By Rachel Cohen Booth
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Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research
Roslyn C. Murray Ph.D., MPP
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
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.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Hospital price caps gain momentum across states
by Alan Condon
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The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon’s first-in-nation hospital price cap hasn’t hurt care, finances so far, study finds
By Kristine de Leon
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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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