The Medicare Part D program provides an outpatient prescription drug benefit to 56 million older adults and people with long-term disabilities in Medicare who enroll in private plans. This brief analyzes Medicare Part D enrollment, premiums, and cost sharing in 2026 and trends over time, based on data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
This interactive tracks announced insurer exits from and entries into the ACA Marketplaces for 2027.
This brief features maps showing how insurer participation has changed at the state and county level from 2025 to 2026 as well as insight into the number of issuers offering plans at specific metal levels.
Two recent federal actions, including a memo about alleged COVID-19 vaccine deaths and settlements creating a “detransition clinic,” show how official actions can present uncertain or uncommon outcomes as representative and lend credibility to narratives that go beyond what evidence supports.
This budget summary provides an analysis of global health funding amounts provided in the FY 2027 House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) appropriations bill and accompanying report.
This analysis assesses the magnitude of combined U.S. and Global Fund funding cuts between 2026 and 2029, relative to prior funding levels, in 29 countries with signed MOUs and available data.
This brief describes recent HHS actions (state-specific and nationwide) related to Medicaid program integrity and outlines some open questions about the future of Medicaid program integrity, including which states might become a focus of administration effort.
How do we know if AI use in health care actually makes patients better? Chip talks with Dr. David Bates — a veteran physician leader at Mass General Brigham and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Co-director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems — about measuring patient outcomes reliably and in…
This brief provides an update on Planned Parenthood closures and participation in the Title X program in the midst of substantial policy changes leading to decreased funding for Planned Parenthood including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the withholding of federal Title X funding to Planned Parenthood clinics.
This brief provides information about Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, including premiums, out-of-pocket limits, supplemental benefits, and prior authorization, as well as trends over time.