Darius Lakdawalla ([email protected]) is the director of research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dana Goldman is chair and director of health economics, ...

Robyn Stone ( [email protected]) is executive director of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging in Washington, D.C. Mary F. Harahan is an independent consultant and senior ...

H. Stephen Kaye, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Joseph Caldwell ([email protected]), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Using health plan data, we ...

Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

Ronald Evens ( [email protected]) is an adjunct research professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, at the Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, and an ...

Margaret K. Saunders ([email protected]) is deputy editor for global health at Health Affairs, in Bethesda, Maryland. To understand the institutions that lead global health governance today, it is ...

We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...

For purposes of the council’s work, “excess” refers to spending or growth characterized by two factors: It is higher than the norm, whether measured against other countries’ experiences or against ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.

A new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published online today by Health Affairs, estimates that in 2021 health care spending in the ...

On Sunday, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, which includes comprehensive reforms to Medicare drug pricing policy. The House is expected to take up the legislation on Friday ...

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...