By Elaine Chen
Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research
Health Law and Policy News
Oregon Grapevine: Medicine and the Law
by Barbara Dellenback
Health Care Inc.
by Bob Herman
Lawmakers Target the Power of Health Insurance Giants
by Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins
Opponents urge Wake commissioners to block WakeMed merger with Atrium Health
By Richard Stradling
Advocacy Groups Speak Out Against WakeMed’s Proposed Merger with Atrium
by Regan Butler
Opponents warn WakeMed-Atrium merger could raise costs, reduce local control
by Flynn Snyder
by Alex Olgin
Hospital price caps gain momentum across states
by Alan Condon
Medicare Advantage Company Pays $342M to Government in Midst of Billing Probe
By Fred Schulte
Democrats To Propose Bill Capping Out-of-Pocket Medicare Costs for Enrollees
By Julie Appleby
Brown scholar offers Congress actionable solutions for Medicare Advantage overpayment issues
By Corrie Pikul
Tennessee Pharmacy Law Aims to Avoid Arkansas’ Fate
by Lauren Clason
Indiana Takes On Powerful Hospitals by Capping Prices They Charge Employers
By Phil Galewitz and Samantha Liss
Healthcare price transparency is necessary to improve affordability, Brown scholar tells Congress
By Corrie Pikul
What the new No Surprises Act rule doesn’t fix
By Bridget Early
By Katie Palmer
Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
by Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz
Private equity acquisition can expand primary care use by expanding workforce, study finds
Brown University researchers used Medicare claims to track results of primary care practices after private equity firms acquired them, revealing surprising findings.
Frustration in Surprise Billing Cases Ups Pressure for Overhaul
by Lauren Clason
Study finds payments to Medicare Advantage brokers potentially reached $10 billion annually
The analysis by Brown University researchers offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the Medicare Advantage insurance broker market, drawing on data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
New State Laws to Bar Private Equity From Medicine Start to Show Their Teeth
by Chris Cumming
Oregon’s curb on corporate medicine could face more changes
By Nick Budnick
Oregon Emergency Physicians Claim Win Against For-Profit Replacements
by Shannon Firth
Oregon hospitals won’t outsource to national physician chain after all
By Tara Bannow
What to watch as hospital CEOs face the Hill
By Megan R. Wilson
DOJ increasingly investigating health systems, claiming anticompetitive contracts
By Maia Anderson
HaloMD’s legal win highlights the difficulty of challenging arbitration decisions
By Tara Bannow
More insurance claims denials are being overturned upon appeal, study finds
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn
More insurer denials are being overturned
Part of the Axios Vitals Newsletter Maya Goldman, Tina Reed, and Peter Sullivan
Huge Rates of Insurance Denials Get Overturned by Independent Review Experts
by Cheryl Clark
As Delaware debates primary care reform, a similar Oregon law offers insight
by Nick Stonesifer
The Uncertain Impact Of Medicare Advantage Scrutiny
By Yeji Jesse Lee
Jada Owens: Pivot to policy
After witnessing stark racial disparities in Alzheimer’s care, Jada Owens pivoted from medicine to policy. The Brown Health Equity Scholar is headed to D.C. for a one-year Winston Fellowship to help shape the future of U.S. health care.
Will the Allina-Sutter Health deal drive up the cost of health care in Minnesota?
By Christopher Snowbeck
by AHIP
Medicaid autism therapy boom triggers crackdown
By Maya Goldman
Delaware lawmakers try again to cap the state’s excessive hospital costs
By Sarah Mueller
Two Very Different States Take Aim at Soaring Hospital Price
But are price controls the answer?
PeaceHealth emergency room deal will test new Oregon law
by Nick Budnick and Joanne Zuhl
A new perk for state workers: free surgery
by Michelle Crouch and Charlotte Ledger
Broward children lack hospital choices. Parents want state to force Florida Blue to negotiate
By Cindy Krischer Goodman
Patients feel strain of Florida Blue fallout with Broward hospitals: ‘Just lunacy’
By Michelle Marchante and Amanda Rosa
RI's health care problems: 3 takeaways from Brown’s health care summit
By Jonny Williams
Leaders gather for an authentic, lively conversation about health care policy in Rhode Island
By Corrie Pikul
Medicare Proposal Seeks to Limit Insurer Tactic, Extra Payments
By Ganny Belloni
Trump administration signals there’s widespread desire to curb Medicare Advantage
By Bob Herman
Should Rhode Island save its failing hospitals?
By Andrew Ryan and Emily Shearer
First-in-the-nation Oregon law capping state employee hospital payments is working, study says
by Shaanth Nanguneri
Oregon’s first-in-nation hospital price cap hasn’t hurt care, finances so far, study finds
By Kristine de Leon