Medicare’s opioid treatment benefit unintentionally encourages underuse of psychosocial services. The authors propose a ...

The recently proposed Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability rule proposes the elimination of core patient-safety ...

In a bipartisan spending agreement negotiated largely behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Em Balkan of Brown University about their recent paper showing that rapid disenrollment ...

Medicaid offers a promising option for sustainably funding community violence interventions in the current landscape.

BC, FAAN, FAHA, is a nurse scientist and associate professor of emergency medicine and health equity science at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the associate director of the Center for ...

If we measure the strength of public health by its ability to protect those who cannot yet protect themselves, the ...

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin ([email protected]) is the Mike Curb Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jesus Ruiz, MD, is a family physician practicing full-spectrum family medicine with obstetrics in rural North Carolina, providing prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, an ...

During the past two decades in the United States, all major payer types—commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and multipayer coalitions—have introduced value-based purchasing (VBP) contracts to reward ...

Evidence suggests that primary care physicians spend more time than other clinicians on activities that the fee schedule does ...

Insurance churn, or moving between different insurance plans or between insurance and uninsurance, is common during the perinatal period. We used survey data from the 2012–17 Pregnancy Risk Assessment ...