2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (223+ words) Integrated care programs for dual-eligible beneficiaries, including ACO LEAD, aim to incentivize efficient care delivery while preventing unintended cost shifting between Medicare and Medicaid. How LEAD calculates shared savings and losses will be central to achieving both goals. First, a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (708+ words) Americans are being crushed by medical costs. Affordability of medical care is now the No. 1 public concern, higher than the cost of food, rent, or utilities. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with medical costs. You know the problem is…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (122+ words) Penn LDI Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise or Pitfall A Conversation with Sherry Glied, PhD, and Stephen Parente, PhD, MPH As policymakers consider how to expand health insurance coverage, some have promoted consumer-directed approaches such as Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), tax-advantaged…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (470+ words) Health Care Payment and Financing It is generally recognized that the first goal has been successful, and patients are now largely protected from surprise billing. The second feature of the law — the IDR arbitration system — however, is widely viewed as…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (20+ words) Health policy experts discuss how CMS could prevent temporary spending shocks in FFS Medicare from impacting future Medicare Advantage payments....

6+ mon, 2+ day ago   (929+ words) Briefing: Delivered to the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors Report from His Penn Fireside Chat with Ezekiel Emanuel about Drug Pricing A New Review Finds Hospital Mergers Raise Prices Without Improving Care, and Urges Regulators to Stop Accepting…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (613+ words) Health insurers choose the counties where they sell plans on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces. As a result, many people find they have fewer health insurance options than their neighbors in the next county, a new LDI study found....