The Curious Persistence of Site-Dependent Payments

JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Nov 1;5(11):e243616. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3616.

Barak D Richman^{1

2}, Elizabeth Plummer^{3

4}, Ge Bai^{5

6}

¹ The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC.
² Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
³ Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
⁴ Burnett School of Medicine, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint considers supply- instead of buy-side pressure to address the inflated cost of basic health services provided by hospitals.