A patient-led process for comparing actual bills to data reported under the hospital price transparency rule would help the ...

This shift could improve care coordination and create opportunities for cost savings through enhanced formulary flexibility ...

Under FDA regulations, suspension is not the end of the process. Unless a license holder voluntarily relinquishes its license ...

Hospitals across the country—particularly those operating emergency departments—face a mounting storm of legal, operational, ...

After four years, federal price transparency rules have revealed a meaningful number of prices. But they’ve revealed ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Matthew Maughan of Brown University about his paper exploring how commercial insurers paid more for procedures at hospital outpatient departments as compared to ...

The medical loss ratio drives higher premiums and higher medical care spending and presents other unintended consequences ...

The broader implementation of step therapy in Medicare Advantage could significantly influence the treatment access and ...

When implemented in state employee health plans, reference-based hospital price caps have the potential to save states money ...

Abraham Verghese ( [email protected]) is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the pod to take a look at the recent government ...

Fitzhugh Mullan ( [email protected]) is the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Candice Chen is an assistant research ...