CMS and states can take practical, near-term policy actions to strengthen whole-person care for dual-eligible beneficiaries ...

HIPAA was not designed to protect patients in a world where their medical samples can be repurposed as a full forensic ...

Presenteeism, or attending work despite being ill enough to warrant absence, is endemic among working Americans. Although research suggests that paid sick leave mandates reduce presenteeism, it has ...

The Camden Coalition’s Community Ecosystem Alignment Tool can help diagnose coordination gaps, improve performance, and ...

Can the model generate sufficient clinical improvement to justify the likely distortions that accompany large-scale payment ...

States are now required to suspend Medicaid benefits for incarcerated adults instead of terminating them outright. But the ...

Between 2019 and 2021, six states expanded Medicaid through voter-approved ballot initiatives, overcoming legislative opposition. We used 2016–23 data from the American Community Survey to compare ...

Tobacco use drives large health and fiscal costs for Medicaid, yet few enrollees who use these products receive cessation pharmacotherapy. We estimated that 10.4 percent of daily tobacco or nicotine ...

States have emerged as laboratories to test policies to contain health care spending. In 2010, Rhode Island adopted novel affordability standards that reduced commercial prices and hospital revenues.

Expanding access to the CCBHC program for Medicare enrollees with behavioral health needs should be a policy priority.

There were signs, early warning signs in that last year,but all seemed well,even improving,until she wasn’t,until one day, one early Monday in late Mayanswering a call so frantic and furied, frenzied ...

This issue of Health Affairs covers price transparency, Medicare, Medicaid, and many other topics, including several entries in our ongoing series, The Practice Of Medicine, Age-Friendly Health, and ...