This is fair enough, but there is an opportunity cost. In the 10 years post ACA, CMS was focused implementing ACOs and other parts of the value strategy (e.g. MIPS). Researchers focused on evaluation. MA grew with relatively little scrutiny from policy community at this time.

RE "Also agree there is no way ACOs are responsible for the slowdown in per-bene spending following the ACA – I do not view that as a serious take" That ACOs/VBP are responsible for slowdown is a common take: statnews.com/2023/12/21/hea…

Looks like a great paper on a highly relevant topic

I’m in today’s New York Times! Honored to have been selected as a PD Soros Fellowships Fellow out of the nearly 2,400 applicants. I’ve had the pleasure of having incredible help from so many people and there’s some specific people I would like to thank 1/4

Brown’s HSR PhD was my dream program because of the opportunity to get to work with David Meyers and Andrew Ryan. Working with them has only exceeded my expectations. They’re incredible mentors and this fellowship selection wouldn’t have happened without their support 3/4

We also found limited evidence that benchmark changes (induced by quartile payment system) affected plan offerings or enrollment: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Excited to share that I was awarded a top undergraduate poster at Brown’s Public Health Research Day 2024! Thank you to Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH and Brown University School of Public Health for the honor. Special thank you to David Meyers and Amal Trivedi for their, continued support, guidance, and mentorship!

New in Health Affairs with Erin Fuse Brown. We discuss lessons from Oregon’s novel attempt to regulate private equity and corporate ownership of medical practices—a rapidly growing trend in health care. 1/x healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Now in Health Affairs led by Hannah James we find that the use of health risk assessments increase spending in Medicare Advantage by over $12B a year in additional spending due to increased measured coding 1/ doi.org/10.1377/hlthaf… 1@BrownHSPP Brown University Health Affairs

Physician group practices accrued large bonuses under Medicare’s bundled payment model. Sukruth Shashikumar of Brigham and Women's Medicine Residents, Andrew Ryan of Brown University School of Public Health + coauthors find BPCI-A participants accrued $421 million in incentives, 2018-20. Read the full article: bit.ly/3yl2qTV

Join our team! We're looking for someone to work on our Medicare and payment reform team. This is a great opportunity for someone earlier on in their career to learn more about these health policy issues and work with an amazing set of colleagues! Apply 👇arnoldventures.org/careers/health…

This year, 2 of the 4 big national award winners at Academy Health have deep roots Brown University School of Public Health Dr. Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters '21 gets the Alice Hersh Award And super star Professor @ysingh_hopkins gets the dissertation of the year award for her amazing work on private equity in healthcare

Addressing frustration over high hospital prices, Professor Christopher Whaley urged transparency in his testimony yesterday before a US Senate committee as "critical to improve the efficiency and regulatory oversight of health care." Senate Aging Committee Senate Aging Committee brown.edu/news/2024-07-1…

.Rachel Sachs and I wrote a Perspective out today in NEJM on the implications of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision overturning of Chevron deference for health agencies and health policy. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In their new Forefront article, Andrew Ryan, Jared Perkins + David Meyers of Brown University School of Public Health argue that CMSGov is continuing its trajectory to shift the health system towards increased levels of care management and accountability and away from FFS models. bit.ly/3WIms2W

Check out this paper led by Meehir Dixit, former Brown University student & current CAHPR superstar RA!

Lots of good ideas in this article. I very much agree with the strategy of funding enhancements to Traditional Medicare benefits through the reduction of subsidies in Medicare Advantage.

In their new Forefront article, Erin Fuse Brown, Megha Reddy, and Christopher Whaley of Brown University School of Public Health discuss how the broader conversation and heightened scrutiny surrounding noncompetes are likely to spur impactful legislation at state and federal levels. bit.ly/3Z63FSg