The decisive midterm elections will have significant implications for a wide range of health policy priorities—in Congress, ...

Advocates for Head Start are faced with the question of whether the program can remain as effective without the same ...

The answer lies in a powerful narrative circulating for years before the FDA convened its panel, one that recast the original ...

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a drug manufacturer trade group, challenged the final rule on GLOBE ...

Despite lower negotiated prices, uncertainty around GLP-1 uptake, budget exposure, and long-term cost offsets may limit state participation in BALANCE.

We have now seen AI going from renewing prescriptions to writing them in less than a year. The next step will likely be ...

Hospice care accounts for an increasing share of Medicare spending, paid by Medicare through a daily capitated rate that is not risk-adjusted. In recent years, for-profit entities, notably private ...

Many environmental sustainability strategies are available to hospitals and health systems, but their full impacts are not well understood. We modeled the financial, health, and environmental impacts ...

Capitation incentivizes Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to contract with providers willing to accept lower prices, and providers participating in MA are subject to managed care administrative burdens.

The November issue of Health Affairs features articles on hospitals, climate and health, and physician payment. The issue also includes articles in our ongoing series Age-Friendly Health (supported b ...

The process that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses to determine relative values for each physician service has been critiqued for undervaluing primary care relative to ...

CMS should develop a GLP-1 Total Cost of Care Scorecard that integrates spending across Medicare Parts A, B, and D; stratifies outcomes by beneficiary risk; and explicitly measures the economics of ...