The Orphan Drug Act has catalyzed innovation in rare disease treatments, but the law’s shortcomings — particularly around ...

H.R. 1, the tax and spending law passed in 2025, requires states to implement work requirements for expanded Medicaid ...

This survey brief examines factors contributing to burnout among primary care physicians in 10 countries and strategies to ...

While premiums for individual market coverage typically increase each year, not since the early days of the first Trump administration have costs been poised to rise by as much as they will in 2026.

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

To comply with MHPAEA, the new rule requires insurers to collect and analyze outcome data, such as rates of out-of-network utilization and denied claims, to assess whether the treatment limits imposed ...

In early January, the outgoing Biden administration finalized a new national standard that bans credit rating agencies from including medical debt on most consumer credit reports. The new rule, which ...

Many people who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are eligible for tax credits that lower their monthly premiums. In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic still raged, ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

Maxine Fuqua, 33 (right), of Wilmar, Ark., is examined by Leia O’Fallon, APRN, with the help of Fuqua’s daughter Kael, 8, during a routine checkup at 29 weeks pregnant at Mainline Health Monticello ...

In 2021, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans denied 6 percent, or more than 2 million, prior authorization requests — that is, beneficiary requests for coverage of a specific service or treatment. An MA ...

Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...