Ronald Evens ( [email protected]) is an adjunct research professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, at the Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, and an ...

The patient-centered medical home model aspires to fundamentally restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid program ...

We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...

Variation in Medicare payments across ambulatory settings has led to concerns about unnecessary spending and incentives to deliver care in more highly reimbursed settings. Across all settings, ...

James J. Crall ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.

Genevieve P. Kanter ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, both at the University of ...

On Sunday, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, which includes comprehensive reforms to Medicare drug pricing policy. The House is expected to take up the legislation on Friday ...

Maria W. Steenland, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Laura R. Wherry ([email protected]), New York University, New York, New York. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions ...

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...

The primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has undeniably narrowed racial and ethnic health disparities by reducing the uninsured rate and improving access to care for people of color. Yet, significant gaps ...