Staff in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are essential health care workers, yet they can also be a source of COVID-19 transmission. We used detailed staffing data to examine the relationship between a novel measure of staff size (that is, the number of unique employees working daily), conventional measures of staffing quality, and COVID-19 outcomes among SNFs in the United States without…
In a new book review, Senior Editor Margaret Winchester reviews “Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare” by Nora Kenworthy, which argues that crowdfunding…
The stable share of GDP devoted to health care reported in 2023 NHE data masks important underlying trends: Commercial prices, driven by consolidation, are likely…
Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured…
CMS is accepting public comment on the proposed rule until January 27, 2025. The incoming Trump Administration will then need to evaluate the received comments…
Every presidential administration enters office facing threats to global health. But the incoming Trump administration enters office at a particularly dangerous moment. On their own,…
As various reform ideas are proposed, the organized medical and scientific community will need to work with the new leadership at the FDA to promote…
Key policies introduced over the past 45 years have brought new research organizations and investors into the pharmaceutical R&D process, increasing industry’s market power relative…
Nonprofit hospitals and health systems are taking new approaches to investing in their communities, but regulations haven’t kept up.
We discuss the CBO’s estimates of single-payer’s overall effects on national health spending, the implications of the estimates for providers, and the concerns the analysts…
Join Health Affairs December 16 for a virtual event examining how efforts designed to increase access to and quality of care for underserved communities may…
