The health insurance Marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are a growing source of coverage. More than twenty-one million people enrolled during the 2024 open enrollment period, up ...

Despite a presidential declaration of a crisis and continued bipartisan support for increased funding and research, maternal mortality persists as a devastating issue, claiming the lives of ...

Janice Jhang ([email protected]), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Troyen A. Brennan, Harvard University. Biosimilars present a key opportunity to contain the growing cost of ...

Current policies aimed at improving the quality of health care in the United States have fallen short. However, a novel approach to achieving quality outcomes tested by the Center for Medicare and ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care ...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jared Walker of Dollar For about his recent paper that explores the widely varying criteria amongst US nonprofit hospitals to determine who ...

The price of prescription drugs has been a major talking point in this year’s elections. Having the government negotiate drug prices was a major change in federal policy—occasioned by the ...

In health care’s ongoing shift toward value-based payment and care delivery models, one of the most expansive innovations yet is the hospital global budget model. By aligning economic incentives ...

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) often bill themselves as legitimate reproductive health care or medical clinics, but they are actually nonmedical centers, operated by anti-abortion advocates, that ...

In clinical research, participants in trials may or may not be considered “vulnerable.” Historically, vulnerable research participants have included children, incarcerated individuals ...

The recent election results will usher in sweeping changes for major federal health care policies, programs, and the courts. Donald Trump’s second term in office will diverge substantially from ...