In this article, we outline actionable strategies for strengthening one of the most essential administrative data ...

David Rosner ( [email protected]) is codirector of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City. The public health ...

Sandra L. Decker ( [email protected]) is a senior fellow at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Maryland. Brandy J. Lipton is a senior fellow at the Agency for Healthcare ...

The Veterans Health Administration is a large integrated health care system operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). By law, the VA can buy prescription drugs at discounted prices. But it ...

This study investigated how geography helps explain the striking increase in opioid-related overdose deaths among Black Americans since the proliferation of fentanyl. Using mortality data from the ...

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...

With a growing demand for mental health and substance use disorder services, states should think creatively about policies to extend and grow the workforce.

The “it’s the prices” narrative focuses attention on a set of fee-schedule-oriented policies (some of which, as noted above, I support). The concern I have is that this narrative focuses attention ...

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care ...

Multi-year coverage potentially improves the value of insurance by making it easier for insurers to pool high- and low-risk ...

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...

Maryland hospitals have operated under all-payer global budget models since 2014. Within Medicare, evaluations have estimated the resulting cost savings to be $1.6 billion for the period 2014–22. To ...