Lowering the cost of insurance in Colorado – a new analysis of the Peak Health Alliance

By Mark Meiselbach, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Matthew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

A community-led partnership in Colorado designed to negotiate health care prices lowered health care premiums in 2020 and 2021, we find in our new paper in the Journal of Risk and Insurance. The nonprofit organization is called the Peak Health Alliance.

As health care premiums continue to rise nationwide, many employers have formed so-called purchasing alliances in…

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