H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Cheryl Bettigole ([email protected]) is health commissioner at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Patricia C. Henwood is an associate professor of emergency ...

Clinical development programs for new drugs include an array of research conducted both before and after a drug’s initial approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Post-approval clinical ...

The primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...

The assured, consistent availability of pharmaceuticals is a cornerstone for patient wellbeing, effective treatment, and equal access to needed medical care. Pharmaceutical supply disruptions ...

More than thirty million US households are energy insecure, meaning that they are unable to adequately meet household energy needs. Low-income households and those comprising Black, Indigenous, and ...

Given the evident impact on health and the historical inequities of the criminal legal system, it is clearer than ever that carceral health is vital to public health. Yet, we lack basic data about ...

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published online today by Health Affairs, estimates that in 2021 health care spending in the ...

It has been 30 years since the 340B drug pricing program became law. 340B is one of a series of policies that those of us serving in Congress at the time adopted to address the need for a robust ...