Consistent with the approach taken by other alternative payment models, GUIDE frames the emergency department as a negative ...

Community health needs assessments identify key health needs and issues, but historically have not included sufficient data ...

According to data from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, total health spending on the privately insured in the United States increased in real terms by nearly 20 percent from 2007 to 2014. 1 ...

Most states have taken a one-size-fits-all (or one-size-fits-most) approach to designing integrated care models for their ...

National health care spending reached $4.9 trillion in 2023 (or $14,570 per person), increasing 7.5 percent from 2022 ().This rate of growth was faster than in 2021 and 2022, when health care ...

More than a dozen years after its enactment, policy and legal disputes related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain. Various opponents have worked to overturn or chip away at the ACA since it ...

Each year Health Affairs publishes retrospective National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...

Post-approval research on existing medicines has improved patient outcomes and addressed unmet medical needs. In oncology, post-approval improvements to drugs reflect indications for additional ...

The 2023 national health care spending study's authors, who are with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of the Actuary, discussed the CMS data with members of the news media. The ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Devices Program was created by the Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. The program is designed to accelerate the development ...