In this article, we outline actionable strategies for strengthening one of the most essential administrative data assets—encounter data—and explain how improving this resource can unlock the ...

The “it’s the prices” narrative focuses attention on a set of fee-schedule-oriented policies (some of which, as noted above, I support). The concern I have is that this narrative focuses attention ...

With a growing demand for mental health and substance use disorder services, states should think creatively about policies to extend and grow the workforce.

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...

Renee Gross, JD, is the community behavioral health initiatives lead for Kaiser Permanente.

Multi-year coverage potentially improves the value of insurance by making it easier for insurers to pool high- and low-risk ...

Maryland hospitals have operated under all-payer global budget models since 2014. Within Medicare, evaluations have estimated the resulting cost savings to be $1.6 billion for the period 2014–22. To ...

The FDA should improve device safety by increasing the amount and availability of information about previously marketed ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

The US pays higher drug prices than do peer nations, thereby financing a disproportionate share of global pharmaceutical research and development. President Donald Trump has announced himself willing ...

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 ...