The “it’s the prices” narrative focuses attention on a set of fee-schedule-oriented policies (some of which, as noted above, I support). The concern I have is that this narrative focuses attention ...

With a growing demand for mental health and substance use disorder services, states should think creatively about policies to extend and grow the workforce.

Renee Gross, JD, is the community behavioral health initiatives lead for Kaiser Permanente.

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...

Maryland hospitals have operated under all-payer global budget models since 2014. Within Medicare, evaluations have estimated the resulting cost savings to be $1.6 billion for the period 2014–22. To ...

The FDA should improve device safety by increasing the amount and availability of information about previously marketed ...

The US pays higher drug prices than do peer nations, thereby financing a disproportionate share of global pharmaceutical research and development. President Donald Trump has announced himself willing ...

By addressing the missing link of clinician engagement and providing financial tools and regulatory freedom to innovate, ...

Insurance churn, or moving between different insurance plans or between insurance and uninsurance, is common during the perinatal period. We used survey data from the 2012–17 Pregnancy Risk Assessment ...

Social isolation is a key predictor of mortality in the US and may be heightened in communities affected by violence. Qualitative studies have documented that people living in high-crime neighborhoods ...

Ken Thorpe ( [email protected]) is the Robert W.Woodruff Professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) face increasing pressure to improve care coordination and reduce unnecessary readmissions. One strategy to accomplish this is to share physicians and ...