Whether retired, nearing retirement, or living with a disability, most people with Medicare coverage live on fixed incomes.

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...

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

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

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical component of assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity ...

Summary: Concerned that it was wasting financial resources that would be better spent on health care, a Wisconsin-based health system embarked on an ambitious plan to reduce its energy use by more ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

Summary: In less than 18 months, Medicare will launch a shared savings program to reward primary care physicians, specialists, and hospitals that form accountable care organizations and collaborate in ...

2018 was a special year for the Commonwealth Fund. The foundation established by Anna Harkness a month before the close of World War I celebrated its centennial — one hundred years of advancing access ...

Many of the problems with the U.S. health system—fragmented care, variable quality, and high and rapidly growing costs—are rooted in fee-for-service payments, in which health care providers are paid ...

Covering nearly 40 percent of all children in the country, including more than 80 percent of children in poverty and more ...

David Bergman, M.D., is an associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research has been focused in the areas of practice guidelines and quality improvement, the redesign of ...