To discourage price hikes on brand-name drugs, the IRA requires manufacturers to pay inflation rebates to Medicare if prices ...

Plans extensively market their supplemental benefits; one of four MA enrollees report choosing their plans over traditional Medicare because of them. To learn more, the Commonwealth Fund and SSRS ...

This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community ...

The Title X Family Planning Program provides equitable and reliable access to contraception nationwide and is a critical ...

Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources but too often, it delays treatment patients ...

In 2024, Texas increased supplemental payments for rural hospitals from $500 to $1,500 per birth, bringing the total compensation per Medicaid birth to $8,100. (For comparison, employer-sponsored ...

Millions of Americans will make critical decisions about their health insurance as the open enrollment period begins in November. This year, the stakes are especially high: enhanced premium tax ...

Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Hannah Neprash, Ph.D., is an associate professor of health policy and management at the University ...

Emily L. Hague, Ph.D., is a health services researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she focuses on describing and evaluating care delivery and payment innovations. Her work has included ...

The “individual market” is a vital source of coverage for Americans who cannot get health insurance through their employer and do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, includi ...

Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...

The No Surprises Act, signed into law in 2020, went into effect for most consumers enrolled in individual and group health insurance plans on January 1, 2022. The new law addresses surprise bills for ...