A common thread in efforts to improve the system is to become more patient-centered, as emphasized in the landmark Institute of Medicine Report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” nearly 25 years ago. To ...

With a national rise in mental health needs, health systems are turning to a new type of care facility to take pressure off hospital emergency departments — behavioral health urgent cares. The U.S.

AI is revolutionizing healthcare by improving diagnostics, reducing clinician workload, and enhancing care access, ...

A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his ...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks during a trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

A biosimilar is a biologic medication that is highly similar to an existing FDA-approved biologic, known as a reference product, with no clinically meaningful differences. Biosimilars are derived from ...

The Beebe Healthcare hospital in Sussex County, Delaware. A feasibility study says no single health care system in the county — Beebe Healthcare, Bayhealth or TidalHealth — has enough resources on its ...

Two large hospital systems serving central Pennsylvania have indicated they will no longer offer gender-affirming care to children and teens following President Donald Trump’s January executive order ...