Even as the FTC's ban faces setbacks, the broader conversation and heightened scrutiny surrounding noncompetes are likely to ...

It’s time to roll back policies that protect incumbent providers at the expense of patients. The three examples we ...

Improving federal data collection standards on race and ethnicity will be far from sufficient for equipping the health sector ...

Since its bipartisan enactment in late December 2020, the No Surprises Act (NSA) has been championed as a significant victory for health care reform aimed at protecting consumers from the most ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

One Year in the Future of Medicine seeks to depict a year in the future of medicine, it should be lauded for that goal. However, the book’s silence about several issues in the way of getting to that ...

For nearly four decades, gay men have been excluded from the blood donation process. These stark restrictions, as well as discriminatory and humiliating experiences with health care providers more ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has placed growing emphasis on social drivers of health, but little is known about how accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to meet the needs of ...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dongzhe Hong of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University on his recent paper that explores how patient and prescriber factors play into ...

Sanjay Basu ([email protected]), Waymark, San Francisco, California. Atheendar S. Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dean ...

Voting is now recognized as a public health priority. In June 2023, voter participation was named as a ‘core objective’ in the nation's health goals, Healthy People 2030. Core objectives ...