Victor J. Dzau ([email protected]), National Academy of Medicine, Washington, D.C. J. Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine. In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National ...

Shifting from reducing MA capitation by an across-the-board coding intensity adjustment factor to Medicare Advantage ...

Consolidation of physician practices, largely driven by health systems, has motivated policy efforts to move care toward lower-price, non–health system settings. At the same time, however, private ...

Private equity (PE) acquisitions of health care providers are often framed as a monolithic intervention, but firms’ strategies for generating returns for investors may vary. In a ...

In a “rapid response” to the changing administration, authors write: “The current moment in American health care and politics presents new challenges but also new opportunities to advance the goals of ...

When manufacturers and public health officials took steps more than two decades ago to remove thimerosal from most pediatric vaccines, their intention was to bolster public confidence. Instead, it ...

The FDA’s framework for AI regulation, while robust for premarket evaluation, would benefit from more specific mechanisms for continuous monitoring of AI performance in diverse real-world settings.

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Paige Nong of the University of Minnesota about her recent paper that evaluates and explores the current use of artificial intelligence and ...

On December 18, 2024, as the country was closing down for the holidays, the United States Supreme Court announced that in spring 2025, it would hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood (now renamed Medina ...

One of the most egregious tweets of all time came from the National Rifle Association in 2018, suggesting that health care professionals should “stay in their lane” and avoid talking about gun ...

Medicaid managed care has become the dominant form of Medicaid delivery in the United States, with 41 states (including Washington, DC), using managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide access ...