AMA, Atalan Collaborate on Physician Retention Research
Researchers will examine how physician perceptions align, or diverge, from day-to-day practice realities and identify factors associated with retention, patient access, and team performance
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Medicare Spending was 27% More for People who Disenrolled from Medicare Advantage than Similar People in Traditional Medicare
This analysis looks at traditional Medicare spending among people who choose to disenroll from Medicare Advantage and obtain coverage under traditional Medicare during the annual Medicare open enrollment period. It compares their traditional Medicare spending (Parts A and B) in the year following disenrollment to similar people who were continuously covered by traditional Medicare, using…
Officials Show Little Proof That New Tech Will Help Medicaid Enrollees Meet Work Rules
This summer, the state of Louisiana texted just over 13,000 people enrolled in its Medicaid program with a link to a website where they could confirm their incomes. The texts were part of a pilot run to test technology the Trump administration says will make it easier for some Medicaid enrollees to prove they meet…
New Jersey Launching Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center
Strategic Innovation Center will focus on solutions in maternal care equity, digital health, doula support, perinatal mental health, and public benefits access
Five New Members Join CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel
New members were chosen just days before vaccine advisers to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meet
Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest estimate shows that the One Big Beautiful Bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million. Previous CBO estimates show that 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2034. Building on prior…
Have we reached ‘peak HEOR’?
That is the title of my guest column at The Evidence Base. An excerpt is below: Multiple indicators suggest that health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) faces unprecedented challenges to its traditional role in pharmaceutical value demonstration. Yet these apparent threats may signal evolution rather than decline – if the field can adapt to serve…
Streamlining Public Benefits Access is a Must to Address Poverty
By ALISTER MARTIN and TARA MENON If a friend were to ask you which state, Massachusetts or Texas, has a more streamlined federal benefits enrollment program, what would your guess be? Having screened over 17,000 families and helped them obtain more than $1.8M in federal and state aid through our work in both Massachusetts and…
Moving Beyond the Mega-Factory: Why the Future of Biomanufacturing is Agile, Distributed, and Resilient
Personalized and highly-targeted therapeutics are becoming more common, making local or regional production increasingly valuable for faster patient access. This underscores how a hybrid network combining large, centralized plants coupled with flexible regional sites will define the next era of resilient biomanufacturing. The post Moving Beyond the Mega-Factory: Why the Future of Biomanufacturing is Agile,…
Schools Aren’t as Plugged In as They Should Be to Kids’ Diabetes Tech, Parents Say
Just a few years ago, children with Type 1 diabetes reported to the school nurse several times a day to get a finger pricked to check whether their blood sugar was dangerously high or low. The introduction of the continuous glucose monitor (CGM) made that unnecessary. The small device, typically attached to the arm, has…