From Vision to Action: Aligning Health Policy and Innovation within the AI Action Plan On July 23, the Trump administration released a three-pillar AI Action Plan. Senior Policy Analyst Katie Adams, along with Associate Directors Maya Sandalow and John Fogarty, discuss BPC’s aligned priorities to foster innovation and promote the responsible use of AI in health care. Read here> Trump’s Fiscal Federalism Shift Forces States Into Tough Choices The federal government is pulling back significant state funding through executive actions and as part of the tax-and-spending reconciliation package signed into law July 4. In this featured article, BPC’s Executive Vice President of Economic and Health Policy Jonathan Burks explains why this will critically impact state fiscal health, local economies, and ultimately the tens of millions of Americans who benefit from these programs. Read here> Mapping the Rise of AI in Federal Health Agencies The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has utilized AI tools since 1996, with adoption steadily increasing in recent years. In this blog, Amber Tran and Katie Adams highlight the growing use of AI across federal health agencies, including HHS, CDC, and FDA. Read here> Medicare at 60: A Program of Change & Challenges 60 years ago this summer, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid programs into law. While Medicare remains widely popular, it is often confusing for beneficiaries, complex to administer, and costly. Senior Vice President Bill Hoagland explains why finding a more balanced public-private approach to health care will be a key challenge for the next 60 years of Medicare. Read here> The Need for Medicare Part B Physician Payment Reform - Issue Brief 2 of 3 The second brief in a three-part series on Medicare examines the key barriers limiting clinicians’ participation in promising alternative payment models (APMs). Drawing on assessments of APMs to date, BPC health staff highlight lessons learned from the most successful models and explain how misaligned financial incentives, design flaws, and administrative burdens continue to hinder clinician participation. Read here> | 
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