healthcare
How Middlemen and Hidden Kickbacks Inflate Healthcare Costs
This is the time of year employers, local governments, employees, and individuals are looking at their healthcare renewals and expect double digit insurance premium increases for 2027. This pours fuel onto the fire of a…
New York’s Health Premiums Stayed at the Top in 2025
New Yorkers and their employers paid the highest health premiums in the lower 48 states in 2025, and their costs moved further above the U.S. average, according to recently released federal data. The most striking trend was…
Transformational Healthcare Reform
Key Points As hospitals and insurance systems have consolidated, patients have faced rising costs and narrower choices, while physicians have lost independence, and control has shifted to a handful of large corporate systems.…
Johnson uses new budget role to highlight out-of-control Medicaid spending and fraud
Democrats, meanwhile, blocking release of Medicaid enrollee information Ron Johnson, the third-term Republican U.S. senator from Oshkosh, is using his new perch as chair of the Senate Budget Committee to spotlight rampant…
Frontier Briefing: Fighting Fraud, Expanding Choice
Watch for the episode to go live here on Thursday, July 30th at 1:30 PM MST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkfpOOzGCE Montana State Auditor and Commissioner of Securities and Insurance James Brown joins Frontier Briefing…
Texas Has the Tools to Protect Health Data. Now We Just Need the Political Will.
Filled with anticipation, a woman in her early 30s downloads a fertility-tracking app. She and her husband are finally ready to start their young family and have a baby. Every morning she logs her cycle, her basal…
The Attorney General’s MFCU SNAFU
Attorney General Letitia James’ latest fight with the Trump administration focuses on New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, a federally funded agency housed in James’ office. On Tuesday, the inspector general of the U.S.…
Charity Care – Cardinal Institute
West Virginia non-profit hospitals enjoy billions in tax exemptions. In return, the social contract demands they provide meaningful charity care to struggling families. The data shows they are not holding up their end of the…
THE BASICS OF CERTIFICATE OF NEED
If you’ve been following the Cardinal Institute’s work for more than a few minutes, then you’ve probably heard the term Certificate of Need laws, a.k.a. CON laws, come up at some point. If you’re like most people, you might…
What Are Certificate of Need Laws?
If you’ve been following the Cardinal Institute’s work for more than a few minutes, then you’ve probably heard the term Certificate of Need laws, a.k.a. CON laws, come up at some point. If you’re like most people, you might…
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