An intensive outpatient clinic model significantly reduced health care spending, hospital admissions, and emergency department visits among complex Medicaid patients over a 2-year period. Objective: ...

Connecting primary care providers and commercially insured adults to outpatient behavioral health services via a digital platform improved health outcomes and reduced medical costs. Objective: To ...

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicaid Financing. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the state and ...

CAP’s report outlines a “Patients’ Bill of Rights” designed to take on the key drivers of high health care costs and deliver near-term savings for patients at a time when families are facing record ...

Americans have long lamented the high cost of health insurance, and the situation will soon get worse. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance will go up by another 9 percent in 2026. Public ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Rising health care costs have made affordability a high-profile public and political issue.

Washington keeps arguing over who should pay the bill while ignoring what’s driving costs in the first place — a policy failure decades in the making. Dr. Ashish K. Jha is former dean of Brown ...

One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care has gotten even worse — in ways both obvious and hidden. Yet even as costs surge, the companies and the ...

Yes, Americans are worried about their bills for groceries, housing and utilities. But their biggest pocketbook anxiety arises from the cost of health care, according to a new poll, and their rising ...