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Insights & Perspectives
Insights & perspectives features MCRA Member contributions, organizational updates, and informed viewpoints on the issues influencing healthcare today. It’s where MCRA Members share expertise, progress, and perspective.
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Why Trust is Key to Member Engagement
Discover why trust is key to member engagement, and explore how Medicare and Medicaid plans can build this trust through reliability, transparency, and peer-to-peer connections to help members achieve better health outcomes.
Sep 5, 20252 min read
OBBBA Provider Tax Provisions Impact on Medicaid Stakeholders
Avalere Health explores the changes to provider tax provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The article discusses how it will impact state Medicaid funding, and its effects will be felt by plans and providers.
Aug 25, 20254 min read
New York State employers may need to cover more employees on their health plans effective 1/1/26
The One Big Beautiful Bill is projected to impact healthcare in New York State for people on Medicaid, the Essential Plan, and those that receive marketplace subsidies. Strategic Advisor, Andrew Biernat, explores the impact of the bill.
Jul 24, 20252 min read
CMS’s RADV Strategy Will Reverberate Throughout Health Plan Operations
Avalere Health and DRG Claims Management explore how Medicare Advantage plans must take a coordinated, organization-wide approach ahead of CMS' new risk adjustment data validation (RADV) strategy in a recent MHE article.
Jul 16, 20257 min read
Low-Intervention, High-Impact: Unlocking Provider Value with System-Level Analytics
System-level analytics help identify the providers consistently delivering high-value care — at scale. Instead of focusing on single visits, this approach analyzes patterns across entire panels and populations.
Jul 16, 20252 min read
Selling is Hard and Getting Harder
Barry Volin, MCRA Founder and CEO reflects on the growth and accomplishments of the first half of 2025.
Jul 8, 20252 min read
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