We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by ...

Health Policy Briefs examine complex questions currently being debated in health policy and health services research. The health policy briefs provide a clear, comprehensive, and impartial ...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the immediate shutdown of economic activity in March 2020, overall employment in health care dropped precipitously in all sectors (exhibit 1). As ...

In 2024, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage was $25,572, an increase of $1,604 (7 percent) from 2023. Over the course of the past five years, the average ...

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This article provides an update on progress since last year and lays out new work in 2024 in three areas: safety-net provider participation in models to improve care for more beneficiaries; data ...

ABSTRACT: Employment opportunities are expected to grow much faster for registered nurses (RNs) than for most other occupations. Yet a major shortage of nurses is projected by 2020. A nurse ...

ABSTRACT: New strategies to control U.S. health spending growth are urgently needed. Although provider payment cuts are likely, cutting fee-for-service (FFS) payments will hurt quality and access ...

Using the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health, this paper examines the physical and mental health of children by family structure. Children in step, single-mother, or grandparent-only ...

ABSTRACT: Patient satisfaction is receiving greater attention as a result of the rise in pay-for-performance (P4P) and the public release of data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of ...

Here, we explore opportunities to redesign care models given the unique needs of rural communities and policy and payment reforms to scale home-based primary care access.

Health care spending in the US grew 4.1 percent to reach $4.5 trillion in 2022, which was still a faster rate of growth than the increase of 3.2 percent in 2021 but was much slower than the rate of ...