Ph.D., is a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, S.C. He serves as the director of the South Carolina Center for Rural and ...

The Relative Value Scale Update Committee’s role in determining reimbursement rates has come under scrutiny for its ...

Registration lead Arilu Pineda, left, at her workstation at Sarasota Memorial Hospital on July 28, 2022, in Sarasota, Fla.

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 ...

Medical debt, or personal debt incurred from unpaid medical bills, is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. 1 Almost a third of working age U.S. adults are currently in debt because of ...

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 ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here.

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 ...

The engine of health care innovation runs on data. But too often, data can’t tell the full story. On this week’s episode of The Dose, Dr. Sema Sgaier joins host Joel Bervell to talk about the future ...

When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...

Congressional Republicans are considering making major funding cuts to Medicaid, the primary payer in the United States for long-term services and supports (LTSS). LTSS include services delivered in ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...