New urbaninstitute.bsky.social study shows how eliminating the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion could affect states. Either they’d have to come up with $44.3B in 2026 to maintain coverage or eliminate the expansion and cut 15.9M Medicaid or CHIP enrollees. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

Research has shown many overpaid services in the Medicare physician fee schedule are due to AMA over-estimates of how long it takes physicians to provide the service. Check out @urbaninstitute.bsky.social evidence that’s been around for a decade. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

Special needs plans, which largely enroll beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, accounted for nearly a third of the growth in Medicare Advantage over the 2017–23 period. Will the MA plans be able to serve this high-need population? Research will tell.

A new data tool from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social tracks the effects of ending the enhanced Marketplace tax credits state by state for age, income and race/ethnicity subgroups. www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

Happy to join Bluesky. For my first post, I’d like to share an Urban Institute brief on some of the effects of the enhanced Marketplace tax credits. Spoiler alert: most help goes to people who are older and live in high-premium states. www.urban.org/research/pub...