In 2018, Medicare established coverage and reimbursement for its first service using artificial intelligence (AI): computed tomography (CT) fractional flow reserve (FFRCT). FFRCT is used in ...

The main difference between MedPAC and CMS estimates of uncorrected coding intensity is that MedPAC’s estimate accounts for the upward trend in coding intensity.

While utilization is undeniably part of the equation, prices—whether labeled explicitly or embedded in measures of intensity—remain central to understanding why US health spending levels are high and ...

This article, the third in a three-part series, addresses the proposed payment rule’s changes to exchange ...

Rabih Torbay is president and CEO of Project HOPE, in Washington, D.C. A record 108 million people worldwide had been forced to leave their homes by the end of 2022 because of the climate crisis, ...

A world in which the US and World Health Organization are adrift holds repercussions for US national interests and security as well as geopolitical ramifications.

Right now, the United States is conducting a large-scale, uncontrolled policy experiment on the health of transgender and nonbinary (trans) youth. At the same time, federal actions are dismantling the ...

Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers sits down with Georgetown University’s Katie Keith to break down the newly proposed HHS rule that could bring major changes to the ACA beginning in 2027.

Carlos A. Larrauri is a lawyer, clinician, and lived experience researcher, and faculty member in the Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovati ...

There is an alternative to the One Big Beautiful Bill’s approach of kicking millions of people off their health care and ...

Arjee Javellana Restar, PhD, MPH, is a co-founder of The DISCERN Collaborative. Dr. Restar is with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Daniel R. Arnold ([email protected]), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Brent D. Fulton, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California. During the past several decades, physicians ...