Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

02/25/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) is pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating 40 years of independent, transparent, and impactful health care reporting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!

Details and Registration available at https://www.phc4.org/about-the-council/phc4s-40-years-of-value-transparency-in-health-care/!

02/24/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) welcomes stakeholders to register and attend at https://www.phc4.org/about-the-council/phc4s-40-years-of-value-transparency-in-health-care/

02/20/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) appreciates the CDC's efforts to share the importance of available, accurate, and timely data in health care. We regularly publish reports that display health care information specific to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, always available at phc4.org.

🚑🏥 Real-time hospital bed data improves patient care coordination, helping hospitals and health systems quickly locate available beds when patients need them most. Fifteen states currently share data and an additional 18 are on track to begin sharing data soon, advancing a key Public Health Data Strategy milestone. https://tinyurl.com/2k23xdw3

02/19/2026

Access the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)'s Hospital Performance Report at https://www.phc4.org/reports/hospital-performance-report-2024/

02/16/2026

02/14/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) wishes all those celebrating a happy holiday!

02/13/2026

Available now at https://www.phc4.org/reports/financial-analysis-fiscal-year-2024/

02/06/2026

https://www.phc4.org/reports/common-procedures-report-2024/

02/03/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) appreciates Kris B. Mamula including our reporting in this recent article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. To access PHC4's archive of fact-based reporting visit phc4.org.
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2026/01/21/pennsylvania-hospital-study-close-2030/stories/202601210047

Inadequate state funding makes running hospitals in Pennsylvania more challenging than in other states, which could contribute to the closure of more than...

01/29/2026

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Email from Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council Let's keep making a difference together! NEWSLETTER January 2026 Special Data Requests Through the Data Requests department, PHC4 offers cu

01/27/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) published a new resource today focusing on the closure of two hospitals in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The newest article in the Current Events series examines clinical, financial, and workforce data in discussion of the impacts of closing hospitals. Access PHC4's article, Hospital Closures, now at https://www.phc4.org/news-and-press-releases/current-events-hospital-closures/

01/22/2026

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) welcomes you to access these reports at https://www.phc4.org/reports/county-level-health-care-reports/