Our fragile health care commons of the community wealth and trust is being depleted not through overuse but through ...

The 2028 negotiation cycle marks another major inflection point in the implementation of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program—its first year incorporating Part B drugs and its first opportunity ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dr. Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, about his ...

Innovative outcomes-based metrics for the emergency department boarding population will be needed to avert threats to patient safety that are inadvertently caused by the adoption of time-based quality ...

Young adults’ access to contraception is shifting after the June 2022 United States Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. This concurrent mixed-methods study measured ...

Justin H. Markowski ([email protected]), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Jacob Wallace, Yale University. Chima D. Ndumele, Yale University. Since 1965, the US federal government has ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing challenges in US nursing homes around staffing conditions, with nearly one in five nursing homes reporting severe staffing shortages during the early ...

Concerns about low physician participation in Medicaid have long motivated policy reforms, but the extent to which enrolled physicians actually care for Medicaid patients remains unclear. To assess ...

Nicholas W. Rizer, MD, is an emergency physician and a health policy and leadership fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

The Indian Health Service is chronically underfunded and understaffed, creating persistent challenges in access and continuity of care. Intensifying those shortages are federal regulations that treat ...

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI-A) aims to reduce hospital spending and generate savings for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The design of BPCI-A ...

The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...