The medical loss ratio drives higher premiums and higher medical care spending and presents other unintended consequences ...

Randolph W. Pate is founder of Randolph Pate Advisors LLC, a Washington, DC-area consultancy providing strategic guidance to insurers, providers, technology comp ...

By learning the lessons of previous successes, increasing access to treatment, supporting those in recovery, and ...

Among the flurry of executive orders (EOs) issued by President Trump as his first hundred days in office drew to a close are two taking aim at the high cost of prescription drugs. For many ideas in ...

G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, is a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he serves as a founding co-di ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Kathleen Haddad back to the pod to take a look at the recent government ...

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Troyen A. Brennan of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and former CMO at CVS ...

When implemented in state employee health plans, reference-based hospital price caps have the potential to save states money ...

The final guidance for the 2028 cycle of the Medicare drug price negotiation reflects CMS’s continued effort to balance ...

Benjamin D. Ukert ([email protected]), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, and Elevance Health, Indianapolis, Indiana. Theodoros V. Giannouchos, University ...