In response to the challenges, some insurers have begun expanding care coordination, cost transparency tools and nurse-led support programs which are aimed at helping patients navigate care more ...

The objectives of this study were to provide an overview of the emergency care system in the U.S., explore its strengths, limitations, and future challenges, describe a desired vision of the emergency ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

The US health-care system is reaching its breaking point. Individuals, families, employees, employers, and public and private health insurance funders are all spending more for health care every year, ...

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a cross-government request for ...

Over the past two decades, US policy makers have been concerned about steady growth in health care spending. This spending growth has contributed to federal deficits and the national debt while also ...

Two moments in 2025 revealed how vulnerable the U.S. health care system has become. The first was quiet but consequential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised parts of its ...

Universal health care (UHC) is a system under which "all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship," said the ...

Any hospital or health system that was on the fence about telehealth services prior to the pandemic has now firmly fallen on the side of strategic adoption. A few trends are driving that interest in ...

American health care is getting more expensive, but Americans aren’t getting healthier. We spend $4.8 trillion annually on health care — more than any other country — only to have some of the worst ...

A new report by the Commonwealth Fund has revealed the states with the best and worst health care systems, based on 50 different measures. Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were at ...