The April 2024 special themed issue of Health Affairs on perinatal mental health and well-being brought together important ...

For 165 million nonelderly Americans, employers provide health insurance either by purchasing a fully insured plan or through self-insurance. By self-insuring, employers bear the financial risk for ...

Effective enforcement of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule can empower patients, foster competition, and help control ...

Key policies introduced over the past 45 years have brought new research organizations and investors into the pharmaceutical ...

At a time when policy and practice is moving toward coverage of Food Is Medicine (FIM) as benefits in insurance programs, it ...

Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, offers a nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussions on improving health care and health policy. With our events, we bring ...

Methods We described patterns of uninsurance before and after pregnancy for women with Medicaid coverage for their prenatal care, using PRAMS measures of insurance coverage at three points: one ...

Generic drug repurposing is an underused but promising tool for finding new, affordable therapies. Creating a pull incentive ...

Interoperability—the exchange and use of health care data—is a key component of care coordination. It also presents an ...

New data indicate that when payment models reward clinicians for supporting patients to take an active role in their care, ...

March-in rights are vital safeguards that allow the federal government to license competitors when the owner is not making a ...

Identification Of High-Veteran MA Plans For each year between 2016 and 2022, we defined high-veteran MA plans as MA plans with VHA enrollees exceeding 20 percent of their total enrollment, which ...