Advocates for Head Start are faced with the question of whether the program can remain as effective without the same ...

The decisive midterm elections will have significant implications for a wide range of health policy priorities—in Congress, ...

Despite lower negotiated prices, uncertainty around GLP-1 uptake, budget exposure, and long-term cost offsets may limit state participation in BALANCE. In December 2025, the Centers for Medicare and ...

The answer lies in a powerful narrative circulating for years before the FDA convened its panel, one that recast the original ...

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a drug manufacturer trade group, challenged the final rule on GLOBE ...

We have now seen AI going from renewing prescriptions to writing them in less than a year. The next step will likely be ...

In the past year, the Innovation Center has built the foundation of its evidence-based prevention pillar. The Center intends to maintain momentum with new prevention-focused payment models to advance ...

Hospice care accounts for an increasing share of Medicare spending, paid by Medicare through a daily capitated rate that is not risk-adjusted. In recent years, for-profit entities, notably private ...

Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to prescription opioids, and more patients receiving medications used for ...

Many environmental sustainability strategies are available to hospitals and health systems, but their full impacts are not well understood. We modeled the financial, health, and environmental impacts ...

CMS should develop a GLP-1 Total Cost of Care Scorecard that integrates spending across Medicare Parts A, B, and D; stratifies outcomes by beneficiary risk; and explicitly measures the economics of ...

Capitation incentivizes Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to contract with providers willing to accept lower prices, and providers participating in MA are subject to managed care administrative burdens.