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 ...

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

Climate change is a public health crisis. It poses a present, fundamental threat to the food, air, water, and shelter of Americans. Climate events can induce disruptions to societies and stress ...

Efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into health care have been under way for decades. Recently, rapid evolution in the development of AI technologies has provided new ...

Women’s health in the United States faces a complex array of challenges that demand urgent attention. Some challenges need immediate action to prevent further deaths, such as the dire rates of ...

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 ...

This article is the first in a new Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads.” Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of prominent regulatory ...

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 ...

Advances in the implementation of evidence-based public health measures have been instrumental in extending populations’ lifespan and “healthspan.” However, despite unprecedented medical ...