We begin with a discussion of OBBBA’s community engagement requirements and their impact on the eligibility determination ...

CMS has been working aggressively to improve the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) within the program’s statutory ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews James Robinson of the University of California Berkeley about his recent paper exploring ...

Using newly available Medicare enrollment data, we describe changes in look-alike plan offerings and dual-eligible enrollment ...

Caitlin Carroll ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jessica Y. Chang, Health Care Cost Institute, Washington, D.C. Rural hospitals in the US have closed at a rapid ...

The financial viability of rural hospitals has been a matter of serious concern, with ongoing closures affecting rural residents’ access to medical services. We examined the financial viability of ...

David Rosner ( [email protected]) is codirector of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City. The public health ...

The Veterans Health Administration is a large integrated health care system operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). By law, the VA can buy prescription drugs at discounted prices. But it ...

Andrew W. Mulcahy ([email protected]), RAND, Arlington, Virginia. US prices for brand-name drugs are substantially higher than those in other countries. Recent “most favored nation” proposals aim to ...

In this article, we outline actionable strategies for strengthening one of the most essential administrative data ...

Given the recent expansion of US family medicine residency programs, we updated data on the link between training location and practice location and explored its relationship with primary care ...

Multi-year coverage potentially improves the value of insurance by making it easier for insurers to pool high- and low-risk ...