduced competition would be expected to increase pricing power.

Expanded health systems pushing for higher reimbursements and insurer profit pressures add to CT's healthcare costs.