ERIC Highlights Consolidation As Cost Driver, Calls For Site Neutrality, Price Transparency

By Amy Lotven / May 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Hospital costs are primarily driven by market power and consolidation, not by cost-shifting, and Congress can crack down on hospital market concentration by enhancing price transparency, equalizing Medicare pay and barring anticompetitive contracts, the employer lobby ERIC says in a new white paper out Tuesday (May 20).


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