In traditional Medicare, postacute care is a target of efforts to reduce waste 1 and lower hospital readmission rates, 2 but few studies have examined postacute care in Medicare Advantage (MA).

Amanda C. Chen ([email protected]), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. David C. Grabowski, Harvard University. Two-thirds of US hospices were not given a star rating when the Centers ...

Following the U.S. House of Representatives’ narrow passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in late May 2025, Republicans ...

This month, lenacapavir is expected to receive FDA approval for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It could very well be that ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews MacKenzie Hughes of NORC at the University of Chicago about her recent paper reviewing ...

John K. Iglehart, founding editor of Health Affairs and long-time national correspondent for the New England Journal of ...

Medicaid expansion was a recognition that low-income Americans of all ages need, and deserve, health insurance, and that such ...

States that have set health care cost growth targets and then measured performance against them are generally not meeting the ...

In the March 2019 issue, Michael Gusmano and colleagues caution against using “consumer metaphors” and suggest that usage might “undermine” patient-centered approaches. And Hala Durrah ...

Identification Of High-Veteran MA Plans For each year between 2016 and 2022, we defined high-veteran MA plans as MA plans with VHA enrollees exceeding 20 percent of their total enrollment, which ...

Ruqaiijah Yearby ([email protected]), Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Brietta Clark, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. José F ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment increased by 22.2 million beneficiaries (337.0 percent) from 2006 through 2022, whereas traditional Medicare enrollment declined by 1.0 million (−2.9 percent ...