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Paragon’s Response to the House Budget Committees’ Request For Information

October 12, 2023 by Brian Blase and Joe Albanese

Paragons’s President Brian Blase and Senior Policy Analyst Joe Albanese respond to the…

Policy Brief

POLICY BRIEF: Reducing Overpayments in Medicare through Site-Neutral Reforms

June 7, 2023 by Joe Albanese

Medicare currently pays providers differently for an identical service to an identical patient…

A magnifying glass reveals the word "Medicaid" on a web page

Commentary

Medicaid Eligibility Matters

May 22, 2023 by Gary Alexander and Elizabeth Stelle

Should a health-care program for low-income seniors, the disabled, kids, and pregnant mothers…

Painting of a fork in the road

Featured Papers

Pandemic Unwinding: How States Should Clean Up Their Medicaid Rolls

April 28, 2023 by Gary Alexander&#160 Brian Blase and Nic Horton

A brochure for Medicare

Commentary

Basic fixes to start saving Medicare

March 17, 2023 by Joe Albanese

President Joe Biden and congressional Republicans’ State of the Union outburst last month signaled Medicare…

The cover for the paper called "Turning the Tide on Red Ink." On the left side of the image, an older woman looks sad as the government accumulates more debt. On the right side of the image, a grandmother and her granddaughter look hopeful as the debt is in decline. The middle of the image depicts the Medicaid.gov website.

Featured Papers

Turning the Tide on Red Ink: Commonsense Policies to Make Federal Health Programs More Sustainable

March 8, 2023 by Brian Blase and Joe Albanese

Commentary

How House Republicans Can Tame the Medicaid Monster

January 12, 2023 by Gary Alexander

As Republicans take over the House of Representatives this month, focusing on fixing Medicaid,…

Quote

Montana Moves to Stop Medicaid for Ineligible Enrollees

January 4, 2023 by Brian Blase&#160 Joe Albanese&#160 Doug Badger and Bonner R Cohen

On January 4, 2023, Paragon’s Brian Blase, PhD, and Public Advisor Doug Badger…

Newsletter

An Agenda For The 118th Congress + Improper Payment Analysis

December 5, 2022 by Brian Blase

A few weeks ago, Paragon released a policy brief by Drew Keyes and Joe Albanese,…

Policy Brief

America’s Largest Health Care Programs Are Full of Improper Payments

December 4, 2022 by Brian Blase and Joe Albanese

Waste, fraud, and abuse in federal health care programs are perennial problems, and…