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

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 ...

Beth Waldman, J.D., M.P.H., previously served as a senior managing director at Bailit Health and is a nationally recognized expert on health care policy and program development and implementation, ...

Caryn Marks, M.P.P., is formerly the federal and state health policy officer for The Commonwealth Fund. In this role, Ms. Marks supported the work of the Federal and State Health Policy program. Ms.

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

Over the past 40 years, Kay Johnson has become nationally recognized for her work in maternal and child health policy, as a researcher, advocate, and consultant. Reducing the impact of poverty and ...

AI and digital health technologies will not advance equity on their own. But if designed and implemented with underserved communities and safety-net health systems in mind, they can help make care ...

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...

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 ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...