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The hospital sector accounts for the largest share of U.S. health care spending with nearly 1 in 3 health care dollars spent on hospitals.

West Virginia University Medicine’s pending takeover of Independence Health System would reduce competition and likely drive up patient costs, according to the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale.

Colorado's health care system is heavily consolidated among a few hospital systems, a dynamic that is raising concerns among state lawmakers.

Yale's Health Care Affordability Lab says the combination would reduce competition and likely increase premiums. Pennsylvania has seen 35 so-called red zone mergers.

Highly concentrated—and, by extension, less economically competitive—hospital markets are ubiquitous across the country and the norm in rural states Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota, according to a market analysis tool unveiled this week by Yale University’s recently launched Health Care Affordability Lab.

The newly launched Health Care Affordability Lab within New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy released a tool March 9 that allows users to explore hospital mergers, closures, ownership changes and market concentration across all 50 states.

Every hospital in North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming is in a highly concentrated market, according to a blog post from Yale's new Health Care Affordability Lab.

In this interview, Zack Cooper, PhD, associate professor of public health and economics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, explains why he believes the growth in hospital prices is driving high healthcare costs.

The Yale School of Public Health article “Translating science” explains how researchers at YSPH are actively working with communities and partners to turn scientific evidence into practical public health actions that improve health outcomes in the real world.