Steve Zuckerman
@zuckermans.bsky.social
Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute Health Policy Center. A health economist who studies the ACA, Medicare, Medicaid and physician payment.
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...
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February 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
November 22, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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...
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.
As the incoming administration thinks about putting an even bigger thumb on the scale for Medicare Advantage, we should understand why these private plans don't work in all markets. @zuckermans.bsky.social @bowengarrett.bsky.social @lauraskopec.bsky.social www.urban.org/research/pub...
Patterns and Drivers of Medicare Advantage Enrollment Growth, 2017–2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) has grown rapidly in the past decade, from about a third of Medicare enrollment in 2015 to over half in 2024. The growth of MA has important implications for the financial sust...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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.
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...
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.
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November 16, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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...
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...
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...
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November 14, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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...