Next up at @SHESG2025, Katherine Wen presents work on employment and vaccine mandates. Katherine and her colleagues study the impact of vaccinations mandates surrounding COVID. You may remember that there was significant push-back from workers about the mandates at the time.

Excited this paper is out. Medicare Advantage is driving longer hospital lengths of stay, especially for patients discharged to SNFs. This has important implications for patients' access to post-acute care and hospital patient flows as MA becomes dominant type of Medicare coverage

Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries | NEJM A total of 14 million Medicare beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which reduces cost sharing in Medicare Part D. Losing the LIS may impede medication access and affect mortality. U...

Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it.

Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)

Placing a "soft" spending limit on physical therapy reduces unnecessary care, but also introduces inequities based on how well providers can navigate paperwork requirements, from Ashvin Gandhi and Maggie Shi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33722

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A key problem is there's a Hotel California aspect to MA: once you're in, it's hard to leave.

In nearly every state, after your initial eligibility period @65, you can't revert to traditional Medicare without facing medical underwriting for Medigap plan that cover your out-of-pocket obligations.

As the baby boom generation enters its prime years for long-term care needs, its difficult to come up with a more challenging backdrop than an immigration system about to be cut off at its knees (think: nursing home aides) and states having to fill in funding gaps from Medicaid spending shortfalls.