Comparison of Commercial Negotiated Price and Cash Price Between Physician-Owned Hospitals and Other Hospitals in the Same Hospital Referral Region

Yang Wang; Elizabeth Plummer; Yuchen Wang; Peter Cram; Ge Bai

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.19980

Comparison of Commercial Negotiated Price and Cash Price Between Physician-Owned Hospitals and Other Hospitals in the Same Hospital Referral Region

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 1;6(6):e2319980. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.19980.

Authors

Yang Wang¹, Elizabeth Plummer^{2

3}, Yuchen Wang¹, Peter Cram^{4

5}, Ge Bai^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
³ Burnett School of Medicine, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
⁴ John Sealy School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares commercial negotiated prices and cash prices between physician-owned hospitals and other hospitals in the same hospital referral region (HRR) using price information available through the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.

MeSH terms

Health Expenditures*
Hospitals
Humans
Physicians*