The Solomon Report measures what public healthcare pricing data actually shows. Hospital prices and Medicare rates are public records. The Report puts them side by side.
94.8% of 57,502 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare, the highest of twelve states.
89.1% of 429,884 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare, tied with Indiana for fourth of eleven states.
First report published under version 1.1.
77.5% of 90,738 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare, seventh of ten states. Idaho's 22 critical access hospitals price above the line 66.4% of the time. Its other hospitals, 85.7%.
First report published under the Solomon Standard
60.3% of 56,268 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare's national rate, the lowest share in the series. In the one state where a commission sets rates for every payer, more than half of hospitals price a head CT below Medicare's national rate.
94.4% of 201,400 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare, the highest rate in the series. The price moves with ownership, not geography.
69.2% of 73,473 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare. In New York City the share is 94.3%, higher than any statewide figure in the series. In Buffalo it is 48.6%, lower than any.
93.8% of 196,545 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare. The second highest rate in the series. The first report to identify what each payer class pays inside the hospital's own files.
85.1% of 155,422 benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare. The first report in the series to measure inpatient pricing, benchmarked against SCAN Health Plan's California contracts.
62.6% of benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare. The lowest rate in the series.
94.1% of benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare. The highest rate in the series.
93.2% of benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare.
86.8% of benchmarkable list prices exceed 260% of Medicare, the threshold Indiana wrote into law.
Twelve states measured. More to come, each under the Solomon Standard.