Steve Zuckerman

New urbaninstitute.bsky.social study shows how eliminating the 90 percent FMAP for the Medicaid expansion could affect states. Either they’d have to come up with $44.3B in 2026 to maintain coverage or eliminate the expansion and cut 15.9M Medicaid or CHIP enrollees. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

Research has shown many overpaid services in the Medicare physician fee schedule are due to AMA over-estimates of how long it takes physicians to provide the service. Check out @urbaninstitute.bsky.social evidence that’s been around for a decade. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...

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Special needs plans, which largely enroll beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, accounted for nearly a third of the growth in Medicare Advantage over the 2017–23 period. Will the MA plans be able to serve this high-need population? Research will tell.

Who Would Lose Coverage If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire? The expiration of the pandemic-era enhanced premium tax credits risks leaving 4 million people without health insurance.

A new data tool from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social tracks the effects of ending the enhanced Marketplace tax credits state by state for age, income and race/ethnicity subgroups. www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

Enhanced PTCs Help Older Adults and Those in High-Premium States Afford Coverage In this summary, we examine the expected distribution of enhanced PTCs among nonelderly people with incomes over 400 percent of FPL by age, income, and state. We use projected 2025 subsidized Marketpl...

Happy to join Bluesky. For my first post, I’d like to share an Urban Institute brief on some of the effects of the enhanced Marketplace tax credits. Spoiler alert: most help goes to people who are older and live in high-premium states. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Thanks for creating this group. I’d like to join. @zuckermans.bsky.social