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 ...

What are the key health care policy challenges and opportunities on the horizon for 2025, and how might recent election outcomes shape these discussions? In this conversation, Edward Prewitt, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...