CENTER UPDATE | JANUARY 2026 In this Issue: CMS Tests New Medicare Coverage Model for Weight Loss Drugs Declining Part D Plan Availability May Affect Beneficiaries Cervical Cancer Guideline Recommends Full Coverage of [...]
- Outpatient Deductibles Surge and Drive Higher Patient Costs
- Majority of Americans Still Shelling Out More for Care
- Fewer Plan Choices and Higher Costs Ahead for Medicare Advantage in 2026
- What Drives Beneficiaries to Switch Between MA and FFS Plans?
- State-by-State Differences in Medicare Drug Cost Burden [...]
- CMMI’s New Strategic Direction: Three Priorities For Success
- CMS chooses 6 states for WISeR Model
- How Policymakers Across the Country Are Fighting the Health Care Affordability Crisis
- Medical Debt Follows Cancer Patients Years After Diagnosis
- Workers to bear brunt of health cost increases in 2026 [...]
- Expanded Coverage and Patient Navigation for Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening
- Court Nixes Leaving Medical Debt Off Credit Reports
- Medicare could save $3.6B without risk to older adults, study suggests
- Waste of the Day: “Low-Value” Medicare Treatments
- Mercer survey: Employers may make a return to healthcare cost-shifting strategies [...]
- OBBB Expands HSA Access and Makes Telehealth Flexibility Permanent
- Prescription Drug Price Controls: Unintended Consequences for Medicare Patients
- Record Number of Adults Struggle to Afford Health Care and Medications
- Health Care Costs Reach $1,425 in Out of Pocket Spending
- Prescription Medication Costs Continue to Burden Americans
- New Whitepaper: Episode-Based Cost-Sharing
- New Bipartisan U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Eliminate Out-of-Pocket Costs for Childbirth
- Expanded HSA Benefits Could Boost Healthcare Savings Under New GOP Tax Plan
- Make American Health Care Affordable Again
- Virtual Mental Health Tools Improve Outcomes but Raise Costs for Employers and Plans [...]
- CMS Innovation Center Strategy to Make America Healthy Again Includes V-BID
- Cancer Costs Deplete Life Savings for Many Patients
- Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending Hit $98B in 2024
- Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Caregiving in Healthcare
- Financial Anxiety Reaches Record Levels Amid Healthcare Access Challenges [...]
- Supreme Court Case Could Disrupt Free Preventive Healthcare Access
- Vaccine Access and Coverage at Risk Amid Rising Infectious Disease Cases
- ACA Enrollment at Record High, But Policy Changes Could Raise Costs
- Remote Monitoring Use Grows Amid Concerns Over Value and Cost Alignment
- Cancer Rates Decline, but Disparities Remain [...]
- Supreme Court Case Could Disrupt Free Preventive Healthcare Access
- 35% of U.S. Adults Cannot Afford Health Care
- U.S. Adults are Still Behind on Cancer Screenings
- Unnecessary Imaging Scans Contributing To Climate Change
- Copay Waivers Boost Medication Adherence for Low-Income Medicare Members [...]
- Recap of the 2025 Virtual V-BID Summit
- V-BID Models Advance Cost-Effective Care in Nigeria
- Medicare Part D Reforms Drive Awareness but Beneficiaries Seek More Information
- Low Premiums Often Come with High Deductibles
- Rising Patient Costs Associated with Copay Accumulator and Maximizer Programs
- There's Still Time to Register for the 2025 V-BID Summit!
- Preventive Care Coverage at a Crossroads
- SCOTUS Will Hear Case Threatening No-Cost Preventive Care
- The Trump Administration’s Defense of the ACA’s Free Preventive Health Care Guarantee
- Chronic Disease Flexible Coverage Act Passed in House of Representatives [...]
- There's Still Time to Register for the 2025 V-BID Summit!
- Medicare Ends V-BID Model Over High Costs Despite Improved Patient Outcomes
- Expanding Access to Supplemental Benefits in Medicare
- Telemedicine Adoption Linked to Reduced Low-Value Care in Medicare
- Challenges and Solutions for Medicare Beneficiaries Struggling with Prescription Drug Costs [...]
- Trump Administration Backs ACA Preventive Coverage Mandate
- Medicare Advantage Enrollees Say They Value Their Plans Extra Benefits
- Rising Coinsurance Rates Drive Up Medicare Beneficiaries' Drug Costs
- How Hospitals Can Cut Wasteful Pre-Surgery Testing
- Use of Copay Adjustment Programs Reaches New High [...]
- The End of Medicare's V-BID Model: Costs, Challenges, and Future Prospects
- House of Representatives Bills Introduced to Expand Coverage in HSA-HDHPs
- The Future of Value-Based Insurance Design in Medicare After the MA V-BID Model
- Advocates Push for Medicare and Medicaid to Cover Anti-Obesity Medications
- Can Mandatory Value-Based Payment Models Improve Health Equity?
- Trump Executive Order invalidates Biden's $2 Generic Drug Proposal
- Prescription Drug Policy, 2024-2025/br>
- Medicare Reforms Necessitate More Formulary Oversight/br>
- Drug Price Negotiation Requires Oversight to Protect Older Americans/br>
- Medicare's New $2K Cap on Out-of-Pocket Drug Costs Could Save Patients Thousands [...]
