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The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2023 Hospital Safety Grades Announced: 16 Houston Area Hospitals Earn an A
Houston | November 6, 2023
Texas ranked 10th in the country with 38% of hospitals statewide achieving an A grade…
Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare Celebrates House Bill 711 is Law, Legislation will Lower Healthcare Prices for Texans
Houston | June 20, 2023
Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare (TXEAHC) applauds House Bill 711 becoming law. The legislation which addresses anti-competitive contract…
Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare Shines Light on High Hospital Prices with New Transparency Dashboard
Houston | April 25, 2023
The median price Texas employers pay for hospital care is 315% of what Medicare pays. Strikingly, the median breakeven amount – the payment…
Houston Business Coalition on Health Launches Report Card to Help Consumers and Employers Find the Region’s Safest Hospitals
Houston | May 3, 2023
The Leapfrog Group Spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grades were also released finding the average risk of three of the most harmful healthcare-associated..
Houston Employers Pay Hospitals More than Twice the Medicare Rate, Needlessly Reaping Large Profits from Commercial Payers
Houston | June 8, 2022
In Texas, the prices paid to hospitals for privately insured patients by
employers averaged 252% of what Medicare would have paid. These are…
Houston Spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Patient Safety Grades Announced
Houston | May 10, 2022
State falls to 22 from 16 for US ranking of states with highest number of A graded hospitals