A study supported by ARC finds that beneficiaries who disenroll from Medicare Advantage have substantially higher costs than those who remain enrolled, and about 30% higher than what insurers would have been paid […]
Enrollment data published by CMS indicates that the Medicare Advantage (MA) market remains stable, with continued growth of 1.1 million new enrollees in 2026 and an increase in MA penetration to 51.6% driven […]
Medicare and other payers continue to pay several times more for identical services performed in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than physician offices.
To highlight the degree to which these site-of-service payment differences are associated […]
A new study, published in Health Affairs and authored by Tim Bulat (ARC) and Sean McClellan and Matt Trombley (Abt Global), found 11 percentage point lower hospital utilization trends under […]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes a requirement that the Department of Labor (DOL) produce an annual report to Congress on self-insured employee health benefit plans utilizing data from the Form 5500 Annual […]
ARC’s analysis of the 2026 Medicare Advantage landscape finds that the market remains stable and well funded. Plan availability and benefit generosity continue to be near all-time highs, even as […]