Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott back to the program to explore Medicare fraud, how prevalent it is, who's most at risk, and what measures are being taken to protect ...

The CMS Administrator’s job is one of the most important and challenging jobs in health care. It is my greatest hope that the ...

With multiple stakeholders involved with different interests, the “specialty drug” definition can be a moving target.

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 ...

The January issue of Health Affairs includes articles that focus on Medicare and its risk-adjustment program. It also includes the annual national health expenditures article by Anne Martin and ...

Over the past twenty-five years, the average ratio of hospital charges for services (gross revenues) to payments received (net revenues) has grown from 1.1 to 2.6. This reflects a transition from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 ...