A growing number of medical practices are backed by private equity investment, a shift that is impacting physician income and ...
This report evaluates disparities in health and health care across racial and ethnic groups, both within states and between U ...
One of the central challenges of introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to any industry is that its promise and peril are so entwined. The tools that automate routine tasks, such as scheduling ...
The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, which pays for Medicare beneficiaries’ hospital bills and other services, is projected to become insolvent in 2031. Without changes to expected ...
Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. Over the next 10 years, ...
Explore the various approaches to achieving universal health coverage and their implications for access, quality, and cost of care.
Learn about our culture and explore career opportunities at the Commonwealth Fund’s New York City and Washington, D.C., offices. The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 with the broad charge to ...
We believe everyone should be able to get the effective, affordable care they need to maintain and improve their health. Focusing on people who have low incomes and those who are medically underserved ...
Health insurance is essential for getting timely care. In the United States, however, health coverage is fragmented, difficult to navigate, and unaffordable for many. About half of Americans have ...
The renewed debate over Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing in the United States reflects a legitimate frustration: Americans consistently pay more for prescription medicines than do patients in ...
This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...
Why a State Medicare Scorecard? Medicare, established 60 years ago, provides health care coverage for more than 68 million Americans, including nearly all adults age 65 and older as well as 7 million ...