Medicare is on shaky ground in the current policy environment, making it difficult to sustain its accomplishments, much less ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Dr. Aaron Carroll, President and CEO of AcademyHealth, to the pod to discuss his recent ...

Given the Trump administration’s priorities and CMS’s recently announced strategy around evidence-based prevention and cost ...

OBBBA poses an immense stress test for both Community Health Centers and Medicaid. But over the decades, these programs have ...

Though Medicaid saves lives and provides access to health care for millions of people, it has been constrained by the top-down power relations that structure it.

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 ...

To receive Medicare benefits, eligible people select either traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage (MA)—options that differ markedly in cost, benefits, financial arrangements, and who pays ...

As Medicaid marks its 60th anniversary amid perennial debates about the program’s future, its origins and much of its evolution can be traced back to a single state: Arkansas.

Karen Ignagni serves as Executive Chair of the EmblemHealth, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plans, having provided New Yorkers high-quality, af ...

This moment challenges all stakeholder groups to begin to work together to address the needs of those who now are in danger ...

The cost of health care, the competitiveness of markets, and private equity’s troublesome record in the health sector are ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Margaret Sieger of the University of Kansas Medical Center about her recent paper that ...