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November 18, 2025
Limited Network Options Offered to Employers Can Result in Thousands More for the Same Healthcare Service
With the advent of health plan price transparency, the cost of a provider network is now knowable, but rarely known.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Matt Ikard
StudiesNovember 03, 2025
Growth in Emerging Chronic Conditions Signals a General Sense of Unwellness
Collectively, the challenge for health economy stakeholders is to consider its poor performance in managing predictable chronic health conditions.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Austin Miller
StudiesOctober 27, 2025
Projected Population Change and Market-Level Incidence Rates Influence Healthcare Demand
The lack of correlation between population trends and surgical incidence rates challenges assumptions about long-term growth in healthcare demand.
Katie Patton • Austin Miller • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesOctober 17, 2025
Hospital Administrative Expenditures Exceed Direct Patient Care by Nearly 2x
Administrative expenditures at U.S. hospitals grew 87.2% from 2011 to 2023, outpacing direct patient care spending growth.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesOctober 13, 2025
How Regression to the Mean in Commercial Rates Would Impact Healthcare Costs
Although the hospital with the highest market share had the highest UHC rate, its Aetna rate was lower than two hospitals with lower market share.
Katie Patton • Matt Ikard • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Jim Browne
StudiesSeptember 29, 2025
Younger Adults and Women Drive Growth in Nutrition Services
Data suggests that health economy stakeholders view nutrition as an ancillary service instead of the cornerstone of chronic disease prevention.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Colin Macon
StudiesSeptember 22, 2025
Market Trends in Private Equity-Backed Healthcare, With Insights From Home Health
Scrutiny of the role of private equity (PE) firms in healthcare has increased in parallel with their investments in healthcare services.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D.
StudiesSeptember 15, 2025
The Proposed Elimination of the Inpatient Only List Will Further Accelerate the Shift of Surgeries to Outpatient Settings
CMS’s proposal to phase out the IPO list beginning in 2026 is expected to accelerate the shift of surgical care from inpatient to HOPDs and ASCs.
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Austin Miller
StudiesSeptember 08, 2025
Surgical Procedures Are Increasingly Imperiled by New Pharmaceuticals
Rising GLP-1 use across the surgical patient care journey suggests increasing integration of pharmacologic treatment in weight management strategies
Katie Patton • Allison Oakes, Ph.D. • Austin Miller
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