‘Pill Mill’ Laws Worked, Cutting Opioid Overprescribing and Deaths
Measures in 11 States Also Reduced Doctor Shopping Without Pushing Patients Into Illicit Drug Use, a New RAND–Penn Study Finds
Research & Policy Updates
Risk-Based Contracts Are Unlikely to Cut Waste in Medicare Advantage
Risk-Based Payments May Fail to Lower Low-Value Care, a New Study Shows
Trump Order to Criminalize Homelessness Sparks Alarm
New Policy Reduces Housing First While Favoring Enforcement and Involuntary Treatment. That Could Worsen Homelessness, LDI Experts Warn
In Philly Emergency Departments, Text Messages Helped Patients Seek Public Benefits More Often
Follow-Up Texts, Not Paper Flyers, Drove Real Action on Unclaimed Benefits Like Heating, Child Care, Tax Rebates, and Children’s Health
Penn Study Faults Federal Maternal Morbidity Statistics
Comparison to Commercial All-Payer Database Documents Wide Discrepancies
Hospital-at-Home: How to Reenergize This Key Program
These 10 Points Lay Out the Biggest Barriers – From Costs to Complex Rules – and the Reforms Needed to Put More Hospital Care in Homes Nationwide
Outpatient Surgeries Still Grew After COVID, Reshaping Care
A New Study Confirms the Outpatient Surge and Suggests That Many Patients Will Be Left Behind
LDI Fellows’ AI Program Could Save Medicare Billions in Overpayments
Replacing Flawed Current Payment Methods With the Machine Learning Model “Franklin,” Might Thwart Upcoding and Favorable Enrollee Selection by Medicare Advantage Firms
U.S. Hospital Nurse Job Conditions Worsen After COVID, and Turnover Continues
Chart of the Day: National Study Shows Worse Nurse Job Satisfaction and Perceived Lower Care Quality as Staffing Shortages Persist Post-Pandemic
A Simple, Gamified Program Boosted Walking in Parkinson’s Patients
Chart of the Day: Remote Intervention with Gaming Elements Shows Promise, LDI Expert Finds
U.S. AI Boom Could Cause Health Care Costs to Soar Without Changes to Payment Policy
Federal Officials Factor in Health Gains to Control Spending, LDI Fellow Says
Many Maternal Deaths Occur After Birth, With Mental Health a Key Factor
LDI Experts Are Making Postpartum Care Safer With Telehealth, Remote Monitoring, Doulas, and Long-Acting Addiction Care