Ronald Evens ( [email protected]) is an adjunct research professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, at the Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, and an ...

H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

Joachim O. Hero ( [email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alan M. Zaslavsky is a professor of health care policy (statistics) in ...

Margaret K. Saunders ([email protected]) is deputy editor for global health at Health Affairs, in Bethesda, Maryland. To understand the institutions that lead global health governance today, it is ...

Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...

The Child Tax Credit is a near-universal benefit for families with children. Each year, it lifts millions of children out of poverty. Adding income to low- and middle-income families has been shown to ...

There is strong evidence characterizing housing’s relationship to health. Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes, as do physical and social characteristics of ...

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published online today by Health Affairs, estimates that in 2021 health care spending in the ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.

Physician practices are increasingly being acquired by hospitals and health systems. Despite evidence that this type of vertical integration is profitable for hospitals, the association between these ...

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...

On Sunday, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, which includes comprehensive reforms to Medicare drug pricing policy. The House is expected to take up the legislation on Friday ...