The Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is tasked with piloting new models that shift ...

Federal laws protect access to contraception services, but coverage in private health insurance plans varies widely, ...

Medicaid serves as a lifeline for nearly 80 million people nationwide, yet the payments that providers receive for treating Medicaid patients often fall below the cost of delivering care. Because of ...

Costa Rica’s well-trained, highly skilled workforce provides an important lesson for the U.S. on how to professionalize and integrate community health workers.

Fidel Castro’s passing on November 25 is a vivid reminder of the outsized role that he and Cuba have played in the history and imagination of the United States. Over nearly 60 years, U.S. governments ...

Erin Prendergast, M.P.H., is deputy director of federal policy at the National Association of Community Health Centers. She has a background in health care quality improvement, federal policy, and ...

Community health centers (CHCs) serve as a lifeline for millions seeking primary and behavioral health care. In 2023, 32.5 million patients relied on CHCs, many receiving mental health and substance ...

Jacob Rains, M.P.H., is a manager with Manatt Health. He monitors and analyzes a broad range of health policy and business issues, market developments. and emergent health care trends to inform ...

Emily Polk, M.P.H., is a senior manager with Manatt Health. She advises state Medicaid agencies, hospital associations, and health care providers on Medicaid policy and program design, with a focus on ...

Katie Keith, J.D., M.P.H., is an associate research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms and director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at Georgetown ...

This international survey of primary care physicians looks at changes in workload and quality of care delivered, physical and mental stress, and career plans.