In 2020, a group of payers founded CivicaScript, a nonprofit generic drug supplier, with the goal of reducing generic drug prices using an innovative organizational structure called the health care ...

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 ...

Primary care providers are spending more time responding to electronic patient requests and completing other tasks in their digital in-basket that do not require their level of expertise. This ...

The Covid-19 outbreak has created some quick, short-term opportunities for providers and patients to embrace telemedicine. And while the coronavirus-related exposure to and experience with this health ...

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 ...

To address the inefficiencies and high costs associated with the U.S. health care system’s dominant fee-for-service (FFS) model, leaders at Spectrum Health in Michigan — now Corewell Health West — ...

The transparent use of robust data on patient needs and provider performance opens opportunities for employers to take a leading role in improving the quality of health care delivered in the United ...

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.

A targeted Covid-19 vaccination outreach program tailored to the needs of marginalized communities in New York City closed a dramatic disparity in vaccination rates and brought them almost to parity ...