Report

Understanding the Biggest Threats to the No Surprises Act Achieving Its Full Potential

No one should go bankrupt from receiving health care. Yet 60% of people experiencing bankruptcy in America cite medical expenses as a leading cause. Thanks to the No Surprises Act (NSA) of 2020, more ...

The Weight of High Hospital Prices Is Keeping American Workers Underwater

Every worker in America deserves the opportunity to earn a living wage and have access to high-quality and affordable health care that keeps them and their families healthy. Yet high and rising health...

The Human Impact of Payment Reform

The current predominant model for health care payment and delivery encourages one costly medical procedure after another, often embedded with hidden fees and ultimately failing to actually help patien...

Communities Winning the Fight Against Corporate Hospital Pricing Abuses

To make our health care system affordable and accessible to all who use it, we urgently need policy reforms, including those aimed at reining in corporate hospital pricing abuses. Many hospital chains...

Investing in our Moms: Three Ways State Medicaid Programs Can Improve Maternal Health

The United States is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Women are dying at rates the U.S. has not experienced since the 1960s. Maternal mortality rates increased by nearly 38% year-over-year fr...

Health Equity Task Force: 2023 Federal Priorities

The Families USA Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Reform (Health Equity Task Force) brings together the leading organizations on the federal and state level working to ensure that eff...

The Power of Price Transparency: Unveiling Health Care Prices to Promote Accountability and Lower Costs

Every person should have the right to know what a health care procedure costs at different hospitals or health care facilities, whether it is an X-ray, an MRI, or a surgery, yet that is not how it wor...

What It Costs to Have a Baby in America: A State-by-State Analysis

High and rising health care prices are hurting America’s families. These high prices, driven largely by hospital consolidation, drive down workers’ paychecks, rachet up insurance premiums, and for...

Working Toward True Health Care Payment Reform to Ensure Our Health Care System Serves Families and Patients

The way the US pays for health care is a major driver of unaffordable, low-quality care and poor health for our nation's families and individuals. Despite a decade of payment reform, volume-based paym...

How Illinois Can Make Health Insurance More Affordable

Increases in health care costs are negatively impacting individuals and small businesses in Illinois (and in other states) by making health insurance less affordable. This paper, developed by Famil...