Public Health01/05/2026Banning Smartphones in Schools: Review of the Literature Shows Positive ImpactTim Pressley, Ph. D. and David T. Marshall, Ph. D.
Public Health12/22/2025Platinum-Standard Science: FDA’s New Streamlined Framework for Biosimilars and InterchangeabilityChris Medrano
Medicaid, State Health Reform12/15/2025The Local Loop: How States Turn Medicaid into a Government Provider Payday SchemeChris Medrano, Brian Blase and Kip Piper
Private Health12/03/2025GAO Probe Finds ACA at High Risk for Fraud: 96% of Fake Applications ApprovedBrian Blase
Private Health11/06/2025Problems with ACA Subsidies Compounded by COVID Credits: Unfair to Americans with Employer-Based Insurance, Punish Work, and Incentivize Employers to Drop CoverageBrian Blase and John R. Graham
Medicare10/22/2025How to Reform the CMS Innovation Center with a Choice and Competition ApproachJackson Hammond
Private Health10/01/2025Ghostbusting ACA Fraud: Millions Who Don’t Use Their Health Insurance Expose Abuse in the ProgramNiklas Kleinworth, Liam Sigaud and John R. Graham
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health09/17/2025Immigration and Health Care in the One Big Beautiful Bill: How the New Law Reforms Eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA SubsidiesBrian Blase and Ryan Long
Private Health09/04/2025Biden’s COVID Credits Are an ObamaCare Expansion That Congress Should Allow To ExpireBrian Blase and Trevor Carlsen
Private Health08/27/2025Taxpayers Will Finance Vast Majority of ACA Plan Premiums For Most Enrollees After Biden’s COVID Credits ExpireBrian Blase, Liam Sigaud and John R. Graham
Medicare07/25/2025New Medicare Payment Rules (OPPS and PFS) Show Trump Administration’s Focus on Site Neutral Payments and Reducing Medicare’s Market DistortionsJackson Hammond
AI, Public Health07/16/2025Could the VA Be the Key to Lowering the Cost of American Health Care?Kev Coleman
Medicaid07/15/2025Will Congress’ Reforms to Medicaid Financing Hurt Rural Health Care? No: Debunking the Myth that Provider Taxes Support Rural HospitalsLiam Sigaud and Niklas Kleinworth
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health07/10/2025What Made It Into Law: Health Provisions of the One Big Beautiful BillChris Medrano, Brian Blase and Ryan Long
Private Health07/02/2025Policy Changes Needed to Reduce Massive Improper Affordable Care Act Subsidy ExpendituresBrian Blase and Jackson Hammond
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health, Public Health05/28/2025Health Care Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill: Reducing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse While Empowering American PatientsBrian Blase, Ryan Long, Gabrielle Kalisz and Niklas Kleinworth
Private Health05/13/2025Major Health Care Reforms in the Ways & Means Reconciliation BillBrian Blase and Jackson Hammond
Medicaid05/12/2025Medicaid Money Laundering Apparatus is Driving Medicaid Rates Way Above MedicareBrian Blase
Medicaid05/12/2025Ineligible Enrollment in the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion: Evidence, Costs, and RemediesLiam Sigaud
Medicaid04/09/2025Medi-Cal-amity: California’s Reckless Expansion of Medicaid Long-Term Care to the AffluentStephen Moses
Private Health04/01/2025Trump Administration’s Affordable Care Act Program Integrity and Affordability RuleBrian Blase and Chris Medrano
Medicaid03/12/2025California’s Insurance-Tax Shuffle: How Federal Money Ends Up Paying for Medicaid for Illegal ImmigrantsPaul Winfree and Brian Blase
Medicaid03/03/2025Medicaid’s True Improper Payments Double Those Reported by CMSBrian Blase and Rachel Greszler
Medicare01/15/2025Two Paths for Medicare’s Future: Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care OrganizationsJoe Albanese
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health, Public Health06/26/2024A Dozen Things to Know from CBO’s New NumbersBrian Blase, Drew Gonshorowski, Joe Albanese, Jackson Hammond, Emma Gallutia and Chris Medrano
Medicare01/17/2024Digging into MedPAC’s Medicare Advantage Estimates: The Impact of Coding Intensity and Favorable SelectionJoe Albanese
Medicare10/27/2023Paragon’s Brian Blase and Joe Albanese Submit Letter to MedPAC on Financial Incentives for Alternative Payment ModelsJoe Albanese and Brian Blase
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Health, Public Health09/27/2023Health Care in the Next Term and Congress: One-Page Briefings for a 2025 AgendaBrian Blase, Dr. Joel Zinberg, Gary Alexander, Demetrios L. Kouzoukas, Theo Merkel, Joe Albanese and Drew Keyes
Medicare09/08/2023Paragon Submits Public Comment to CMS Urging Them to Reconsider Proposed Remedy to 340B Drug Payment PolicyTheo Merkel and Brian Blase
Private Health09/07/2023Paragon Leads Comment Letter Opposing Biden Admin’s Misguided Proposed Rule Limiting Short-term Health PlansBrian Blase, Tomas J. Philipson, Drew Keyes, Drew Gonshorowski, Paul Winfree, Grace-Marie Turner, Casey Mulligan and Dr. Joel Zinberg
Medicare09/06/2023The Arrival of Medicare Drug Price Controls: No Cause for CelebrationDr. Joel Zinberg