In late August 2025, CMS released Performance Year (PY) 2024 data for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). This marked ...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 mandates price negotiations for certain drugs under Medicare, shortening the exclusivity period historically used to recoup research and development ...

The 340B rebate pilot model set to begin in January 2026 starkly presents the key tradeoff between program integrity and ...

The real gold standard for science, and academic freedom, requires upholding scientific work that investigates who and what ...

Audrey Ford, MS, is a Policy Research Associate on the Health Care Transformation team at Duke-Margolis and supports projects on the Medicare accountable care portfol ...

Merna Shohdy is a medical student at the City University of New York School of Medicine and an affiliated researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The No UPCODE Act—with some refinements—is a good start insofar it establishes some key pieces of reform, but a broader ...

A 2026 CMS proposed rule contains multiple provisions that will improve the transparency of hospital prices and support the ...

With collaboration and evidence-based approaches, we can build a patient-centric health care system that works better for ...

Abandoning a universal recommendation, in place since 2021, in favor of shared clinical decision making for everyone. This ...

Despite the promise of compassionate release as a humanitarian and cost-saving action, a staggeringly low number of people ...

Highly touted efforts to cut health care spending, such as the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ignore the real ...