With multiple stakeholders involved with different interests, the “specialty drug” definition can be a moving target.

Consistent with the approach taken by other alternative payment models, GUIDE frames the emergency department as a negative ...

Community health needs assessments identify key health needs and issues, but historically have not included sufficient data ...

The 2023 national health care spending study's authors, who are with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of the Actuary, discussed the CMS data with members of the news media. The ...

More than a dozen years after its enactment, policy and legal disputes related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain.

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 ...

Given the dangerous consequences of system failure, health care leaders must support programs and systems that focus on resiliency and continuity planning to mitigate these hazards.

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 ...