Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Don Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement about his paper as part of the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities ...

Private equity (PE) acquisitions of health care providers are often framed as a monolithic intervention, but firms’ strategies for generating returns for investors may vary. In a ...

Consolidation of physician practices, largely driven by health systems, has motivated policy efforts to move care toward lower-price, non–health system settings. At the same time, however, private ...

Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...

Victor J. Dzau ([email protected]), National Academy of Medicine, Washington, D.C. J. Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine. In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National ...

The FDA’s framework for AI regulation, while robust for premarket evaluation, would benefit from more specific mechanisms for continuous monitoring of AI performance in diverse real-world settings.

One of the most egregious tweets of all time came from the National Rifle Association in 2018, suggesting that health care professionals should “stay in their lane” and avoid talking about gun ...

On December 18, 2024, as the country was closing down for the holidays, the United States Supreme Court announced that in spring 2025, it would hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood (now renamed Medina ...

Medicaid managed care has become the dominant form of Medicaid delivery in the United States, with 41 states (including Washington, DC), using managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide access ...

Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending ...