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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMS should ensure that temporary spending shocks—such as the recent spike in skin substitute costs—are not mechanically ...

Austin B. Frakt ([email protected]) is director of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System; an associate professor at the Boston University ...