However, starting last spring, the federal government has reversed course on longstanding vaccine guidance. First, the ...

Strengthening the standards to which Medicaid managed care organizations are held would likely improve access to and delivery ...

Policymakers are exploring reforms to address shortcomings of risk adjustment that inflate Medicare Advantage payments and ...

Unfortunately, federal efforts to protect people from crippling medical debt have stalled. This means that now more than ever ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance ...

Without PRAMS, the U.S. will be less able to direct public resources toward the most effective interventions for meeting ...

Despite the critical role of primary care physicians (PCPs) in preventive care and chronic disease management, PCPs lack support for their mental and physical well-being, resulting in pervasive ...

Congress recently passed unprecedented cuts to federal Medicaid spending that will not only impact beneficiaries but the entire safety-net system that serves a wide array of patients and families. To ...

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 ...

Medicaid is an essential source of health coverage for one in five Americans, providing access to care for low-income families, communities of color, people with disabilities, and other underserved ...

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 ...

In early January, the outgoing Biden administration finalized a new national standard that bans credit rating agencies from including medical debt on most consumer credit reports. The new rule, which ...