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 ...

Effective state oversight of Medicaid managed care entities requires both a range of contractual levers and staff managing and prioritizing what is most important.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital health technologies are rapidly spreading across health care. These tools have the potential to expand access, improve quality, and reduce disparities, ...

Two of five Americans — 42 percent — know someone who has died of a drug overdose.1 Between 2019 and 2024, nearly half a million Americans died of a drug overdose, including three years of over ...

“[I’m excited about] the potential of AI, because . . . with the downside also comes the upside.” Primary care clinicians spend an increasing amount of time on administrative tasks, meaning less time ...

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 ...

Findings from the 2025 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey Primary care touches almost every aspect of our health. Beyond delivering essential preventive services — such as annual ...

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2025 Affordability Survey and Focus Groups U.S. adults with private insurance are anxious and frustrated about getting and paying for the care they need through ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

Disparities in health and health care between racial and ethnic groups do not exist in the abstract. In every U.S. state, differences in access to care, quality of care, or outcomes of care affect ...

One of the central challenges of introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to any industry is that its promise and peril are so entwined. The tools that automate routine tasks, such as scheduling ...

Uterine fibroids may affect up to 80 percent of women in their lifetime, but they remain under-researched, underfunded, and routinely dismissed. Lupita Nyong’o is working to change that. “I could not ...