We begin with a discussion of OBBBA’s community engagement requirements and their impact on the eligibility determination ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that facility fee reform could provide meaningful out-of-pocket relief to consumers ...

Research suggests that cannabis use is associated with potential therapeutic benefits but also individual health harms, particularly for adolescent populations. Evidence is inconsistent and, in some ...

Caitlin Carroll ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jessica Y. Chang, Health Care Cost Institute, Washington, D.C. Rural hospitals in the US have closed at a rapid ...

Using newly available Medicare enrollment data, we describe changes in look-alike plan offerings and dual-eligible enrollment ...

Christopher J. Ruhm ([email protected]), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality ...

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 ...

CMS has been working aggressively to improve the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) within the program’s statutory ...

Andrew W. Mulcahy ([email protected]), RAND, Arlington, Virginia. US prices for brand-name drugs are substantially higher than those in other countries. Recent “most favored nation” proposals aim to ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews James Robinson of the University of California Berkeley about his recent paper exploring ...

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 ...