With multiple stakeholders involved with different interests, the “specialty drug” definition can be a moving target.
The January issue of Health Affairs includes articles that focus on Medicare and its risk-adjustment program. It also includes the annual national health expenditures article by Anne Martin and ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) recently announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a voluntary test program designed to benefit people living with dementia ...
Community health needs assessments (CHNAs), also known as community health assessments, are state, tribal, territorial, or local health assessments that identify key health needs and issues ...
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront major series, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The series features analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...
More than a dozen years after its enactment, policy and legal disputes related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain. Various opponents have worked to overturn or chip away at the ACA since it ...
On September 4, 2024, a 14-year-old took a firearm to his high school in Georgia and opened fire, killing two classmates and two teachers and injuring several others. The minor was swiftly charged ...
Each year Health Affairs publishes retrospective National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been critical to the development of medicines for addressing an array of public health crises. Despite the crucial role of public support for innovating ...
Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 ...
A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—published online today by Health Affairs—estimates that in 2023, health care spending in the ...
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront major series, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The series features analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...