Medicare Advantage 2026 Spotlight: A First Look at Plan Premiums and Benefits
This brief provides an overview of premiums and benefits in Medicare Advantage plans that are…
Medicare Advantage 2026 Spotlight: A First Look at Plan Premiums and Benefits
This brief provides an overview of premiums and benefits in Medicare Advantage plans that are available for 2026 and key trends over time.
Medicare Advantage 2026 Spotlight: A First Look at Plan Offerings
This brief provides an overview of the Medicare Advantage plans that are available for 2026 and key trends over time. In 2026, the average Medicare beneficiary has a choice of 32 Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans, two fewer than the 34 in 2025. Virtually all Medicare Advantage plans for 2026 provide multiple extra benefits…
Moving Beyond an Insurance-Based Framework for Healthcare
[Sponsored] In an interview, UberDoc CEO Sean Kearney described how it is carving a niche for healthcare that better serves patients and physicians. The post Moving Beyond an Insurance-Based Framework for Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Rural Health Providers Could Be Collateral Damage From $100K Trump Visa Fee
Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Not one U.S. citizen has applied. West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about 1,000 residents in the southwestern part of the state, has four options, and none is good. The hospital could…
Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with twin girls, something started to feel off. “I kept having to come into the emergency room for…
Out-of-Pocket Pain From High-Deductible Plans Means Skimping on Care
David Garza sometimes feels as if he doesn’t have health insurance now that he pays so much to treat his Type 2 diabetes. His monthly premium payment of $435 for family coverage is roughly the same as the insurance at his previous job. But the policy at his current job carries an annual deductible of…
Types of uncertainty in health economic modelling
There are four primary types of uncertainty in health economic modelling: Heterogeneity: Variation between individuals that can be explained by their characteristicsStochastic uncertainty: Variation between individuals that cannot be explained by their characteristics, Parameter uncertainty: Uncertainty in the estimated values for the parameters that define the modelStructural uncertainty: Uncertainty in model outcomes that arise from…
Is Caring Productive?
That is the title of a paper by Longo et al. (2025). The authors use dynamic panel data on Adult Social Care (ASC) in the UK. What is ASC include: A quick explainer about ASC in the UK: In England, there are 152 upper-tier local authorities (LAs) who are responsible for publicly-funded ASC services. Access…
Theranostics Could Transform Cancer Care, GE Healthcare Leader Says
Theranostics — which combines molecular imaging with targeted therapy — is quickly becoming a significant innovation in cancer care, offering more precise treatment with fewer side effects. GE Healthcare expects the field to grow rapidly over the next decade, as long as hospitals can continue to invest in the imaging and software infrastructure needed to…
At ASH, GSK’s Top Cancer Exec Discusses the FDA’s Different Take on Multiple Myeloma Drug Blenrep
GSK submitted the same Blenrep clinical trial data to global regulators and the FDA, but received a slightly more limited regulatory approval in the U.S. In an interview during the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, GSK oncology executive Hesham Abdullah explained what else the FDA wants from Blenrep clinical trials. The post…
