The rapid growth of private equity (PE) and publicly traded corporation (PTC) ownership in hospice has raised concerns that investor-driven profit incentives may undermine care quality. Evidence on ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) has become a major source of dental coverage for older US adults. However, little is known about enrollment in plans with dental coverage or about the scope and continued ...

The August issue of Health Affairs includes articles on pharmaceutical economics, physician practice, and hospitals. Many other topics are featured, including articles in our ongoing article series.

Responding to patient-initiated portal messages is a growing source of work for physicians, yet little is known about how these messages are distributed across patients and physicians. Understanding ...

Many details of these agreements remain undisclosed, but what we know suggests they may be less far-reaching than claimed.

Since 1971, protection against measles, mumps, and rubella has been delivered in a single combined injection. A proposal to ...

The current MA risk adjustment model has shortcomings, both in predictive accuracy and payment equity across the Medicare ...

Understanding the impact of price controls on drug research and approvals of secondary indications is critical for policy ...

Pediatrics is increasingly moving toward regionalized hub-and-spoke models organized around comprehensive “centers of ...

What California chooses in the next six months will determine whether a decade of Medicaid transformation holds or collapses ...

The premise of Medicaid as a policy laboratory rests on generating knowledge through rigorous evaluation. Yet, too often, ...

Instead of sporadically updating antiquated models, CMS must develop a new risk-adjustment platform. This will require the technology and analytics infrastructure to evaluate, deploy, and update ...