Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

John Creighton Campbell ( [email protected]) is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Naoki Ikegami is professor and chair of the Department of Health ...

In October 2021, a Pennsylvania judge denied the property tax exemption for three hospitals owned by a Pennsylvania hospital system, claiming that operations at the hospitals in question had become ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Obesity affects the way drugs behave in the body. Yet, our regulatory systems ignore this fact entirely. At a recent virtual workshop on drug safety and efficacy in people with obesity, Food and Drug ...

So rare is bipartisan regulatory legislation in Congress, especially in health care, that when it occurs one must presume it is in response to prohibitive costs to society or a threat to patient ...

A new bargaining chip appeared on the table as hospital employees in Iowa negotiated a new contract with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics—protection from patient attacks. Iowa’s increase ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.

Social determinants of health can adversely affect health and therefore lead to poor health care outcomes. When it launched in 2017, the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model was at the forefront ...