Models that provide hybrid payments to primary care practices without adding financial risk are effective at supporting the ...
As enrollment in ACA-compliant coverage becomes more challenging, insurance products and arrangements that do not meet ACA standards will become more prevalent.
Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...
Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. Over the next 10 years, ...
Primary care physicians (PCPs) deliver accessible, ongoing, comprehensive, and coordinated care across a wide range of patient needs and conditions. 1 This central role, however, comes with ...
In the United States, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher for someone giving birth in Louisiana than in California, and a child born in Mississippi is nearly ...
This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...
Medicaid is an essential source of health coverage for one in five Americans, providing access to care for low-income families, communities of color, people with disabilities, and other underserved ...
The U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...
To comply with MHPAEA, the new rule requires insurers to collect and analyze outcome data, such as rates of out-of-network utilization and denied claims, to assess whether the treatment limits imposed ...
Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...
To help people afford plans sold in the health insurance marketplaces, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also sometimes called Obamacare) provides low- and middle-income individuals with premium tax ...