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On April 20, Dr. Zack Cooper, Director of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale, presented on the Evolution of Hospital Markets in the United States to state policymakers who are part of the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs.

A big reason is the high prices Americans pay for surgeries and drugs.

An analysis of hospital pricing found that facilities on average charge the uninsured almost five times what Medicare pays for the same procedure.

Every year, American families sit down to review their health insurance and brace for the same gut punch: premiums rising, deductibles higher, out-of-pocket maximums climbing. Most accept it as an unavoidable fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Providers are reevaluating their insurer contracts as the Justice Department looks to curb the market power of large health systems through recent lawsuits.

Utah's hospital scene is increasingly controlled by just a handful of big systems, and that tightening grip is changing what care looks like for regular people. A growing share of communities now have only one realistic option for inpatient treatment, and a new analysis suggests that kind of dominance often comes with a familiar side effect: higher bills and fewer choices. State lawmakers, regulators and health systems are staring down a tough question about how hard to push back on the next round of deals.

Utah's health care system is heavily consolidated among a few hospital systems — a dynamic associated with rising costs, according to an analysis from Yale's new Health Care Affordability Lab.

How do we know when spending growth in hospitals is a sign of progress or profiteering? The team at the Yale Health Care Affordability Lab may have found a way to distinguish good mergers from bad ones, and it could help Virginians trying to make health care more affordable.

A study released this month by the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale University is warning a proposed merger between Independence Health System and West Virginia University Health System could lead to a decrease in competition and an increase in health care costs if approved as planned.