Information from CMS’s published explanations of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program negotiated prices for 2027 will help manufacturers and other stakeholders meaningfully engage in the ...

Evidence suggests that primary care physicians spend more time than other clinicians on activities that the fee schedule does not reimburse at all. A hybrid approach that incorporates population-based ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews David Powell of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent paper exploring new ...

In a bipartisan spending agreement negotiated largely behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major implications for Medicare payment parity and the potential to set the stage for ...

Buried in Section 6225 of the recently signed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 is a small but mighty transparency provision: a unique national provider identifier requirement. This measure has ...

In a bipartisan spending agreement that was largely negotiated behind closed doors, Congress included a policy change with major implications for Medicare payment parity and the potential to set the ...

Daniel Crespin ([email protected]) is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time this article was written, he was an economist at the Office of the ...

Overall, the data show a significant uptick in the volume of IDR cases and corresponding administrative costs.

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 ...

To date, every court that has considered substantive challenges to the Medicare drug price negotiation program has ruled ...

To make the US healthy again with real food, we need to take real action to remove these real chemical hazards from the food supply.

An ID that conflicts with a person’s lived gender can escalate routine encounters and result in service denials in settings ranging from bars and restaurants to airports, hospitals, and other public ...