It may not always feel that way, but only 20 cents of your dollar goes to insurers.

A $37 billion annual public subsidy should come with real accountability

The findings of the working paper offer a behind-the-scenes look at what can happen as major health insurers expand into owning and operating physician practices.

(Forthcoming Article) - Principal-agent problems often extend beyond what can be directly addressed through conventional incentive arrangements. We examine a context where physicians are likely under-...

Should a colonoscopy cost nearly eight times more at one hospital than another? Why hospital pricing is less about quality and more about market power.

This is a joint post by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. This is part of our continuing coverage of the new Oregon Medicaid study paper. Prior posts are here: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3. More are forthcomi...

Private equity firms, insurance companies, and other corporate entities are using MSOs to bypass state prohibitions on the corporate practice of medicine, allowing large corporations to functionally o...

As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one question has persisted: How many lives have COVID vaccines helped save?

It’s been four years since the COVID-19 pandemic first swept the globe, shutting down schools and businesses and killing more than 1.1 million people in the U.S. alone. In response to the crisis, gove...

Gloria Sachdev, a pharmacist by training, has spent years taking on the health care establishment in Indiana, working to pull down high hospital prices and make information public to patients. Now, in...

Diagnosis-based payment systems can create incentives to upcode patients to a higher level of severity to increase payment. In some instances, upcoding can be a form of fraud if providers code patient...