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Increased Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries

By Laura M. Keohane, PhD, MS
Emma M. Achola, PhD

February 4th 2026

Increasing Medicare Advantage payments for full Medicaid enrollees was not associated with meaningful changes in inpatient or nursing home use.

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PBM Reforms Signed Into Law, Reshaping Medicare Part D Drug Pricing Transparency

By Sabrina McCrear

February 3rd 2026

Contributor: The Majority (57.5%) of Commercially Insured Patients Had 1 or More Chronic Conditions in 2024

By Ray Campbell, JD

February 2nd 2026

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CMS Proposes Nearly Flat 2027 Medicare Advantage Payment Rates

By Sabrina McCrear

January 27th 2026

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FAQ: What to Know About the Vaccine Rollbacks and What They Mean Long-Term

By Julia Bonavitacola

January 27th 2026

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Social Security's Financial Health Worsens

April 24th 2012

Social Security, Medicare Strained by Slow Economic Recovery, Aging Workforce

April 23rd 2012

Medicare To Tie Doctors' Pay To Quality, Cost Of Care

April 16th 2012

Blazing a Trail: Pioneer ACOs Test Strategies with Five Pay Options

April 12th 2012

CMS Posts Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures

April 11th 2012

ACOs Multiply As Medicare Announces 27 New Ones

April 11th 2012

Healthcare Law Will Add $340 Billion to Deficit, New Study Finds

April 10th 2012

The Individual Mandate's Growth In Unpopularity

April 2nd 2012

Study: Pay-for-Performance Did Not Reduce Deaths in Medicare Pilot Program

March 30th 2012

Hospital Groups Will Get Bigger, Moody's Predicts

March 8th 2012

Obama's Hospital Funding Cuts Seen Worsening Primary Care Doctor Shortage

March 2nd 2012

Care by Cell Phone: Text Messaging for Chronic Disease Management

Henry H. Fischer, MD;Susan L. Moore, MSPH;David Ginosar, MD;Arthur J. Davidson, MD, MSPH;Cecilia M. Rice-Peterson, RN, BSN;Michael J. Durfee, MSPH;Thomas D. MacKenzie, MD, MSPH;Raymond O. Estacio, MD;Andrew W. Steele, MD, MPH, MSc

February 28th 2012

Cell phoneâ€œbased text messaging may be used to feasibly support chronic disease management and engagement in diabetes self-care behaviors for some patients.

Hospital Readmission Rates in Medicare Advantage Plans

Jeff Lemieux, MA;Cary Sennett, MD;Ray Wang, MS;Teresa Mulligan, MHSA;Jon Bumbaugh, MA

February 27th 2012

Hospital readmission rates in Medicare Advantage plans are considerably lower than those in Medicare's traditional fee-for-service program, after accounting for differences in risk.

A Shift From Nursing Homes to Managed Care at Home

February 24th 2012

Cardiologists Not Happy With SGR 'Fix'

February 23rd 2012

Hospitals Hit too Hard in SGR Deal

February 17th 2012

Lawmakers Nearing SGR Deal

February 15th 2012

Med Students Urge Congress to Find SGR Fix

February 14th 2012

SGR: The Formula that Wouldn't Die

February 13th 2012