This brief presents findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey to describe the state of Americans’ ...

Although nearly half of all U.S. hospitals participate in it, few Americans have heard of the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The ...

This issue is particularly acute for Medicare beneficiaries — 14 percent said they skipped filling a prescription due to cost ...

Benchmarking U.S. health system performance against other high-income nations, and highlighting best practices from around the world, can help the U.S. face the challenge of mounting pressure of ...

Summary: Public and private financial incentives are aligned as never before to encourage physicians to adopt electronic health records. To aid in the transition, the government has also put billions ...

Freestanding birth centers are community-based facilities — separate from hospitals or medical centers — that care for people with low-risk pregnancies throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum ...

Dr. Elisabeth Potter was in the middle of operating on a patient with breast cancer when a nurse delivered an urgent message: UnitedHealthcare was on the line. She stepped outside the OR and took the ...

Karen Davis is professor emerita in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She most recently served as director of the Roger C. Lipitz ...

The Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University began with its first cohort of fellows in 2019. It is open to clinicians committed to improving health care access ...

Read full profiles of international health systems describing the role of government, how systems are organized and financed, who and what is covered, and what is being done to ensure quality of care, ...