Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research

Roslyn C. Murray Ph.D., MPP

Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
roslyn_murray@brown.edu
Research Profile

Biography

Roslyn Murray is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health care spending, private insurance markets, and state policies aimed at curbing commercial health care prices, with work published in journals including Health Affairs and JAMA Health Forum.

Recent News

The Providence Journal

A colonoscopy costs nearly eight times more at one RI hospital than another. Why?

This article quotes Brown University researchers Chris Whaley and Roslyn Murray from the CAHPR, who explain that wide hospital price differences across Rhode Island stem less from care quality and more from market consolidation. Whaley noted that “there’s really not a strong relationship between price and quality,” while Murray pointed to “empire-building tactics” and consolidation that give large health systems leverage to raise prices and obscure transparency
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Modern Healthcare

States push hospital price caps to rein in spending

Several states are adopting hospital price caps to curb rising healthcare costs, citing limited success from other reforms. Supporters see savings, while hospitals warn of revenue loss and service cuts. See what CAHPR's Roslyn Murray, Ph.D. has to say.
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