When I joined the KHC staff in 2015, I knew that I had joined a unique organization. Instead of working for an organization with one perspective, the KHC was a convener that worked with stakeholders representing dozens of perspectives. Even within the same organization type, we had competitors literally sitting […]
Affordability
RAND Hospital Price Study Reveals Variation in Kentucky, Southern Indiana
The KHC’s three main organizational strategies are to improve healthcare quality, make healthcare more affordable, and build equitable healthcare communities. As an organization, we have long understood that transparency of information is critical to achieving those strategies. One aspect of transparency relates to hospital costs. This month the KHC hosted […]
Transparency Studies and Tools Reveal Variation in Quality, Safety, Price
The KHC’s three main organizational strategies are to improve healthcare quality, make healthcare more affordable, and build equitable healthcare communities. As an organization, we have long understood that transparency of information is critical to achieving those strategies. This spring, a variety of studies and tools with important information about healthcare […]
KHC Highlights Hospital Prices in Recent Forum
Last night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast featured a lawsuit over the consolidation of a large health system in Northern California, which used its monopolistic capabilities to drive up the price of healthcare. The segment included KHC friend and past conference speaker Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO for the Pacific Business Group on Health, […]
Hospital Price Study Reveals Kentucky Lower than National Rates but Disconnect Between Quality and Cost in Kentucky’s Hospitals
Prices paid by employers to Kentucky hospitals continue to be less than the national average but more than twice the rate paid to Medicare, while quality still lags behind the rest of the country, according to a national study released this month. RAND 3.0, the third in a series of […]
Driving Affordability Through Hospital Price Transparency
A Community Health Forum December 1, 2020 U.S. employers spend billions of dollars on healthcare services. However, a lack of information limits the ability of employers to monitor the prices negotiated on their behalf, to implement innovative insurance benefit designs, and to ensure insurers are negotiating favorable prices. If employers […]
Recent Studies Reveal Variation in Price and Quality Among Kentucky’s Hospitals
New Hospital Safety Grade state rankings by the nonprofit The Leapfrog Group shows Kentucky ranks 33rd in overall hospital safety. This, when paired with the new study released last week by RAND, reiterates that hospitals in the Commonwealth vary in both price and quality.
Action items to address healthcare affordability in the region identified at Community Health Forum
It’s no secret that we have a problem with healthcare affordability in this country. Each day, there are new headlines that highlight this problem. We are all familiar with these headlines. But what do we do about it? That’s exactly what we addressed in last week’s Community Health Forum, “The […]
KHC Joins Coalitions Across the Country to Address Healthcare Affordability
Kentucky, like the rest of the United States, has a problem. Healthcare costs continue to rise. However, paying more for healthcare does not mean we get better healthcare services, and it does not mean we are healthier as a result. We pay too much for care and it is causing financial, […]
