Rising-risk patients receiving Medicaid experience worsening medical and behavioral health conditions and increased acute care (ED and hospital) utilization, while typically being disconnected from ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

The burden of clinical documentation has become an enormous challenge for health care systems, contributing to clinician burnout, job dissatisfaction, and impaired physician–patient interactions that ...

Alison Callahan reported being a consultant for Atropos Health (an on-demand evidence-generation company) and receiving funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the development of ...

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care. Physician shortages are a worsening ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) programs have grown rapidly, and a shift toward more medically complex beneficiaries has implications for health care utilization, costs, and quality in the MA program.

Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a Covid-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had ...

Although the SEC regulatory disclosures proposal is directed at certain publicly traded for-profit entities, the effect will likely impact nonprofit health care organization climate risk assessments ...

Despite some real success in improving patient safety in recent years, achieving the goal of zero harm to patients, families, and the health care workforce is a massive undertaking that requires a ...

Preserving and improving the value of primary care — effective services, access for patients, satisfaction for clinicians — will not be an automatic result of value-based reimbursement, but will ...

The stark inequity in safe, affordable housing due to unfair policies and practices (e.g., redlining) underpins inequities across multiple social determinants of health (SDOH) and health outcomes.

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.