How much does the absence of a formal “social media addiction” diagnosis matter in consumer-protection cases alleging that platforms misled consumers about compulsive use?

Claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts from 2018 through the first half of 2025 reveal that recent spending ...

More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), yet concerns persist about overpayments to MA plans, inadequate plan oversight, and limits on beneficiaries’ access to ...

Anti-immigrant rhetoric, changes in US immigration policy, and increased enforcement have been linked to poor health outcomes among Hispanic populations, but less is known about how these shifts have ...

Prior research has demonstrated potential health and social benefits associated with receipt of housing assistance during childhood. However, those findings have been primarily limited to health ...

Although hospitals and insurers have traditionally operated as separate organizations, an increasing number of health systems have begun offering vertically integrated insurance plans, known as ...

The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is increasing. Amid specialist shortages and growing reliance on advanced practice providers, high-quality dementia care across ...

Care coordinators, proper accommodations, and funding can make cancer screenings more accessible to people with physical disabilities.

This month’s issue of Health Affairs features a wide variety of content. We lead the issue with a pair of articles that look at insurer-provider negotiations: one regarding “brinkmanship” in hospital ...

Medicaid managed care provides a structural framework to fight waste and fraud and reduce the cost to taxpayers.

Value-based care is conventionally classified as an alternative payment model. That classification mistakes the output for ...

Each of the several bipartisan bills being considered by Congress to promote biosimilar competition would have major ...