"Employers flex healthcare muscles on Capitol Hill as costs spike" bit.ly/41MZB9u #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

Maryland state affordability board sets its first price cap for a medicine: The board will oversee a process to lower the cost of Jardiance by January 2027, via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

After Man’s Death Following Insurance Denials, West Virginia Tackles Prior Authorization bit.ly/4bPCjpu #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Glad to work with Raymond Tsai on this overview of how transparent #healthcare price data can empower employers to compare prices across insurance carriers www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"The Trump administration could also build on the PBM reforms and proposed DOL rules by exploring whether similar transparency standards should apply to TPAs and claims administrators." www.newsweek.com/pbm-reform-w... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Raymond Tsai & I have a new article in Population Health, Equity & Outcomes about how transparent #healthcare price data helps employers compare actual negotiated rates, not just discounts, driving smarter purchasing www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

April's #lipidofthemonth is firapolol, an extremely unusual lipid molecule from the saliva of Draig goch, a native, but very rare, Welsh reptile lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi... via @lipidmaps.bsky.social

For the first time, payers must publicly post data on how often they deny prior authorization requests, how quickly they process them, and how often denials are overturned on appeal. The first reports are due March 31. buff.ly/Gha941S #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

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Hospitals feel the heat over anticompetitive contracting www.axios.com/2026/03/31/h... via @axios.com #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Hospitals accounted for 32% of U.S. health care cost growth between 2005 and 2024, and 61% of the cost growth was attributable to increased prices, rather than to an increase in the amount of care provided" buff.ly/jfofQAR #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"The states pushing hospital price caps despite opposition" buff.ly/RQ0TCgH #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Hospitals' anticompetitive contracting policies increase #healthcare costs. DOJ has filed antitrust suits against New York-Presbyterian and OhioHealth, and may file in other states where large hospita systems have significant market power bit.ly/3NBQxkt #healthecon #healthpolicy

The complaint claims NewYork-Presbyterian uses its market power to force insurers into contracts that prevent payers from offering plans that do not include New York-Presbyterian or from offering lower copays when patients chose to receive care from lower-priced rivals. bit.ly/4bAcaL8 #healthcare

The US DOJ is suing New York-Presbyterian Hospital "for anticompetitive contracts that increase healthcare costs for New Yorkers" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi... #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men. Female Ph.D. students and assistant professors saw disproportionate impacts www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n... Via @statnews.com

Happy birthday to the NYC legend, Wendy S. Sample

"Leapfrog Group’s legal defeat underscores challenges of rating hospital quality" www.statnews.com/2026/03/13/l... via @statnews.com #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

The Peterson Center on Healthcare is supporting the launch of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale buff.ly/YCX3NiV #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon @yalehealthlab.bsky.social

"One-Third of Americans Cut Back to Cover Healthcare Expenses: Cost of healthcare also causing many to delay pursuing milestones and life-enhancing goals," buff.ly/adneysT #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Culture at Columbia Shielded Sexual Assault by Physician, Report Finds. Two doctors affiliated with the university and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down after an external report found that the administrators mishandled allegations of abuse against Robert Hadden" buff.ly/ZkYzm82 #healthcare

"A federal judge has ruled against the Leapfrog Group in a suit brought by Tenet Healthcare subsidiary hospitals that said they were punished for not voluntarily submitting data to the hospital safety grading nonprofit." buff.ly/buq7L4c #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

A new white paper from Simple Healthcare provides recommendations for improving the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data that commercial health plans are required to release buff.ly/bn2ysET #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

The Depts of Health and Human Services, Treasury, Labor released a proposed rule to update Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data reporting requirements to make TiC data more usable. Check out the Peterson Center on Healthcare's response to the proposed rule buff.ly/RCvj2bg #healthcare #healthpolicy

“The changes will have ripple effects… The cost of thousands of people losing their insurance will have to be absorbed by other parts of the public health system. “This is really an economic disaster, a public health disaster, a moral disaster,” said Esteban Wood”

"The No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution system is expensive, slow and usually favors the health care providers." buff.ly/T94GYvQ #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

I’m looking forward to the conversation about price transparency and fiduciary responsibilities at today’s SIIA conference buff.ly/p5z6Rnc #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

Patients are suing insurers over 'ghost networks.' buff.ly/IlHzaeM. Research by @publicagenda.bsky.social explores how challenges finding in-network #healthcare providers affect people's mental health, relationships, work, physical health, and finances buff.ly/B54i3ek #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Cancer treatment costs declined as much as 8.2% in cities where most hospitals published complete pricing data for oncology services." www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

Departments of HHS, Labor, and Treasury extended the public comment period for the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) proposed rule to March 2, 2026. The rule can be accessed here: buff.ly/tsApCwF. The notice can be accessed here: buff.ly/vaHUgMh #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

"Report shows weak hospital and health plan price transparency across 10 US markets" buff.ly/ljP6SJU #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy

I'm looking forward to this conversation about health plan sponsors' and vendors' fiduciary duties at the Self-Insurance Institute of America's price transparency forum on Feb 26 www.siia.org/i4a/pages/in... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

Like this anonymous NFL player, many people don't know that Puerto Ricans are American citizens. This new @pewresearch.org explainer answers common questions about Puerto Rico and its people: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"The cost of health care, not food or rent, is now Americans’ top worry," via @washingtonpost.com buff.ly/jDZwwxJ #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

HIV/AIDS activists heralded approval of a new twice-yearly pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication last year, but these celebrations were tempered by insurers’ reluctance to cover its exorbitant cost. In the months since, payers are coming around, and more patients have access

Jersey City's new mayor is about to save the city $30 million while cutting #healthinsurance costs for about 5,000 city employees and retirees by roughly 8%. That's $30 million to spend on schools, transportation, and other priorities buff.ly/UVi5F7M #healthpolicy #healthecon #NewJersey #healthcare

Court rules pharmacies can pursue racketeering claims against major PBMs buff.ly/zfd6sGq #healthcare #healthpolicy

In December, Colorado was granted authority to monitor whether carriers are meeting state and federal TiC data rules, and issue penalties, fines, and other enforcement actions on carriers who are not compliant buff.ly/D1Jjxuj #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, AJMC spoke with David Muhlestein about his recent articles highlighting the completeness of Transparency in Coverage (TIC) files and ghost rates in TiC files buff.ly/J0W55Od #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

The CEOs of UnitedHealth, CVS, Elevance, Cigna and Blue Shield of California are testifying at two House committees today. Follow along with live updates from @mcauliff.bsky.social and @nonatc.bsky.social on @modernhealthcare.bsky.social (registration required but no paywall) bit.ly/4pO3apr

"In 2022, 32BJ redesigned its health plan to exclude NYP from its network. That decision, in combination with benefit design strategies that incentivized members to go to lower-cost providers and centers of excellence, has saved 32BJ $200 million over four years." buff.ly/1mY4gkf #healthcare

"Florida proposes cutting eligibility for an AIDS drug program, causing panic. The state would also eliminate coverage of two widely relied-on HIV medicines" buff.ly/qshn6Pw #healthcare #healthpolicy

A new law lets Alaska Division of Insurance license and supervise PBMs and TPAs, i.e. the "third-party administrators" that help employers' self-insured health plans and government health plans administer health benefits buff.ly/EyYIKAO #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon

You probably used quite a bit of January’s #LipidoftheMonth over the holidays, especially if you ate a lot of rich food. lipidmaps.org/updates/lipi...

House Republicans said they are summoning top #healthinsurance executives to testify later this month as part of a series of hearings about #healthcare affordability buff.ly/SumfQx7 #healthpolicy #healthecon

CivicaScript announces the availability of a low-cost insulin and a biosimilar for chronic inflammatory conditions in the US buff.ly/11hewBP #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon #pharma

WalletHub analyzed prices of 5 common #healthcare goods and services in 100 large US relative to median household income. Their 5 most expensive cities for the goods and services included in their analysis are Detroit, Cleveland, Newark, Toledo & Birmingham buff.ly/GGqNK10 #healthpolicy #healthecon

Great summary of state laws governing #healthcare that are taking effect in 2026 buff.ly/KiXHF4P #healthpolicy