A year after guidelines were revised to remove the use of race in eGFR, many labs and pathologists were still relying on the ...

Anti-LGBTQI+ public policies overwhelmingly target youth and young adults, disrupting access to educational opportunities, ...

The difficulty that stakeholders face in comparing contracts with different structures could be solved by a standardized ...

This article summarizes the provisions of the final 2026 HHS Notice of Benefit Payment Parameters related to the individual ...

President Trump reinstated an expanded version of the so-called “Mexico City policy,” which prevents organizations that ...

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

While evidence-based decisions are essential, they must be paired with effective public messaging that builds trust and ...

Study Data And Methods We analyzed CAHPS Hospice Survey responses from 292,516 caregivers whose family members or friends died while receiving hospice care from one of 2,497 hospices in the fifty ...

Thomas C. Buchmueller ([email protected]) is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Helen G.

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 ...

Variables Our primary outcomes included Medicaid enrollment and outpatient visits over a six-month postpartum period. We measured postpartum Medicaid coverage by counting the number of months ...

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