Health care spending in 2019 reached $3.8 trillion, 17.7 percent of the gross domestic product in the United States. Likewise, employer-sponsored health insurance premiums — which cover about 157 ...

Cardinal Innovations Healthcare is the largest specialty health plan in the country, insuring more than 850,000 North Carolinians with complex needs. Using a community-based model of care management, ...

Medicaid managed care has not been the panacea for spending, care quality, and access that policy makers expected, but reforms could change that. Evidence indicates a need for further reform in ...

In response to rising health, economic, and equity burdens of suboptimal nutrition, health care stakeholders are increasingly integrating nutritional supports into health care delivery and financing.

The managed care rule’s importance can hardly be overstated. As of 2022, three-quarters of states relied on managed care as a basic element of their Medicaid state plan administration. Over 80 percent ...