Behavioral health integration is a proven model that embeds mental health and SUD services with primary care. In 2023, CHCs ...

Addressing maternal health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities will require identifying data gaps ...

A new strategy takes a step toward creating systems that understand and address family caregivers’ needs, building on ...

The budget bill would create millions of newly uninsured, increase consumers’ premiums, and impose new barriers on Americans’ ...

We used the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ T-MSIS data to examine enrollment patterns for low-income and child-welfare children. In 2020, of the 35.7 million children enrolled based on ...

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 ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

A high rate of avoidable deaths — deaths before age 75 from conditions that can be prevented or treated — often indicate shortcomings in public health and care delivery systems. 7 In the U.S., the ...

Dr. Jason Bronner, a primary care physician, meets with patient Patricia Alexander at St. Luke’s Health System’s internal medicine clinic in Boise, Idaho. To encourage participation by primary care ...

Introduction For nearly two decades, the Commonwealth Fund has tracked health and health care in each state, seeking both to understand how the policy choices we make affect people’s health outcomes ...

Pharmacist Emad Wahba hands Sheila Vance, 66, a COVID-19 home test that is fully covered by Medicare at a CVS pharmacy in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2022. About half ...

Abstract Issue: Discrimination against patients in health care settings on the basis of race, ethnicity, or language can negatively impact quality of care and health outcomes. Workers on the front ...