I'm very excited for tomorrow's webinar sharing insights from previously inaccessible data about health insurers' prices, alongside insights about #healthcare quality buff.ly/ylEQN45 #healthpolicy #healthecon

Survey of employers find many neglect even basic fiduciary obligations as #healthcare purchasers, which may explain their poor performance in controlling costs and ensuring quality pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40916515/ #healthpolicy #healthecon #erisa

New survey of employers who are involved in the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions finds that those with more complete access to their #healthcare claims data are more likely to use direct contracting, centers of excellence, reference pricing, and tiered networks buff.ly/gJc58Wj

Interested in learning how employers are using #healthcare price and quality data to make smarter purchasing decisions? Join PBGH & the Peterson Center on Healthcare on Sept 24 at 12:30ET to hear from PBGH employer-members Boeing, Qualcomm, and the City and County of Denver

📌 Spotlight on September's #LipidoftheMonth could be a biomarker for one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases of aging👃 lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

Are earnings for apprenticeships really higher than earnings from college degrees? According to new analysis from @publicagenda.bsky.social, the idea that apprenticeship programs offer higher earnings than college degrees is misleading buff.ly/BDwPGE3 #highereducation #workforce

Trillium Health analysis found #hospitals accept different prices from different payers for the same procedure. E.g. Tufts Medical Center charges Aetna $95,989 for coronary bypass involving major complications or comorbidities & charges United $144,204 buff.ly/CG5obGU #healthcare #healthpolicy

Enterprising state legislators should be pushing bills that protect doctors and other clinicians against retaliation when they call out insurance company abuses. It's the right thing to do, and it's a good issue. open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

@academyhealth.bsky.social & co-plaintiffs announced today that the HHS has agreed to restore federal webpages removed from NIH, CDC, and FDA sites earlier this year bit.ly/463UVO8 #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Check out research from @publicagenda.bsky.social on how difficult is it for people with to find in-network mental #healthcare providers and how delays and challenges in accessing care affect people’s lives buff.ly/lEpqtnh #healthcare #healthpolicy #networkadequacy

"New York state officials have negotiated a corrective action plan agreement with... MVP Health Plan after having trouble finding any mental health care providers in the plan's directory who were accepting new patients." #healthcare #healthpolicy #networkadequacy buff.ly/jRA4pe4

For the first time in its history, Health Datapalooza will proceed without federal officials on the main stage, via @academyhealth.bsky.social buff.ly/cZu3vwD #healthpolicy #healthcare

Only 16 percent of college students live on campus. 25 percent live with their parents.

20 percent of all undergraduate college students are parents. 9% are single moms buff.ly/5R3VdoZ

43% of college students are community college students buff.ly/5R3VdoZ

Those of us who went to a selective college for four years on a leafy campus are the outliers, not the norm

Medicaid, Medicare and individual coverage sold through ACA exchanges dominate #healthcare policy conversations today. But in a survey of small and medium business owners, only 12% said they were confident that they would still be able to offer #healthinsurance coverage in 3 years buff.ly/2pjODoA

The National Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Went Dead. States Are Scrambling To Help, via @kffhealthnews.org buff.ly/cwlXGtE?

"With upfront prices, employers and unions can design a benefit where workers get the best quality, lowest price care, and share savings in the form of reduced premiums and higher wages," via Senator Robert Marshall in @statnews.com buff.ly/SN6flYN #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Many employers neglect basic fiduciary obligations to their employees, which may explain the poor performance #healthcare plans in controlling costs & providing access care, suggesting many employers may be vulnerable to ERISA lawsuits buff.ly/p3IXWcY #healthinsurance #healthpolicy #healthecon

According to a new survey, many U.S. employers have failed to take even basic steps to perform the duties expected of health plan fiduciaries, or even to try to save themselves some money buff.ly/pEkLUwF #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

I love that this legal decision turns at least in part on a dispute about whether 3.749565 should be rounded down to 3.5 or up to 4.

Trilliant Health study using transparency in coverage data shows different payers negotiate different rates for the same procedure at the same #hospital. E.g. Aetna's rate for coronary bypass at Tufts is $95,989. UHC's rate is $144,204 at the same hospital buff.ly/V5wfT76 #healthcare #healthecon

How can employers understand their #healthcare spending & purchase affordable, accessible, quality care? PBGH will share insights from their work with 5 employers to access & analyze claims data, quality data, & comparative price data on Sept 24 at 12:30 PM EST. Register at

Clinician documentation in electronic health records disproportionately undermines the credibility of Black patients. More evidence that trying to convince patients to trust clinicians is one-sided. Clinicians need to trust patients, including Black patients. buff.ly/BTAPfI7#heal... #medsky

Employers historically lacked price information when when purchasing and designing #healthinsurance benefits. New data provides employers with opportunities to identify excessively high prices and design benefits or steer employees towards better value care, via @usatoday.com

"Being unhoused is not a personal, moral failure. #Homelessness is a market failure, a housing problem. Rent prices have exceeded income gains by 325% nationally since 1985. Rates of homelessness are tied to rental affordability." via @usatoday.com

Join PBGH on Sept 24 at 12:30 ET for a webinar with insights from their intensive work helping employers analyze and understand claims data, transparency in coverage data, and #healthcare quality data buff.ly/zrV9FSW #healthecon #healthinsurance

Chris Whaley and Todd Gottula discuss using Transparency in Coverage data to investigate how #healthcare prices vary among both insurers and providers buff.ly/B4DBMoQ via @academyhealth.bsky.social #healthecon #healthpolicy #medsky

High #healthcare provider prices lead to high #healthinsurance costs which in turn leads to wage stagnation. Health insurance premiums consumed half of employees' annual compensation increases between 2000 and 2020. Via @healthaffairs.bsky.social buff.ly/YZ0gMHD #medsky #healthpolicy #healthecon

My new essay argues that the "material" abundance @ezraklein.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social rightly champion (housing, clean energy...) can only be achieved if accompanied by CIVIC abundance (robust civil society, meaningful public participation...). #democracy #abundance .com/2025/08/11/t...

"Experts say UnitedHealth’s #Medicare Advantage research may favor its business, citing possible conflicts of interest and restricted access to internal data" via @statnews.com buff.ly/gDqOL9B #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon #medsky

When #hospital beds are scarce, patients “board” in emergency depts. until an inpatient bed becomes available. A study in @healthaffairs.bsky.social shows that in Jan 2022, 40.1% of patients boarded for more than 4 hours, and 6.3% boarded for more than 24 hours buff.ly/LE9GYgz #healthcare

Half of Americans get #healthinsurance through their employers, who must ensure health plan funds are spent on reasonable expenses for high-quality #healthcare. But insurance carriers, PBMs, and TPAs have historically operated with little transparency

In its most recent legislative session, #indiana passed historic #healthcare reforms including banning establishing fiduciary duty for TPAs and PBMs buff.ly/zdTkfWQ #healthecon

In its most recent legislative session, #indiana passed historic #healthcare reforms including banning “all-or-nothing” and anti-steering contract clauses that limit employers' abilities to navigate employees towards high-value #hospitals and other sites of care buff.ly/zdTkfWQ #healthecon

In its most recent legislative session, #indiana passed historic #healthcare reforms including requiring nonprofit #hospitals to align their prices with statewide averages by 2029 or lose their state tax-exempt status buff.ly/zdTkfWQ #healthecon

I grew up hearing relatives describe feeling brushed off in clinics and spoken to like their concerns were a nuisance. Those stories pushed me toward a PhD in Population Health Sciences and my 1st project on discrimination in healthcare. @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad to share @academyhealth.bsky.social’s new series on connecting researchers with data for social good. The first post explores data costs, policy impact and access: buff.ly/xAsUdBp #HealthEquity #DataForGood #OpenData #SocialImpact

I'm glad to see the #communitycollege sector getting this coverage. 40% of college students are community college students. Selective colleges are a drop in the bucket by comparison. Community colleges provide skilled trade & vocational programs & are engines of economic opportunity

"CMS inches toward establishing national provider directory" buff.ly/MdWU5nc #healthcare #healthinsurance #healtheconomics

A new fiduciary lawsuit, Barbich v. Northwestern University, has a new twist: Employee plaintiffs allege that the university violated ERISA fiduciary duties by offering an allegedly imprudent health plan option buff.ly/qI6IOBi #healthcare #healthinsurance #healthpolicy #healthecon

Disappointed by a TX judge's ruling requiring #medicalDebt (which burdens 1️⃣in 3️⃣ Americans) stay on credit reports. Getting sick, having a car accident, or facing cancer shouldn't leave a black cloud over your financial future for the rest of your life... but it routinely does. #financialToxicity

New Lumina/Gallup survey data show a slight uptick in the share of respondents who have confidence in higher education, with Republicans giving much more support to community colleges than four-year institutions. It's a rare bit of good news for the sector. news.gallup.com/poll/692519/...

Great piece about what people with employer-sponsored #healthinsurance think employers should do to address #healthcare prices from Shawn Gremminger and my former colleagues @seligsohn.bsky.social and Dickson Su at @publicagenda.bsky.social buff.ly/ylo9CVR Complete survey findings: buff.ly/9xcqsiz

Great obit for Lucian Leape, whose insights into medical mistakes in the 1990s gave rise to the field of patient safety buff.ly/pejbRTF #healthcare #healthpolicy #medsky

"Inflation in America is in part a health care affordability crisis in disguise. If we want to bring down the costs of goods and services, we can start with reforming the health care system that drives up costs across the economy." #healthcare #healtheconomics #healthpolicy buff.ly/WsApxAf

DOL, HHS, Treasury released updated guidance and are seeking input from stakeholders aimed at creating consistent transparency for the prices of medical services and prescription drugs www.plansponsor.com/dol-hhs-trea...

Last week, Public Agenda President @seligsohn.bsky.social joined WCPT's Richard Chew to discuss new research on Americans' views on the rule of law, as well as a bipartisan majority's belief in the need to compromise. Listen to their conversation here: omny.fm/shows/chewsv...