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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With scientists warning that 2024 will likely beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, there is growing acknowledgment that climate change—and especially extreme heat—presents a top threat to ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Devices Program was created by the Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. The program is designed to accelerate the development ...

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 ...

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 ...