The Medicare open enrollment period — a time when beneficiaries can change their coverage — began October 15 and runs through ...

This brief presents findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey to describe the state of Americans’ ...

Covering nearly 40 percent of all children in the country, including more than 80 percent of children in poverty and more ...

Whether retired, nearing retirement, or living with a disability, most people with Medicare coverage live on fixed incomes.

Summary: Prices for health care services vary significantly among providers, even for common procedures, and it's often difficult for patients to determine their out-of-pocket costs before receiving ...

Am I eligible to apply? Harkness Fellowships are designed for midcareer professionals who are committed to advancing health policy and practice in the Commonwealth Fund’s principal areas of interest: ...

Pediatrician and Child Health Advocate, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Rhea Boyd, MD is a pediatrician and child health advocate in the Bay Area. She works ...

Summary: A decade ago new competencies for graduate medical education called for residents to learn to how work within larger health care systems and to measure and establish processes to continually ...

In establishing the Commission on a High Performance Health System in 2005, The Commonwealth Fund’s Board of Directors recognized the need for national leadership to revamp, revitalize, and retool the ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical component of assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity ...