Thomas Kornfield is a Medicare policy expert with 25 years of public and private sector experience in Medicare Advantage and Part D payment policy. In his most r ...

On this sixteenth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I will review how the ACA’s dual-eligible policy initiatives ...

During the past two decades in the United States, all major payer types—commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, and multipayer coalitions—have introduced value-based purchasing (VBP) contracts to reward ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Em Balkan of Brown University about their recent paper showing that rapid disenrollment ...

In a bipartisan spending agreement negotiated largely behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major ...

Medicaid offers a promising option for sustainably funding community violence interventions in the current landscape.

Health Affairs has devoted many of its issues to the in-depth exploration of particular policy topics. These thematic issues gather together in one place the top research, important data, and policy ...

Evidence suggests that primary care physicians spend more time than other clinicians on activities that the fee schedule does ...

CMS’s proposed changes to the MA program have a strong basis in the empirical evidence and would reduce excess spending in MA ...

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin ([email protected]) is the Mike Curb Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in Nashville, Tennessee.

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of data from the American Hospital Association Annual Surveys and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Provider of Services files, 2010–22. NOTES A hospital was counted ...

Understanding what the US spends to treat mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) is important for understanding spending patterns and informing health policy. In this study, we determined ...