H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

Margaret K. Saunders ([email protected]) is deputy editor for global health at Health Affairs, in Bethesda, Maryland. To understand the institutions that lead global health governance today, it is ...

The quality of emergency department (ED) care for children in the US is highly variable. The National Pediatric Readiness Project aims to improve survival for children receiving emergency services. We ...

Michael Chernew ([email protected]) is a professor of health care policy at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Allison Rosen is an assistant professor in the Division of General Medicine at ...

Monica S. Aswani ([email protected]), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Lauren A. Do, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Paul R. Shafer, Boston University. The ...

Ken Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Sanjula Jain ( ...

In this piece, we explore reasons for creating a separate conversion factor within the MPFS, initially for advanced primary care management codes and eventually for a prospective payment to cover a ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Despite Medicaid’s importance as a payer and source of coverage for mental health care, relatively little is known about how prevalence, access, and quality might vary among Medicaid beneficiaries.

Glen P. Mays ( [email protected]) is the F. Douglas Scutchfield Endowed Professor in Health Services and Systems Research, College of Public Health, at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. Cezar ...

Terence Ng is a senior research analyst in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Charlene Harrington ( [email protected]) is professor emeritus of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantial increases in the use of telehealth and virtual care in the US. Differential patient and provider access to technology and resources has raised concerns ...