In 2018, Medicare established coverage and reimbursement for its first service using artificial intelligence (AI): computed tomography (CT) fractional flow reserve (FFRCT). FFRCT is used in ...

While utilization is undeniably part of the equation, prices—whether labeled explicitly or embedded in measures of intensity—remain central to understanding why US health spending levels are high and ...

The main difference between MedPAC and CMS estimates of uncorrected coding intensity is that MedPAC’s estimate accounts for the upward trend in coding intensity.

Recent US drug pricing reforms adopt international prices shaped by quality-adjusted life-year (QALY)-based assessments, despite longstanding federal prohibitions on using QALYs in coverage and ...

A world in which the US and World Health Organization are adrift holds repercussions for US national interests and security as well as geopolitical ramifications.

Carlos A. Larrauri is a lawyer, clinician, and lived experience researcher, and faculty member in the Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovati ...

This article, the third in a three-part series, addresses the proposed payment rule’s changes to exchange ...

Right now, the United States is conducting a large-scale, uncontrolled policy experiment on the health of transgender and nonbinary (trans) youth. At the same time, federal actions are dismantling the ...

Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers sits down with Georgetown University’s Katie Keith to break down the newly proposed HHS rule that could bring major changes to the ACA beginning in 2027.

While not a comprehensive review of the pandemic, this book can provide a useful roadmap for the next serious Administration’s public health leaders who seek to get ahead of impending pandemic threats ...

The authors lay out prominent and pressing threats to public and planet health, though the reader needs to wait until the end to find out what can be done to save our planet and the people who live on ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...