Paragon Health Institute

What’s next for Medicare? Hear directly from CMS's current and previous Medicare Directors, Chris Klomp & Demetrios Kouzoukas. 📅 Jan 27 | 🕐 1–2pm ET | 💻 Zoom 🔗 https://t2m.io/sjt1xwu

CMS reports only a modest drop (-6.4%) in Obamacare enrollment after the COVID-era subsidies expired. Paragon's analysis suggests why: many improper and phantom enrollees remain. There were an estimated 6.4M improper enrollees in 2025, and many were likely re-enrolled for 2026. https://t2m.io/S4HfnRf 

For decades, U.S. dietary policy told Americans to avoid fat, eat more grains, and fear red meat. Obesity soared. Diabetes surged. The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines flip the pyramid — putting protein, healthy fats, and real food first. Learn more: https://t2m.io/sB5bMiV

New PIC: ACA subsidy spending exploded 115% from 2019–2024 — more than double Medicaid growth and nearly triple Medicare. COVID-era policy changes opened the door to fraud, waste & insurer windfalls. https://t2m.io/64yPRam

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) sit at the center of a complex, opaque drug pricing system. They negotiate rebates meant to lower premiums—but patients often still pay high list prices at the pharmacy counter. Paragon’s brief explains what PBMs are and how they affect drug prices. https://t2m.io/1nuRDeH

🚨States are abusing Medicaid’s Intergovernmental Transfer (IGT) loophole to inflate payments to public providers and rake in federal funds—without real state spending. Taxpayers lose. Private providers get sidelined. Congress and CMS must act. https://t2m.io/sDaVf7b

📈 New York has 3x as many home health aides per capita as the rest of the country. This massive outlier raises serious questions about fraud and oversight in Medicaid-funded services. New Paragon PIC ⬇️ https://t2m.io/O9x4xox

Paragon Health Institute released a statement on the Great Healthcare Plan, outlining its potential to improve affordability, access, and patient-centered care 👇

I want to thank Fierce Healthcare for covering the formal launch of Healthcare AI Initiative by #ParagonHealthInstitute. I also want to thank Paragon for their continuing support of my work in AI. https://lnkd.in/g2-3Rkjj

Paragon President, Brian Blase explains the problem of "phantom enrollment" in Obamacare and how government health care subsidies incentivize fraud.