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VP for Health Care, @Arnold_Ventures. Thoughts my own.
Alexandria, VA
Joined May 2021
Paying the same price for routine services whether they’re delivered in a physician office or a hospital outpatient facility is a commonsense reform with strong bipartisan support. Tune in now to hear more at today’s @Paragon_Inst event.
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RT @a_spratt: New @BudgetHawks brief: "Over the next decade (2025-2034), we estimate that the federal revenue loss from the nonprofit hospi….
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More than half of the nation’s hospitals are designated as “charitable” nonprofit institutions by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), exempting them from most federal, state, and local taxes and ma
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Join our team! We're looking for someone to work on our Medicare and payment reform team. This is a great opportunity for someone earlier on in their career to learn more about these health policy issues and work with an amazing set of colleagues! Apply 👇
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Check it out this Thursday!.
Should be a good House Budget Committee hearing this Thursday on the budgetary effects of health care consolidation, feat. @ChapinWhite & @ben_ippolito .
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RT @larry_levitt: Health reform efforts in the past have been largely framed around expanding insurance coverage. Whenever the next health….
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Voters are more concerned about lowering their own health costs than covering everyone.
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This year's @RANDCorporation data reiterates that the prices hospitals charge people with private insurance far exceed what Medicare pays (2.5x Medicare rates on average). An important driver of high prices? The market power of large, consolidated hospitals and health systems.
New report: Prices paid to hospitals during 2022 by employers and private insurers for inpatient and outpatient services averaged 254% of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states.
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RT @JohnArnoldFndtn: Hospital systems have justified horizontal mergers for years claiming that larger scale will lower costs and raise qua….
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"Even though we served under presidents for different parties, we both recommended that Congress adopt policies advancing site-neutral payments to save patients and taxpayers money." . - former HHS Secretaries Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius.
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Imagine that your favorite independent coffee shop is bought by a global chain. Your $2 cup of joe jumps to $4 overnight. That's essentially what's happening in health care.
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RT @GtownCHIR: @GtownCHIR is hosting a new webinar series, "Understanding Hospital Financing." Join us for the first webinar on Friday, 4/1….
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RT @Arnold_Ventures: New announcement from @CMSinnovates: primary care providers in select ACOs can soon receive population-based payments.….
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RT @larry_levitt: This somewhat complicated chart from the body that advises Congress on Medicare (@medicarepayment) is quite stunning when….
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Happy MedPAC report day! . @medicarepayment's latest report reiterates the urgent need for Medicare Advantage reforms. Coding alone will lead to excess payments of $50B this year. And beneficiaries will pay $13B more in premiums due to overpayments to MA plans.
It has arrived! Today, MedPAC released its March 2024 Report to the Congress. Find the report on our website here:
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Couldn't agree more with @PostOpinions. Congress should act to get #siteneutral payment reform done this year. Medicare beneficiaries should not pay 2-3x more for routine services delivered in a hospital outpatient facility rather than a doctor's office.
"Site-neutral" payments for chemotherapy could save Medicare billions, the Editorial Board writes.
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The MA quality program "was designed to incentivize MA plans to improve quality and to help beneficiaries select high-quality plans. The program has failed to achieve either of those goals. ". More on MA's quality bonus program and potential reforms 👇.
New from Bob Berenson and @LauraSkopec on the failings of the Medicare Advantage quality bonus program and pay-for-performance more generally. @UrbanInstitute
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RT @Brown_SPH: CAHPR traveled to DC last week for The Future of Medicare: The Rise of Medicare Advantage & What Comes Next! "It was great t….
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RT @johanna_butler: New from @Arnold_Ventures: Reflections on #hcvalueweek & @Acct4Health's summit earlier this year. Learn how a shift aw….
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Learn more on how a shift away from fee-for-service could improve efficiency and provide personalized, high-quality care.
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States lead the way on addressing rising hospital prices. OR capped hospital prices for the state employee plan and here's what happened:.📉 outpatient facility prices decreased.💰 OR saved $107M in the 1st 2 yrs.✅ no hospitals left the network or closed.
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A new @BudgetHawks brief calls for reforms to Medicare Advantage’s quality bonus program. MedPAC has called the QBP seriously flawed. It costs $15B a year, does not improve or reflect quality well, and does not provide meaningful information to beneficiaries choosing a plan.
➡️ Read more about Medicare Advantage in our new issue brief we published this week:
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RT @Arnold_Ventures: While patients are protected from costly surprise medical bills, new data shows repeated efforts to weaken the #NoSurp….
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RT @CMAorg: 📣@CMAorg is grateful to have joined @Brown_SPH's discussion, The Future of Medicare: The Rise of Medicare Advantage & What Come….
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