Updates

This State Hub for Hospital Pricing Strategies webinar highlighted the growing state momentum on hospital price caps. The following presenters shared an inside look at pre-implementation planning, current implementation experience, and pending legislation to address rapidly rising hospital prices:

• Alena Berube and Kirk Williamson, Vermont Green Mountain Care Board: Commercial market-wide price caps
• Evan Klein, Washington State Health Care Authority: State and school-based employee health plan price caps
• Colin Baillio, New Mexico Health Care Authority: State employee health plan price caps
• Trevor Putnoky, Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine: Pending legislative proposal