KEY FINDINGS. Health care quality is largely unrelated to health care price. Four of the five price-quality correlation coefficients were between -0.45 and 0.00, suggesting a negative or null relationship between price and quality. Prices for health care services are generally related, while quality measures are not. All ten price correlations were larger than 0.50 and nine of the ten quality measure correlations were less than 0.35, suggesting states may be characterized as high or low priced, but the level of quality may vary within a state.
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