Barak D. Richman
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Medicare Advantage Plan Bid Risk Underestimates and Corresponding Insurer Revenues
1 Introduction Each year, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans submit bids to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that include a projected risk score for their enrollees. Because this projection helps set both plan revenue and the rebate that funds enrollee benefits, a systematic bias in it would shift dollars between the government, plans, and beneficiaries. We examine whether these projections are unbiased.
Financing Telehealth — Moving Beyond Payment Parity | NEJM
Are you a member of an institution such as a university or hospital?Learn more about Institutional Access Notes This article was published on January 10, 2026, at NEJM.org. Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available at NEJM.org. Supplementary Material Disclosure Forms (nejmp2512881_disclosures.pdf)
The Curious Case of Private Equity in Health Care's Market Failures
Over the last year, the United States government has demonstrated increased concern about private equity’s involvement in health care. Barak Richman and Richard Scheffler discuss why the government’s actions have not yet matched the energy of its words and how academics and policymakers must continue to investigate private equity’s influences as they devise policy to address its harms.
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