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Health Care Payment and Financing

Medicare Payment Model Shortchanges Rural Patients, Study Finds

CMS’s Main Risk Adjustment Method Underestimates Rural Patients’ Health Risks, LDI Fellows Show, Potentially Reducing Access to Care in the Heartland

By:
  • Joanna Kim, MPH
November 24, 2025
wooden blocks with health care symbols stacked in a pyramid

Blog Post

Health Care Payment and Financing

Participation in Medicare Advantage Risk-Based Provider Payments Shows Little Impact on Care Delivery

Moving from Fee-for-Service to Risk-Based Contracts Hasn't Dramatically Changed Patient Care, Raising Questions About How to Make These Models More Effective

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
November 10, 2025

In The Media Becker's Hospital Review

Safety-Net Hospital Funding Hinges on Widely Varying Definitions: 7 Things to Know

Work Cited

Featured Fellows:
  • Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
  • Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
September 17, 2025

Brief

Health Care Access & Coverage

Fragmented Geographic Distribution of Providers Suggests Limited Access to Basic Health Care for Dual Medicaid-Medicare Beneficiaries 

Research Brief: Less Than 1% of Clinical Practices Provide 80% of Outpatient Services for Dually Eligible Individuals

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
August 27, 2025
A stethoscope on top of money

Blog Post

Health Care Payment and Financing

Surprising Result: Bundled Payments Saved Money for Outpatient Surgeries

Hospitals and Physician Groups Can Also Benefit From Those Payments, as Medicare Launches a New Model for Episodic Care

By:
  • Aidan P. Crowley
  • Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
  • Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP
August 19, 2025
Empty hospital corridor

Brief

Funding for Safety Net Hospitals Uses Widely Varying Definitions 

Research Brief: Understanding Definition Tradeoffs Would Help Funders Accurately Target Support to Hospitals Serving Low-Income Patients

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
August 14, 2025
Clinician examining a person's knee.

Blog Post

Health Equity

Can Mandatory Value-Based Payment Models Improve Health Equity?

LDI Fellows Find the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model Narrowed Disparities in Complications for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries

By:
  • Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP
January 24, 2025

News

Top Dozen 2024 LDI News Stories

Focusing in on Health Care Policy’s Most Pressing Issues

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 6, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Medicare Advantage: LDI Fellows’ Findings On The Largest Part of Medicare

A Digest of LDI Research on Equity, Costs, and Care in Medicare Advantage Over The Last Two Years

By:
  • Karl Stark
December 13, 2024

Blog Post

Population Health

A National Randomized Trial Seeks to Increase Kidney Transplants. Is it Working?

LDI Fellows Explain Why the Transplant Waitlist Has Not Increased—And What to Do About It

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
December 2, 2024

In Their Own Words

Health Equity

Advancing Equity In Kidney Transplantation Through The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

LDI Fellows Discuss Equity in Health Affairs Forefront

By:
  • Yuvaram Reddy, MBBS, MPH
  • Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD
  • Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA, Gaurav Jain, MD, Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, Mallika L. Mendu, MD, MBA
August 2, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Three Ways to Fix Value-Based Payments

Changing the Health Care Reimbursement Model Could Improve Quality and Lower Costs

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
July 15, 2024

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