Hospitals across the country—particularly those operating emergency departments—face a mounting storm of legal, operational, ...

After four years, federal price transparency rules have revealed a meaningful number of prices. But they’ve revealed ...

Medicaid’s open-ended matching funding arrangements distribute a much larger amount of federal funding to wealthier states ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the pod to take a look at the recent government ...

The medical loss ratio drives higher premiums and higher medical care spending and presents other unintended consequences ...

By learning the lessons of previous successes, increasing access to treatment, supporting those in recovery, and ...

With 2026 rates already set and consumers starting to learn of premium increases, delays in extending the PTC enhancements ...

The final guidance for the 2028 cycle of the Medicare drug price negotiation reflects CMS’s continued effort to balance ...

When implemented in state employee health plans, reference-based hospital price caps have the potential to save states money ...

Understanding the needs of high-need, high-cost community-based beneficiaries, including homebound status, will help Medicare ...

We contrast the differences between the traditional model of vaccine federalism and the emerging paradigms introduced by the ...

By quantifying the growth and distribution of outpatient facility fees, states such as Colorado, Maine, Connecticut, and ...