ARC annually develops an auxiliary data set for the Department of Labor that appends to the March Current Population Survey (CPS). While the March CPS is the data source most often used for […]
The WISH Act is a bipartisan bill that would create a social insurance program to provide long-term care (LTC) benefits to help seniors fund LTC needs.
Oliver Wyman, GCG Consulting, and […]
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 […]