If the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits expire, increased premium costs, marketplace instability, and the loss of coverage ...

Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly drugs.

Although most Medicare Advantage enrollees are in plans with supplemental benefits, survey findings show many of these ...

2018 was a special year for the Commonwealth Fund. The foundation established by Anna Harkness a month before the close of World War I celebrated its centennial — one hundred years of advancing access ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

Consultant, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Aricca D. Van Citters, M.S., is an independent consultant working on a variety of health care improvement projects. Ms. Van ...

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 ...

Kay Johnson has been a leader in child health policy for 25 years. Since 1984, she has been active in Medicaid and children's health policy at the federal level and served as an advisor to 40 state ...

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

Engaging parents in a discussion about psychological and social factors provides the clinician with the opportunity to identify and provide feedback on specific parenting or family strengths. The ...

The Australian Ministry for Health and Ageing has launched MyHospitals, a new Web site that offers information about the services and performance of 759 public and 153 private hospitals. For the first ...