Health Affairs

Updated Medicaid-To-Medicare Fee Index: Medicaid Physician Fees Still Lag Behind Medicare Physician Fees

Medicaid plays a critical role in the US health insurance system, but a history of low physician fees has limited physicians’ participation in the program. Recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Health Affairs

National Health Expenditures In 2023: Faster Growth As Insurance Coverage And Utilization Increased

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...
NPR

Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...
NPR

Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors' medical assistant, who asks how she's doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing ...