As HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selectively cherry-picked many of his long-standing interests and their purported ...
Despite a lack of evidence of clinical benefit and substantial safety and quality concerns, an FDA advisory committee ...
The Trump administration is seeking changes that go beyond legal requirements. Institutional leaders must demand that any federal constraints on the pursuit of health equity be grounded in law.
The rapid growth of private equity (PE) and publicly traded corporation (PTC) ownership in hospice has raised concerns that investor-driven profit incentives may undermine care quality. Evidence on ...
The August issue of Health Affairs includes articles on pharmaceutical economics, physician practice, and hospitals. Many other topics are featured, including articles in our ongoing article series.
Medicare Advantage (MA) has become a major source of dental coverage for older US adults. However, little is known about enrollment in plans with dental coverage or about the scope and continued ...
Responding to patient-initiated portal messages is a growing source of work for physicians, yet little is known about how these messages are distributed across patients and physicians. Understanding ...
Physician-administered drugs and biologics account for a growing share of pharmaceutical spending, but they also generate substantial revenues for the hospitals and physician practices that acquire ...
Vertical integration between Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and hospital providers is increasingly common, but little is known about how vertically integrated plans pay affiliated providers for medical ...
In a new book review, Senior Editor Margaret Winchester reviews Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States by Miranda Yaver.
When the first set of prices under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program went into effect, they intersected with the 340B Drug Pricing Program and created the potential for billions of dollars ...
Many details of these agreements remain undisclosed, but what we know suggests they may be less far-reaching than claimed.