When it wrapped up its 2023 legislative session, the Kentucky General Assembly missed a vital opportunity to take an important step in tackling one of the most significant issues facing the Commonwealth, its vital business sector, and its working families: the high and rising cost of health care. Let’s start […]
Affordability
Enrollment for RAND 5.0 Hospital Price Transparency Study Now Open
The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative has partnered with the Employer’s Forum of Indiana and other employers and employer-led coalitions since RAND 2.0. Each year, as more and more employers, health plans, business coalitions and all-payer-claims databases submit data the information has become more robust. Enrollment for RAND 5.0 is currently open, […]
KHC Releases Policy Brief: “Unbridled Costs: The Economic Toll of High Hospital Prices in Kentucky”
The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative has released a new policy brief, “Unbridled Costs: The Economic Toll of High Hospital Prices in Kentucky.” Kentucky employers, workers, and families face rising healthcarecosts that undermine wages and employer competitiveness. Annualpremiums for employer-sponsored health insurance now exceed anastonishing $20,000 per family in Kentucky — a […]
KHC to Convene Conversation on the Path to a High Value, Affordable System of Health
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 […]
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 […]
