The United States is in the midst of a perinatal mental health crisis. Mental health conditions are a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first year postpartum, 1 and despite extensive ...

This month, lenacapavir is expected to receive FDA approval for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It could very well be that ...

States that have set health care cost growth targets and then measured performance against them are generally not meeting the ...

Following the U.S. House of Representatives’ narrow passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in late May 2025, Republicans ...

Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such ...

Expanding the systematic surveillance of attacks on health care infrastructure represents a critical opportunity for ...

John K. Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs and long-time national correspondent for the New England Journal of ...

Futures contracts, particularly due to their prevalence in other industries, have working case studies that highlight the ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews MacKenzie Hughes of NORC at the University of Chicago about her recent paper reviewing ...

Amanda C. Chen ([email protected]), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. David C. Grabowski, Harvard University. Two-thirds of US hospices were not given a star rating when the Centers ...

Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program is the largest pay-for-performance initiative ever implemented to improve care in SNFs. The program ties SNF ...