Our fragile health care commons of the community wealth and trust is being depleted not through overuse but through ...

Air pollution contributes to the development of numerous adverse human health outcomes. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program–Community Edition ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dr. Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, about his ...

Justin H. Markowski ([email protected]), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Jacob Wallace, Yale University. Chima D. Ndumele, Yale University. Since 1965, the US federal government has ...

The Indian Health Service is chronically underfunded and understaffed, creating persistent challenges in access and continuity of care. Intensifying those shortages are federal regulations that treat ...

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI-A) aims to reduce hospital spending and generate savings for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The design of BPCI-A ...

The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...

A new federal rule has quietly made nursing education financially inaccessible. The Department of Education recently locked in place a 1960s-era list of “professions,” and nursing wasn’t on that list.

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from the American Hospital Association Annual Surveys and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provider of Services files, 2010–22. NOTES A hospital was counted ...

In part 1 of this article below, we discuss the history of and legal issues regarding the interstate sale of insurance and ...

Medicaid adult dental coverage is an optional benefit that states often add or remove in response to budgetary pressures. The effect of these fluctuations on access to dental services is unclear.

Perhaps no other individual has contributed so much for so long to American health care as Stuart Altman. And Stuart did it with grace and humor in ways that endeared him to people across the ...