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

Robyn Stone ( [email protected]) is executive director of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging in Washington, D.C. Mary F. Harahan is an independent consultant and senior ...

Joachim O. Hero ( [email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Alan M. Zaslavsky is a professor of health care policy (statistics) in ...

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mark D. Smith is president and CEO ...

Michael Chernew ([email protected]) is a professor of health care policy at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. Allison Rosen is an assistant professor in the Division of General Medicine at ...

Monica S. Aswani ([email protected]), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Lauren A. Do, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Paul R. Shafer, Boston University. The ...

Ken Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Sanjula Jain ( ...

Sandra Newman ( [email protected]) is a professor of policy studies in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. C. Scott ...

The Child Tax Credit is a near-universal benefit for families with children. Each year, it lifts millions of children out of poverty. Adding income to low- and middle-income families has been shown to ...

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 ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...