More than half of Americans have health insurance plans through their employers, which often fail to include a sufficient ...

Uninsured Georgians says they are encountering administrative barriers to enrolling in Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement ...

First offered in 1925 and envisioned as a “reverse Rhodes Scholarship,” the Harkness Fellowships are the Commonwealth Fund’s longest-running program. Nearly 100 years later, they remain a flagship of ...

In the United States, the maternal mortality crisis has disproportionately affected people of color, including Black and ...

The Medicare complaints process allows beneficiaries to file complaints or grievances about the quality of the services they ...

Issue: Few interventions have effectively improved patient safety on a large scale and in varied settings. While individual parts of the health care system have benefited from discrete improvements, ...

Summary: When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, to help them make treatment choices, they are more knowledgeable and satisfied with their care ...

Summary: In less than 18 months, Medicare will launch a shared savings program to reward primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals that form accountable care organizations and collaborate in ...

The next time an employee of Glatfelter paper company in Chillicothe, Ohio, needs to go to the doctor for a 30-minute visit to make sure she's responding well to a new medication, she can expect to be ...

Summary: Concerned that it was wasting financial resources that would be better spent on health care, a Wisconsin-based health system embarked on an ambitious plan to reduce its energy use by more ...

Tanya Alteras, M.P.P., is a senior consultant at Health Management Associates. Formerly a senior policy analyst at ESRI, she has over six years of experience examining issues related to health care ...

The outcome of the 2024 election will shape Medicaid policies, affecting access to care for millions of low-income adults, children, and people with disabilities.