Providence’s WE ACT scorecard helps employees in its 51 hospitals see how their actions affect greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Maanasa Kona, J.D., L.L.M., is an assistant research professor and faculty member at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR). Her current research ...

As states confront their most challenging budgets in decades alongside new responsibilities to implement national health reform, many are looking at opportunities to improve long-term care as a way to ...

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

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

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 ...

Mentor: Caroline Fichtenberg, Ph.D., Managing Director, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN); Research Scientist, Department of Family and ...

Mentor: George H. Pink, Ph.D., Humana Distinguished Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management; Senior Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Deputy Director, ...

The United States spends far more per person on its health care system compared to the rest of the world. Eighteen percent of the nation’s economy is devoted to health care — 50 percent higher than ...

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 ...

With unemployment at its highest level in years, a Commonwealth Fund analysis finds that only a small proportion of laid-off workers—9 percent—purchases health insurance coverage under the COBRA law, ...

Consultant, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Aricca D. Van Citters, M.S., is an independent consultant working on a variety of health care improvement projects. Ms. Van ...