AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril. Dr. Andy Beck, cofounder and CEO of ...

Misaligned payment and quality incentives, Medicare Advantage practices, and workforce constraints can limit Medicare ...

Medicaid payment error rates under H.R. 1 could rise due to work requirements and other changes that make eligibility ...

While most Medicare home health experiences are positive, gaps remain in beneficiary knowledge, care coordination, and access ...

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...

Across the United States, primary care is widely recognized as essential to improving health outcomes, controlling costs, and ...

Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., is senior scholar for the Expanding Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance programs at the Commonwealth Fund. An economist, Dr. Collins directs the Fund’s ...

Causes of Coverage Gaps More than 60 percent of uninsured people are eligible for coverage with some type of subsidy (Exhibit 2). 10 Some enrollment barriers for eligible individuals are policy-driven ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the potential of these models to strengthen the primary care infrastructure and improve patient care, 4 most primary care practices do not participate in them. A 2022 survey found that just 46 ...

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...