Recently, in JAMA Health Forum, we analyzed whether health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — ...

Payment measures for treating serious mental illness do not always reflect the nuances of care and the needs of patients in ...

Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

While the federal government and the states jointly fund Medicaid, each state runs its own program, subject to federal requirements. The federal government covers between 50 percent and 77 percent of ...

Harkness Fellows on their time in the U.S. and how the experience impacted their careers post-fellowship: ...

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical component of assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity ...

For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the first Trump ...

In July 2004, Hawaii implemented the Hawaii Rx Plus program to provide discounted pharmaceuticals to residents who do not qualify for Medicaid, have an income below 350% of the federal poverty line, ...

The Australian Ministry for Health and Ageing has launched MyHospitals, a new Web site that offers information about the services and performance of 759 public and 153 private hospitals. For the first ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...

Mark W. Friedberg, M.D., M.P.P., is a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and a practicing general internist. His research focuses on performance ...