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Tim Day was determined to bring a positive attitude to his treatment after a scary stage 4 cancer diagnosis in 2019. But he learned soon enough he'd need to bring a lot of money, too.

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs.

As state leaders work to enforce new healthcare cost containment measures, federal policy changes add urgency

A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of health care mergers on pricing.

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.