What is medical inflation and how it affects your health insurance premiums?
The cost-of-living crisis has made us all more aware of the impact inflation has on our finances, but how much...
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Biases to consider when conducting contingent valuation studies
Contingent valuation is a survey-based economic method used to estimate the value of goods or...
Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he...
IBX: The Cover Story – Paving the Lane to Better Mental Health
(00:01): Healthcare is ever-changing and constantly evolving, but it’s also personal to every employer who offers health benefits to their...
The Politics Holding Back Medicaid Expansion in Some Southern States
For Roderick Givens, a radiation oncologist, the expansion of Medicaid isn’t just a policy issue. He practices medicine in a...
Should we extrapolate survival using ‘cure’ models?
Clinical trials are short, but the benefits of many drugs lasts months or even years beyond the duration of these...
Cracking the Code: Health Insurance Jargon Made Easy
Health insurance jargon can be seriously confusing. It’s like they’re speaking a whole other language, right? If you’re trying to...
New Georgetown CHIR Report Examines State Reforms of Prior Authorization
Health insurers’ use of prior authorization – a medical management tool requiring providers to seek the insurer’s approval before their patient...
Are drug prices too high or too low?
This is a common question I receive, often with the implicit assumption that prices in...
Is ICHRA Considered Income? How ICHRA Gets Reported
Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) are changing the landscape of employer-provided health benefits. These arrangements allow employers to reimburse...
