States can align capitation withholds with value-based payment state-directed payment arrangements to incentivize managed ...

The April 2024 special themed issue of Health Affairs on perinatal mental health and well-being brought together important ...

Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, offers a nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussions on improving health care and health policy. With our events, we bring ...

For 165 million nonelderly Americans, employers provide health insurance either by purchasing a fully insured plan or through self-insurance. By self-insuring, employers bear the financial risk for ...

Effective enforcement of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule can empower patients, foster competition, and help control ...

Key policies introduced over the past 45 years have brought new research organizations and investors into the pharmaceutical ...

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on the opioid crisis in the United States. The September 2025 issue will feature approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles, including new empirical research ...

Health Affairs has devoted many of its issues to the in-depth exploration of particular policy topics. These thematic issues gather together in one place the top research, important data, and ...

At a time when policy and practice is moving toward coverage of Food Is Medicine (FIM) as benefits in insurance programs, it ...

Generic drug repurposing is an underused but promising tool for finding new, affordable therapies. Creating a pull incentive ...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Richard Hughes IV of Epstein Becker Green and George Washington University about his recent paper that reviewed school-entry vaccine policies on a ...