Medicaid payment error rates under H.R. 1 could rise due to work requirements and other changes that make eligibility ...

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...

Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar for the Expanding Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance programs at the Commonwealth Fund. An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Employer-sponsored health insurance ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...

Primary care is the foundation of a high-performing health care system — it saves lives, reduces chronic disease burden, and is associated with more equitable health outcomes. High-quality primary ...

People’s health also varies markedly across and within states, as does access to health services and overall quality of care. 5 Large racial and ethnic health inequities, driven by factors both inside ...

In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...

Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians For at least the past two decades, the United States and other countries around the world have been bracing for a ...

Causes of Coverage Gaps More than 60 percent of uninsured people are eligible for coverage with some type of subsidy (Exhibit 2). 10 Some enrollment barriers for eligible individuals are policy-driven ...