The alignment of incentives is clear. Treatment of tobacco use improves patient health, lowers total medical expense, and, ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Stacie Dusetzina of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and David Simon of the ...

For now, the most reasonable stance is watchful waiting: acknowledging the real problems WISeR seeks to address, recognizing ...

The North Carolina State Health Plan experience shows us that large, self-insured employers can work to bend the cost curve ...

This Forefront article details the proposed changes to Medicaid eligibility and financing, the anticipated outcomes for ...

A patient-led process for comparing actual bills to data reported under the hospital price transparency rule would help the ...

In 2025, the average annual premium for family health coverage reached $26,993, an increase of $1,408 (6 percent) from the previous year. Covered workers contributed an average of 16 percent ($1,440) ...

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

This shift could improve care coordination and create opportunities for cost savings through enhanced formulary flexibility ...

Under FDA regulations, suspension is not the end of the process. Unless a license holder voluntarily relinquishes its license ...

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

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