Ge Bai ([email protected]) is an associate professor of accounting in the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, in Baltimore, Maryland. Gerard F. Anderson is a professor in the Department of Health ...

Most major insurers operate in both the commercial health insurance and Medicare Advantage (MA) markets. We investigated the ratio of commercial-to-MA prices negotiated by the same insurer, in the ...

Hospital price transparency data suggest that health insurance exchange (HIX) plans get lower negotiated rates than commercial group plans and higher negotiated rates than Medicare Advantage plans.

If you live in the United States, the closest hospital to you is most likely a privately operated nonprofit institution. Such hospitals are eligible to receive valuable tax exemptions in exchange for ...