H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

On May 27 Health Affairs held a special lunch and learn virtual event featuring a conversation between Clifford Ko and Katherine Ornstein on how the new Age-Friendly Hospital Measure aims to improve ...

John Creighton Campbell ( [email protected]) is emeritus professor of political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Naoki Ikegami is professor and chair of the Department of Health ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Anti-LGBTQI+ public policies overwhelmingly target youth and young adults, disrupting access to educational opportunities, social support, and health care services. Pro-LGBTQI+ policies such as ...

In October 2021, a Pennsylvania judge denied the property tax exemption for three hospitals owned by a Pennsylvania hospital system, claiming that operations at the hospitals in question had become ...

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 primary data sources for NP graduation numbers are from the annual Enrollment and Graduation In Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, reported by the American Association of Colleges of ...

So rare is bipartisan regulatory legislation in Congress, especially in health care, that when it occurs one must presume it is in response to prohibitive costs to society or a threat to patient ...

A new bargaining chip appeared on the table as hospital employees in Iowa negotiated a new contract with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics—protection from patient attacks. Iowa’s increase ...

More than thirty million US households are energy insecure, meaning that they are unable to adequately meet household energy needs. Low-income households and those comprising Black, Indigenous, and ...

A Unique Device Identifier (UDI) is an individualized alphanumeric signature associated with a single medical device. Since 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated the placement of ...