The Manatt State Cost Containment Update

Welcome to the Manatt State Cost Containment Update, a digital publication produced with generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in collaboration with the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs. This Manatt series, to be released quarterly through 2022, shares the latest updates on state cost growth benchmarking programs and other data-driven initiatives states are undertaking to contain health care cost growth. In each edition, we also feature a spotlight issue that speaks to how state benchmarking programs are collectively evolving to meet new regulatory or landscape needs. Below are our May updates. A PDF of our update is also available here.

	Manatt Spotlights Read Manatt Health’s deep dives on key issues and lessons emerging from state benchmarking programs
	State Benchmarking Updates: The State of Play See the latest legislative and programmatic health care cost growth benchmarking developments across states
	Health Data Corner See the latest in health data updates, developments and innovations
	Additional Resources Browse reports, white papers, and other resources that states, thought leaders, and others have recently published on cost growth benchmarking and improving health care affordability

In Case You Missed It

• February 2022 Manatt State Cost Containment Update: Leveraging APCDs and Other Data
• October 2021 Manatt State Cost Containment Update: Accountability and Consumer Affordability

Manatt Publications

• State Benchmarking Models Promising Practices to Understand and Address Health Care Cost Growth, June 2021
• Implementing a Statewide Healthcare Cost Benchmark, December 2019

Manatt Webinars

• A New Era of Accountability: Lessons From the CA Health Care Quality and Affordability Act, September 2022
• State Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarking: New Strategies to Drive Transparency and Accountability, July 2022
• State Cost Growth Benchmarking Models: Understanding and Addressing Health Care Cost Growth, June 2021
• Leveraging State Benchmarking Models to Address Health Care Cost Growth, April 2022

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