Policy

Commonwealth Fund analyzes health care systems of wealthy nations and finds U.S. lacking in all but care process.

Private equity investment, burnout crop up in Physicians Foundation 2024 survey results.

The pharmaceutical industry has increasingly taken aim at the program for growing costs, but is that accurate? American Hospital Association analysts offer this perspective.

Study examines physician telehealth use and finds differences by physician sex, age and specialty.

Countering apathy with encouragement, and a message for primary care and all physicians from the founder of the advocacy group Vot-ER.

Physician founder of Vot-ER discusses health outcomes and reactions when physicians promote voter registration in health care settings.

Witnesses describe dire hospital conditions created by ‘health care terrorists’ as lawmakers rip private equity investors for massive bankruptcy case.

Physician founder of Vot-ER recalls the beginning of a national movement to advance voter registration in health care settings.

Presidential contenders offer views on health care during televised debate.

When possible, patients prefer to recover in their own beds instead of hospital beds, according to a new survey. National health care policy needs to catch up to patient need.

The past has lots of indicators, but the candidates were mum in the summer about specific initiatives on major programs.

Expect patient care to suffer when physicians face a 2.8% decrease in reimbursement in 2025, even as regulators acknowledge practice costs are going up.

Is an interest rate cut coming? Analysts consider jobless rate, other economic indicators.

By improving health outcomes and avoiding costly obesity-related complications, GLP-1s can significantly reduce the overall cost of health care.

How do we offer the care our nation’s patients deserve?

Two solutions for the primary care shortage from unlikely sources could boost access

The proposed meager Medicare reimbursement increase for dialysis providers marks the fifth year in a row that the agency has failed to capture actual increases in labor and treatment costs.

Undermining access to biologics is not the answer.

New measure will be a monumental step forward away from preventable medical harm and toward better patient care.

AAPA says scope creep campaign misleads patients and hurts teamwork in health care.

California physician-legislator supports bill to create training opportunities in region with notably poor health care access and health outcomes.

Understanding the process of campaigning and why more doctors need to get involved in politics.

It’s not who you think - report highlights shifts in U.S. labor force demographics

In theory, patients should benefit from drug price discounts negotiated between drug companies and insurers. In reality, they don’t, and a potential solution is stalled in Congress.

Blaming private equity for the woes of American health care is all the rage in our current era.

Physicians and their practices must evolve to address the challenges posed by a rapidly changing health care environment.

Doctors, if you work with a rural hospital, here is a gameplan to embrace change or risk becoming unsustainable.

Savings in the future on 10 prescription drugs for taxpayers and Medicare patients.

Beneficiaries are projected to save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket spending next year.

These major cities are being impacted the least by inflation.