To discourage price hikes on brand-name drugs, the IRA requires manufacturers to pay inflation rebates to Medicare if prices ...
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 ...
This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community ...
Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources but too often, it delays treatment patients ...
The Title X Family Planning Program provides equitable and reliable access to contraception nationwide and is a critical ...
Unless Congress acts quickly to extend the enhanced ACA marketplace premium tax credits, nearly 5 million people could lose ...
This scorecard assesses how well Medicare is working for Americans, offering insights about the sources of variation that ...
A million lawfully present immigrants will lose access to marketplace coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare in 2026, as a result ...
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 ...
Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...
This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...