Hospice care accounts for an increasing share of Medicare spending, paid by Medicare through a daily capitated rate that is not risk-adjusted. In recent years, for-profit entities, notably private ...

Capitation incentivizes Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to contract with providers willing to accept lower prices, and providers participating in MA are subject to managed care administrative burdens.

Many environmental sustainability strategies are available to hospitals and health systems, but their full impacts are not well understood. We modeled the financial, health, and environmental impacts ...

The November issue of Health Affairs features articles on hospitals, climate and health, and physician payment. The issue also includes articles in our ongoing series Age-Friendly Health (supported b ...

Together, these trends show fewer opioid prescriptions dispensed, less opioid dosage exposure, fewer patients exposed to prescription opioids, and more patients receiving medications used for ...