Litigation should not be the strategy to achieve Star Rating reform. It is the alarm, not the repair.

The problem isn’t legalization. It’s how we’ve chosen to legalize: by defaulting to a kind of Wild West capitalism that ...

If states, including California, proceed with a penalty scaled to the full spending gap, they should recognize that they are essentially setting a global budget—and that effective global budgets need ...

The agency has failed to consider ways in which industry influence can shape the patient voices that the FDA hears.

It’s worth taking the time to institute practices that ensure this money is used in ways that honor the tens of thousands of ...

Addiction science has produced practical, life-saving knowledge because federal research has been guided by rigorous peer ...

Housing First has a strong and extensive evidence base demonstrating that it improves housing stability. Findings on health outcomes and costs are mixed, although it is not clear whether this reflects ...

From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending was highest and grew most rapidly among Americans in the top income quintile. During this period, age- and health-adjusted real spending grew 1.8 ...

Exhibit 1 National health expenditures (NHE) and personal health care (PHC) expenditures, aggregate and per capita amounts, share of gross domestic product (GDP), and annual growth, selected calendar ...

Multi-year coverage potentially improves the value of insurance by making it easier for insurers to pool high- and low-risk enrollees. But this will require careful implementation. Multi-year coverage ...

A review of pharmaceutical industry SEC filings and earnings calls reveals three major trends from 2017 to 2025: structural changes in research and development spending, cautious financial framing of ...

Although there are myriad policy and technical challenges, evidence-based Section1115 waiver social needs demonstrations have the potential to effectively and efficiently improve health in the ...