As our population continues to age, Medicare’s role in the American health care system continues to grow. And Medicare’s ...

The CMS Administrator’s job is one of the most important and challenging jobs in health care. It is my greatest hope that the ...

With multiple stakeholders involved with different interests, the “specialty drug” definition can be a moving target.

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott back to the program to explore Medicare fraud, how prevalent it is, who's most at risk, and what measures are being taken to protect ...

Consistent with the approach taken by other alternative payment models, GUIDE frames the emergency department as a negative ...

More than a dozen years after its enactment, policy and legal disputes related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain. Various opponents have worked to overturn or chip away at the ACA since it ...

National health care spending reached $4.9 trillion in 2023 (or $14,570 per person), increasing 7.5 percent from 2022 ().This rate of growth was faster than in 2021 and 2022, when health care ...

Community health needs assessments identify key health needs and issues, but historically have not included sufficient data ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront major series, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The series features analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been critical to the development of medicines for addressing an array of public health crises. Despite the crucial role of public support for innovating ...