Findings suggest disparities in access to maternal care providers could worsen as physicians, those currently in practice as ...

Private equity in health care has grown considerably over 10 years, raising concerns about the consequences for cost, quality ...

The outcomes of this fall’s elections will profoundly affect Americans’ ability to access affordable, equitable health care.

As climate change intensifies and New Yorkers face record-breaking heat, the city is taking new measures to protect residents’ health. Landlords will soon have to provide air conditioning to tenants, ...

Aimee Cicchiello joined the Commonwealth Fund in 2019 as a program assistant in the Cost Control and Medicare Programs. She was responsible for a variety of duties ranging from daily administrative ...

A core goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to make comprehensive individual market health insurance more affordable. To accomplish this, the law features insurance premium tax credits (PTCs) as ...

Moving the needle on health care access and health disparities is no easy task. Inequities for people of color are embedded in the U.S. health system, shaping their health care journeys and often ...

Many early discoveries of how poverty and other social risk factors shape the trajectory of disease are the result of researchers leveraging large datasets to study rare events. One was the Dutch ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. The Advisory Committee on Ground ...

In 2021, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans denied 6 percent, or more than 2 million, prior authorization requests — that is, beneficiary requests for coverage of a specific service or treatment. An MA ...