The increasing use of emergency department (ED) care resources continues to contribute to rising health care costs despite decades of research on strategies to reduce care delivered at EDs. 1 ...

Following the approval of a drug by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), health plans decide what access their enrollees will have to the product. The US commercial health insurance market ...

Patient And Hospital Characteristics Patients’ demographic characteristics used for risk adjustment included age, sex, and twenty-nine comorbidities collected by the Nationwide Readmissions ...

Linda Blumberg ([email protected]) is a principal research associate at the Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, in Washington, D.C. John Holahan directs that center, and Jack Hadley is also a ...

Adjusted estimates of the cost implications of projected Medicare Advantage growth are lacking and essential to discussions ...

The US has pioneered advanced technologies in almost all economic sectors only to watch the subsequent commercialization, ...

Under budget legislation passed by the House on May 22, Medicaid enrollees would face work requirements two years sooner than ...

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA), the privately run and capitated segment of the Medicare program, increased from 23 percent of all beneficiaries in 2009 to 35 percent in 2018. 1 It is ...

Garen J. Wintemute ([email protected]) is the Baker-Teret Chair in Violence Prevention and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California Davis, in Sacramento. He directs the ...

Jean Mitchell ( [email protected]) is a professor of public policy in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. In recent years physician ownership of so ...

Rebuilding trust between women and the health care system is critical to address the root causes that have led us where we ...

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 ...