Low smoking rates should not become a rationale for retreating from tobacco control, particularly when teen smoking rates ...
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Federal policy makers and state Medicaid agencies can make it easier and provide stronger incentives for dual eligible special needs plans and other partners to coordinate long-term services and ...
Two leading health policy experts discuss lessons from the past 20 years and challenges ahead for coverage, costs, and reform ...
Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge program is off to a fast start, but gaps in prior authorization design may exclude beneficiaries who ...
Claims data from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts from 2018 through the first half of 2025 reveal that recent spending ...
In August, Nature reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away grant applications whose main ...
More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA), yet concerns persist about overpayments to MA plans, inadequate plan oversight, and limits on beneficiaries’ access to ...
Medicaid managed care provides a structural framework to fight waste and fraud and reduce the cost to taxpayers.
Value-based care is conventionally classified as an alternative payment model. That classification mistakes the output for ...
Each of the several bipartisan bills being considered by Congress to promote biosimilar competition would have major ...
A look back at two decades of Health Affairs Forefront and the editorial vision that helped shape a leading health policy forum.