Congress has an obligation to direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to partner with state Medicaid leaders ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that facility fee reform could provide meaningful out-of-pocket relief to consumers ...

We begin with a discussion of OBBBA’s community engagement requirements and their impact on the eligibility determination ...

Using newly available Medicare enrollment data, we describe changes in look-alike plan offerings and dual-eligible enrollment ...

Benjamin D. Ukert ([email protected]), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, and Elevance Health, Indianapolis, Indiana. Theodoros V. Giannouchos, University ...

On January 15, 2026, I published a Forefront commentary about a paper published in Health Affairs by Micah Hartman and colleagues at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) analyzing the ...

Caitlin Carroll ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jessica Y. Chang, Health Care Cost Institute, Washington, D.C. Rural hospitals in the US have closed at a rapid ...

CMS has been working aggressively to improve the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) within the program’s statutory ...

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care ...

Eric Bressman, MD, MSHP, is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Econom ...

Timothy Bulat ([email protected]), Actuarial Research Corporation, Columbia, Maryland. Sean R. McClellan, Abt Global, Berkeley, California. Matthew J. Trombley, Abt ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews James Robinson of the University of California Berkeley about his recent paper exploring ...