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Study: Hospital costs vary widely nationwide, Capital Region in the middle

15 December 2015

Economists at Yale, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics have released a paper that shows vast differences in charges for hospital procedures across the country. Unlike some previous studies, the research by Martin Gaynor of Carnegie Mellon and Zack Cooper of Yale is based on the actual amount that insurers negotiated for various procedures. Other analyses have been based on such information as what hospital the hospitals charge - which is not the fees that insurance companies actually negotiate and pay.

This article was published online by the Albany Times Union blog on December 15, 2015
Link to article here

Related publications
'The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured', Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1395, December 2015

Related links
Zack Cooper webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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