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3rd Annual ACA Consumer Value State Rankings
The story of consumer value in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual marketplaces echoes one of the great epochs of our nation’s history where a sense of manifest destiny culminated in a [...]
Are We In For Some Significant Health Cost Increases?
Health care costs continue to increase faster than the rest of the economy. Recent projections by the CMS Office of the actuary show that US health care is pushing towards a 20% [...]
A Provider’s Primer for Shared Savings Arrangements
Shared savings arrangements have increased in popularity as healthcare shifts towards value-based care. In its most basic form, the total healthcare costs of members associated (i.e., or those attributed) with a provider group [...]
Value-Based Care’s Impact on Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
Provider reimbursement models are evolving as the healthcare system attempts to combat rapidly rising healthcare costs. A major development has been the push towards value-based care (VBC). Value-based payment arrangements can take [...]
COVID Christmas Gifts
As we sit here in December 2021 COVID is still active and cases appear to be climbing in certain pockets of the United States. In early 2020, when the pandemic began, few of [...]
Impressions of the ACA: The 1st Year of the 2nd Decade
“A subsidy works if it gets someone to buy something they otherwise wouldn’t buy. Any additional subsidy beyond what is needed to change behavior is wasted.” – Gabriel McGlamery I cannot help [...]