On June 18th, a 6 to 3 majority of the US Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors did not ...

CMS should provide stable year-over-year funding to Medicare Advantage for supplemental benefits and incentivize MA plans to ...

Nonprofit hospitals may provide community benefits 1 or otherwise contribute to society in several ways. Scholars have published a steady stream of research on an array of important outcomes ...

Millions of people across the South—particularly in rural or low-income areas—have limited or no access to preventive oral ...

The final rule covers a wide range of topics. This article covers the rule’s changes to shorten the annual open enrollment ...

Rather than waiting for stalled Congressional efforts to enact so-far elusive Medicare policy changes, states could pursue ...

Paid family leave policies have the potential to reduce health disparities, yet access to paid leave remains limited and unevenly distributed in the United States. Using California administrative c ...

The Affordable Care Act was designed to provide financial protection to Americans in their use of the health care system. This required addressing two intertwined problems: cost barriers to accessi ...

Perinatal mental illness is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in the United States. Although better acute care services for mental health conditions are desper ...

For high-price drugs, Medicare Part D beneficiaries who do not receive a low-income subsidy must pay a percentage of the drug’s price for each medication fill. Without that subsidy, which lowers ...

When hospital beds are scarce, patients “board” in the emergency department until an inpatient bed becomes available. Using national data on 46.2 million hospitalizations, 2017–24, we ...

Sustained federal funding from the CDC, NIH, and other federal agencies (e.g., the National Institute of Justice and the ...