Federal policy changes that decrease risk pooling will lead to higher insurance premiums for less-healthy populations and greater numbers of uninsured Americans.

If policymakers want to protect access to dental care while managing Medicaid costs, adult dental benefits should not be treated as a go-to option for cuts.

Models that provide hybrid payments to primary care practices without adding financial risk are effective at supporting the ...

There are two common approaches to VBP. The first is shared savings, where clinicians experience financial gains or losses based on their performance on clinical or spending outcomes. The second is ...

The No Surprises Act, signed into law in 2020, went into effect for most consumers enrolled in individual and group health insurance plans on January 1, 2022. The new law addresses surprise bills for ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here.

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 ...

People’s health also varies markedly across and within states, as does access to health services and overall quality of care. 5 Large racial and ethnic health inequities, driven by factors both inside ...

In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...

Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest nation, established a Family Health Strategy in 1994, which uses community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic primary care to families at home, relay information ...

For many people, primary care is their first point of contact with the health system, and decades of evidence shows it is critical for population health, health equity, and the overall efficiency of ...