Since expenditures are heavily skewed, the top 5 percent of patients by cost contribute a disproportionate amount to the mean ...

Should Congress pursue a wide range of possible budget-cutting strategies during the budget reconciliation process, all Medicaid populations, from the youngest infants to the most vulnerable older ...

The unwinding of the MA-VBID Model does not portend the end of the use of V-BID to improve access to high-value services for Medicare beneficiaries. Enrollees who remain in MA will likely be able to ...

Anti-LGBTQI+ public policies overwhelmingly target youth and young adults, disrupting access to educational opportunities, ...

A year after guidelines were revised to remove the use of race in eGFR, many labs and pathologists were still relying on the ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Jennifer Wolff of John Hopkins University about her recent paper that explores the increasing number of family caregivers that are assisting ...

President Trump reinstated an expanded version of the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which prevents organizations that ...

The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...

This article summarizes the provisions of the final 2026 HHS Notice of Benefit Payment Parameters related to the individual ...

Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...

The striking increase in US drug overdose deaths involving opioids 1, 2 has motivated policy makers to enhance the nation’s capacity to treat patients with opioid use disorder. Despite evidence ...

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