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

It took 10 years of political tension to establish Australia’s universal public health insurance program, known as Medicare. A universal health care bill was initially introduced in Parliament in 1973 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zara is Vice President in the Waxman Strategies Health practice, where her work is focused on helping clients use policy levers in service of advancing equity in health care. Prior to joining the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...