Private equity (PE) acquisitions of health care providers are often framed as a monolithic intervention, but firms’ strategies for generating returns for investors may vary. In a ...

Consolidation of physician practices, largely driven by health systems, has motivated policy efforts to move care toward lower-price, non–health system settings. At the same time, however, private ...

Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...

While evidence-based decisions are essential, they must be paired with effective public messaging that builds trust and ...

This article does not attempt to predict the potential policies that the new administration and Congress might pursue or how ...

Thomas C. Buchmueller ([email protected]) is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Helen G.

Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending ...

Given the prevalence of managed care, it’s incumbent upon the industry to ensure that there is a robust supplier pool.

We examine key lessons on medical-dental integration from the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

Transparency in the program is more than just a mechanism for fair pricing—it is a driving force that diminishes the returns ...