The No Surprises Act, signed into law in 2020, went into effect for most consumers enrolled in individual and group health insurance plans on January 1, 2022. The new law addresses surprise bills for ...
Source: Faith Leonard and Gretchen Jacobson, “What Does the Decline in Medicare Part D Plan Availability Mean for Beneficiaries?,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 17, 2025.
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 ...
Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...
Abstract This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, ...
The major drivers of cost growth are the MBS and PBS. The federal government regularly considers opportunities to reduce spending growth in the MBS through its annual budget process. To influence PBS ...
The article is part of a partnership between the Commonwealth Fund and the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, N.Y., to explore innovative approaches to the health care challenges facing rural ...
Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System That Addresses Ongoing and Future Health Crises, Advances Equity, and Earns Trust More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, a ...
The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded. With a better understanding of this patient population, health care providers would be more equipped to develop strategies for ...
Research indicates that an estimated 20 percent of health outcomes are linked to medical care; the remaining 80 percent stem from socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral factors referred to as ...
The Dutch home-care provider Buurtzorg Nederland has attracted widespread interest for its innovative use of self-governing nurse teams. Rather than relying on different types of personnel to provide ...
The U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...
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