With the model’s new reimbursement scheme, CMS is providing companies with a large pool of new patients and providing ...

In many ways, Act 68, as passed, builds upon the best features of existing reference-based pricing laws. Going forward, state ...

Extreme heat is a complex public health problem driven by interactions at the individual, community, health system, and policy levels. Participatory systems science engages interested parties to ...

The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

Climate change poses a growing threat to health care systems worldwide, exposing weaknesses in infrastructure, workforce, and governance. Climate risk—defined by the interaction of hazard, exposure, ...

Outdoor workers face growing exposure to poor air quality, wildfire smoke, and extreme heat, yet protections remain uneven across states and incomplete federally, and little is known about outdoor ...

Cold-related illnesses (CRIs) are preventable yet often deadly. Using twenty-five years of data from the National Inpatient Sample (1998–2022), we assessed nationwide trends in CRI hospitalizations ...

Court-ordered restorations of federally censored public health websites are being subverted by use of disclaimers that ...

Every policy is a health policy. It may seem obvious, but our laws and regulations are rarely developed with this in mind.

In anticipation of changes to Medicaid coming in 2027 and beyond, states are already exploring ways to tighten eligibility, ...

By promoting transparency, competition, and institutional accountability, the NIH could reward scientific excellence and ...

It's been one year since we launched Health Affairs Insider, our exclusive membership program, and your number one resource where health policy advances in the first year, insiders received important ...