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A disappointing outcome, for sure. In particular, it looks like even the tiny site-neutral payment fix from the House package is getting left out. Similarly, it doesn't look like we're going to get better Medicare Advantage data or information on PE & payer ownership.

📢 Exciting news! 🎉 Just published a paper in Health Affairs with Zach Brown, Sarah Miller, Edward Norton, & Andrew Ryan. 🏥 Our study, funded by Arnold Ventures, examines the impact of the Oregon state employee plan’s hospital payment cap on hospital prices.

Coauthored with Christopher Whaley & Jared Perkins Brown University School of Public Health, our article Health Affairs Forefront: healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

New American Economic Liberties Project white paper, featured to today’s WaPo UnitedHealth story. I address health care’s new frontier of consolidation: insurance companies gobbling up medical practices, pharmacies, & much more—fueled by tidal shifts in financing and regulatory policy. Wonky 🧵👇

New in JAMA Psychiatry with Emmanuel Greenberg, Susan Busch Marissa King jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… We meticulously identified 1800+ private equity-owned outpatient mental health and substance use treatment clinics from 2012-2023.

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

My viewpoint with Maryland Health Law professor Natalie Ram and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Elizabeth Letourneau on Certificates of Confidentiality and Mandatory Report is out today in JAMA Pediatrics jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Our new paper in NEJM examines the widespread acquisitions of medical practices by UnitedHealth, Humana, Cigna, and other insurers—what’s driving this trend and what are its implications for patients and clinicians? 1/x

Full paper here: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

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 @SenateAgingGOP brown.edu/news/2024-07-1…

In a new interview, Erin Fuse Brown discusses a vertical-consolidation trend that has given insurance companies increased control over the care-delivery system. Listen to the full interview: nej.md/4cVkliN

The Supreme Court’s decision in 𝘓𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘷. 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 could open the door to more, and broader, challenges to actions taken by health agencies. Full Perspective by Rachel Sachs & Erin Fuse Brown: nej.md/46bGmrm

.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…

and here's the link for full piece; dm me for pdf jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

In a new interview, Erin Fuse Brown discusses the potential implications of recent Supreme Court decisions for health law and policy. Listen to the full interview: nej.md/4dQBjQh

In their new Forefront article, Erin Fuse Brown Yashaswini Singh, PhD Christopher Whaley + Jared Perkins from Brown University discuss how policy makers can do more to address the rise in private-equity investment in health care markets, which have increased prices + more. bit.ly/3XAJ6fz

Amid renewed antitrust law focus by the FTC, Health Services, Policy & Practice Department Professors Erin Fuse Brown, Yashaswini Singh, PhD & Christopher Whaley and Jared Perkins on the rise of health care consolidation, what it means for consumers & what can be done about it, in the latest Health Affairs. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…