Medicare pays hospital outpatient departments higher rates than physician-owned practices, leading to higher spending and incentivizing hospitals to acquire physician practices. The Bipartisan Budget ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Thomas Buchmueller of the University of Michigan to discuss his recent paper that ...

Policymakers, researchers, community leaders, and advocates must continue their efforts to improve maternal health, including perinatal mental health, under the new administration.

The potential of biotech-powered consumer health is as sensitive as it is expansive. When it comes to consumer education, ...

For the many young adults living with diabetes, health insurance coverage transitions are not only stressful; they can also ...

The new guidance builds on previous years’ by increasing the focus on transparency and expanding, per statute, to include ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new limits on how states use provider taxes to finance their ...

Conflicting QSSD definitions from two federal agencies mean that CMS’ administrative authority on drug pricing and payment is ...

Delaying Medicare’s ability to negotiate prices on small-molecule drugs until 13 years after FDA approval will decrease the ...

Now is the time for policy makers, payers, health systems, and clinicians to act decisively by extending AHCaH, evaluating ...

The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) model could be further strengthened by enhancements and clarifications of ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Caitlin Carroll of the University of Minnesota to discuss her recent ...