Two New Federal Initiatives Could Help Change the Way We Pay Physicians. Dr. Elliott R. Haut stands outside his Johns Hopkins office in Baltimore. Congress is currently considerin ...

Compared to people in many other high-income nations, Americans are the most likely to have problems paying for their medical care.1 Unlike these countries, the United States doesn’t have universal ...

Essential to any high-performing health system is coordination of primary care with other medical care and social services that patients receive.1 When primary care practices, specialists, hospitals, ...

Over the past five years, a growing number of states have enacted laws to reduce the financial harm from medical debt, which affects an estimated three in 10 U.S. adults.1 For example, 14 states fully ...

Issue: The tax and spending law known as H.R. 1 includes provisions to revise what is counted as a Medicaid payment error and to recoup more federal funds. The new ...

More people die during and after childbirth in the United States than in any other high-income country — but that is not the whole picture. Every year, thousands of people experience serious health ...

The renewed debate over Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing in the United States reflects a legitimate frustration: Americans consistently pay more for prescription medicines than do patients in ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Federal policy changes that decrease ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. As enrollment in ACA-compliant ...

The United States has far higher maternal and infant mortality rates compared to other high-income nations, and stark geographic and racial/ethnic disparities. Timely, high-quality data on the factors ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Yet the goal of simplifying health ...

Despite the critical role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in preventive care and chronic disease management, PCPs lack support for their mental and physical well-being, resulting in pervasive ...