Matt Fiedler

My new piece @Health_Affairs Forefront finds that if the House bill becomes law and enhanced premium tax credits expire on schedule, the US will see an unprecedented increase in the uninsured rate, wiping out about ~3/4 of the post-2013 decline.

The role of brokers in Medicare Advantage remains underexplored in my view, so I was intrigued to see this new paper from @djmeyers2 and @jeffreydmarr examining recent insurer changes in commission payment and the effects on enrollment choices.

New paper w/ Sam Peterson uses hospital price transparency data to take an up-to-date look at how the prices that MA plans pay for hospital care compare to TM’s prices. Bottom line: MA plans continue to pay prices close to TM’s, at least on average. 🧵

Disappointed that the Trump administration’s new Transparency in Coverage (TiC) final rule adopts JSON as the standard file format. This step ensures that work with the TiC files will continue to face major (unnecessary!) barriers to entry.

Forcing MedPAC to ignore favorable selection in some analyses would simply yield misleading estimates. Hard to see any point other than muddying the waters of the MA payment debate.