Despite still having the highest rate of overdose deaths, the U.S. and several countries have seen a decrease in overdose ...

Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...

M.A., is the grants technology and data analyst for the Commonwealth Fund. She serves as the Fund’s Salesforce administrator and supports the systems, data, and technology that underpin its ...

Concerns over how private equity is affecting health care access, quality, and costs in the United States have exploded in the past few years, reflecting the growing activity of private investors in ...

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. As enrollment in ACA-compliant ...

The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...

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 ...

In Exhibit 2, we measure spending as a percentage of household income rather than dollars (see Appendix 2 for further discussion of this metric). People in the highest quintile of spending as a ...

There are “Choosing Wisely” campaigns to combat the overuse of health care in more than 20 countries. In each country, campaigns partner with national clinician societies to making recommendations ...

Introduction: How Does Medicaid Expansion Affect State Budgets? Is expanding eligibility for Medicaid a good deal for states? This question has loomed over state policymakers for more than a decade.

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 ...

With the 2008 presidential election just weeks away, health care reform is at the top of the nation's domestic policy agenda. The soaring costs of health care, along with a faltering economy and ...