The share of fee-for-service Medicare enrollees choosing a Medicare Supplement plan rose to 41.4% in 2022, increasing for the fifth consecutive year, according to findings from a new AHIP report. The ...

A new analysis of Medicare data shows mental health specialists who embraced telehealth did not see substantially more rural ...

A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Biden administration to beef up the amount of data it collects from private Medicare plans in order to combat overpayments and improper care denials. Sen.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads.” Articles in this topic will offer timely analysis of regulatory, legislative, and judicial ...

Real world data (RWD), which is data from actual patient treatments, provides valuable information on safety and effectiveness of innovative new health technologies, often at significantly lower cost ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage, featuring analysis and discussion from all stakeholder perspectives with the goal of ...