The American health care system suffers from many misalignments of incentives, but one is particularly irksome: When individual patients make prudent decisions about their care, choosing reasonable ...

An intensive outpatient clinic model significantly reduced health care spending, hospital admissions, and emergency department visits among complex Medicaid patients over a 2-year period. Objective: ...

Connecting primary care providers and commercially insured adults to outpatient behavioral health services via a digital platform improved health outcomes and reduced medical costs. Objective: To ...

Healthcare costs in America are rising at unsustainable levels. The past two years brought the highest back-to-back cost hikes in a decade — and the trend shows no signs of slowing down as employers ...

Extreme heat events have been demonstrated to increase emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality, but evidence of their impacts on the associated costs and on outpatient use is ...

Americans have long lamented the high cost of health insurance, and the situation will soon get worse. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance will go up by another 9 percent in 2026. Public ...

Total healthcare costs were significantly lower among adults with diabetes who used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems compared to those who did not use CGM, according to a December study ...

Health plan leaders see these numbers. What they don’t see is the thread that connects them. These aren’t just high-volume ...

Americans have long lamented the high cost of health insurance, and the situation will soon get worse. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance will go up by another 9 percent in 2026. Public ...

When Noah Hulsman, who owns a skate shop in Louisville, Kentucky, learned he no longer qualified for federal subsidies to help him pay for his "gold" Affordable Care Act health plan, the 37-year-old ...

Health insurance has always been expensive. What’s changed is not just the scale of these costs, but their unpredictability and concentration. Specialty drugs have become a significant driver of ...