Benchmarking U.S. health system performance against other high-income nations, and highlighting best practices from around the world, can help the U.S. face the challenge of mounting pressure of ...

Summary: Public and private financial incentives are aligned as never before to encourage physicians to adopt electronic health records. To aid in the transition, the government has also put billions ...

Freestanding birth centers are community-based facilities — separate from hospitals or medical centers — that care for people with low-risk pregnancies throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum ...

Health care costs continue to be a major concern for Americans. More than one-third (36%) of Americans say high out-of-pocket spending is the most important problem facing the U.S. health care system.

Although nearly half of all U.S. hospitals participate in it, few Americans have heard of the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The program was designed to allow health care providers that serve low-income ...

Dr. Elisabeth Potter was in the middle of operating on a patient with breast cancer when a nurse delivered an urgent message: UnitedHealthcare was on the line. She stepped outside the OR and took the ...

A new Commonwealth Fund report presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands ...

The Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University began with its first cohort of fellows in 2019. It is open to clinicians committed to improving health care access ...

Karen Davis is professor emerita in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She most recently served as director of the Roger C. Lipitz ...