If you or your parents are discussing and debating the merits of aging in place at home or moving into assisted living, it may be that you have a clear choice. Not everyone ages the same way, and you ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

Did you know that nearly half of visits to the emergency room were unnecessary or could have been treated in a different ...

Budget Impact Analysis (BIA) has emerged as an essential tool in health economics, offering a structured approach to appraising the fiscal consequences of introducing new health care interventions. By ...

Rising healthcare costs are a challenge for businesses and individuals. Employers and employees will have to do more legwork to find high-quality, more cost-effective providers, but this strategy is a ...

More frequent routine primary care visits for certain higher-risk commercially insured adults are associated with lower net population-level health care costs. Objective: To evaluate the relationship ...

About 1 in 7 Americans will spend at least $100,000 out of pocket for long-term care. Health insurance generally doesn't cover long-term care services, and Medicare doesn't cover most expenses. Not ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Projections for 2026 indicate the largest single-year ...

Next year, many Americans are set to see huge increases in the cost of their monthly health insurance premiums—although some are likely going to bear a greater weight of the price hikes. Small ...