The final rule covers a wide range of topics. This article covers the rule’s changes to shorten the annual open enrollment ...

Rather than waiting for stalled Congressional efforts to enact so-far elusive Medicare policy changes, states could pursue ...

Sustained federal funding from the CDC, NIH, and other federal agencies (e.g., the National Institute of Justice and the ...

It is easy to predict an escalating crisis in staffing our nation’s pediatric departments and children’s hospitals for ...

States that have set health care cost growth targets and then measured performance against them are generally not meeting the ...

Based on our experiences working with Medicare beneficiaries, the information people want or need to make informed decisions ...

Following the U.S. House of Representatives’ narrow passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in late May 2025, Republicans ...

This month, lenacapavir is expected to receive FDA approval for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It could very well be that ...

Major changes to broker compensation policies may need to wait until the outcome of litigation over CMS’s 2024 proposal, but ...

John K. Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs and long-time national correspondent for the New England Journal of ...

HHS Secretary Kennedy announced the removal of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. His ...

Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such ...