Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Robert Burke of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent paper which evaluates ...

Millions of people across the South—particularly in rural or low-income areas—have limited or no access to preventive oral ...

The final rule covers a wide range of topics. This article covers the rule’s changes to shorten the annual open enrollment ...

Rather than waiting for stalled Congressional efforts to enact so-far elusive Medicare policy changes, states could pursue ...

Paid family leave policies have the potential to reduce health disparities, yet access to paid leave remains limited and unevenly distributed in the United States. Using California administrative c ...

The Affordable Care Act was designed to provide financial protection to Americans in their use of the health care system. This required addressing two intertwined problems: cost barriers to accessi ...

Perinatal mental illness is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in the United States. Although better acute care services for mental health conditions are desper ...

Sustained federal funding from the CDC, NIH, and other federal agencies (e.g., the National Institute of Justice and the ...

It is easy to predict an escalating crisis in staffing our nation’s pediatric departments and children’s hospitals for ...

Violating the rule of law and validating the whim of the administration will create chaos and undermine care. A far better ...

Two-thirds of US hospices were not given a star rating when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its hospice star rating system in 2022. Since then, the share of hospices ...

Expanding the systematic surveillance of attacks on health care infrastructure represents a critical opportunity for ...