Extreme heat events have been demonstrated to increase emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality, but evidence of their impacts on the associated costs and on outpatient use is ...

In anticipation of changes to Medicaid coming in 2027 and beyond, states are already exploring ways to tighten eligibility, ...

Expanding the GUIDE model’s eligibility language to include adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities offers a ...

The litigation against health equity measures has expanded and accelerated. Now the federal government has thrown its weight behind interest groups that have struggled to establish standing, ...

Robin Feldman ([email protected]), University of California Hastings Law, San Francisco, California. Recent studies have examined strategic behaviors in the pharmaceutical industry that extend patent ...

The fringe banking industry, including payday lenders and check cashers, was nearly nonexistent three decades ago. Today it generates tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. The industry’s ...

The capital flowing into rural communities through the Rural Health Transformation Program can unlock previously unattainable ...

HealthAffairs.org has a fresh look. It’s faster, cleaner, and more mobile friendly. Its improved search makes discovering and ...

On Friday, October 17, the White House named Ron Klain the new Ebola czar. This move followed a storm of criticism in the media, on Capitol Hill, and elsewhere. The criticism focused on the multiple ...

Despite its scale, steatotic liver disease remains largely absent from global and US noncommunicable disease strategies.

A growing body of evidence suggests that facility fee reform could provide meaningful out-of-pocket relief to consumers ...

Caitlin Carroll ([email protected]), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jessica Y. Chang, Health Care Cost Institute, Washington, D.C. Rural hospitals in the US have closed at a rapid ...