Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Paige Nong of the University of Minnesota about her recent paper that evaluates and explores the current use of artificial intelligence and ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

This article does not attempt to predict the potential policies that the new administration and Congress might pursue or how ...

We can do better. We can build a system that provides coordinated high-quality care to every patient who needs it.

Given forthcoming changes to Medicare Part D plans under the Inflation Reduction Act, CMS should collect and publish ...

During his first term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order labeling structural racism and related ...

President Trump reinstated an expanded version of the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which prevents organizations that receive federal global health funding from providing access to abortion-related ...

Transparency in the program is more than just a mechanism for fair pricing—it is a driving force that diminishes the returns ...

Expanding eligibility for MSPs is an important avenue to support health care affordability for older low-income adults, ...

The Quality Pathway can drive greater care improvements through the use of multiple complementary levers of change, such as ...

In late October 2024, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) released data for the eleventh year of the ...