How Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Brought Stability Amid Change

Health Affairs ' Rob Lott interviews Roslyn Murray of Brown University to discuss her paper exploring how Oregon’s 2019 hospital payment cap saved $50 million annually while having little impact on hospital finances, operations, or patient care. Order the December 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcast for everyone.

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How Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Brought Stability Amid Change is an episode from A Health Podyssey by Health Affairs.

This episode is 24:26 long.

This episode was published on Jan 20, 2026.

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