Low smoking rates should not become a rationale for retreating from tobacco control, particularly when teen smoking rates ...

Exploring the economic and policy trends shaping health care affordability, coverage, utilization, and payment in 2026 and ...

Federal policy makers and state Medicaid agencies can make it easier and provide stronger incentives for dual eligible special needs plans and other partners to coordinate long-term services and ...

Two leading health policy experts discuss lessons from the past 20 years and challenges ahead for coverage, costs, and reform ...

Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge program is off to a fast start, but gaps in prior authorization design may exclude beneficiaries who ...

A look back at two decades of Health Affairs Forefront and the editorial vision that helped shape a leading health policy forum.

How much does the absence of a formal “social media addiction” diagnosis matter in consumer-protection cases alleging that platforms misled consumers about compulsive use?

Medicaid managed care provides a structural framework to fight waste and fraud and reduce the cost to taxpayers.

Claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts from 2018 through the first half of 2025 reveal that recent spending ...

More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), yet concerns persist about overpayments to MA plans, inadequate plan oversight, and limits on beneficiaries’ access to ...

Timely access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment is critical to improving health outcomes, yet treatment delays remain a barrier. Using national Treatment Episode Data Set–Admissions data from ...

US health care spending growth has long outpaced economic growth. However, during the period 2014–19 (before the COVID-19 pandemic), growth in per capita health care spending relative to per capita ...