Prescription for Healthcare – Danielle Bargo, DrPH Candidate, “Indiana’s Inequitable Hospital Charges” September, 2024

This month we interview Danielle Bargo,  native Hoosier, health economist, and a doctoral student in health policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She published an article last year in the Indianapolis Capital Chronicle, “Why do Indiana hospitals charge more in poorer communities?”  Using Indiana University Health as an example she discusses the issues around how hospitals set their prices in Indiana, and we discuss the example of Maryland where a commission sets hospital prices uniformly throughout the state.