While some states have updated their essential health benefits benchmark plans, it is ultimately the federal government’s ...

In 2020, in its landmark decision Bostock v. Clayton County , the United States Supreme Court concluded that prejudice ...

Community health centers (CHCs) are providing high-quality, comprehensive primary care to more patients than ever. In 2023, ...

Zoe Barnard, M.A., is a senior advisor at Manatt Health. She has extensive experience working on behavioral health initiatives, with a focus on enhancing medical and behavioral health access through ...

Professor, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Brian Biles is a professor in the Department of Health Policy in the School of Public ...

Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, and New Mexico — have taken steps to modify billing and collection practices and increase ...

Regulations are a fundamental part of health policy. Congress legislates in broad terms and agencies fill in technical details on myriad issues, from how Medicaid eligibility is determined to how ...

With far more people dying of gun-related causes annually in the United States than in other high-income countries, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., officially declared firearm violence a ...

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, ...

Yes, the planet is getting hotter, tropical storms are becoming ever more fierce, and the Arctic is melting — but what’s that got to do with health care? This week on The Dose podcast, host Joel ...

Equitable policymaking also requires an accurate picture of disability at the population level. Current estimates using the American Community Survey (ACS) report that 14 percent of the U.S.