The fringe banking industry, including payday lenders and check cashers, was nearly nonexistent three decades ago. Today it generates tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. The industry’s ...

Extreme heat events have been demonstrated to increase emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality, but evidence of their impacts on the associated costs and on outpatient use is ...

In anticipation of changes to Medicaid coming in 2027 and beyond, states are already exploring ways to tighten eligibility, ...

Expanding the GUIDE model’s eligibility language to include adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities offers a ...

The litigation against health equity measures has expanded and accelerated. Now the federal government has thrown its weight behind interest groups that have struggled to establish standing, ...

The capital flowing into rural communities through the Rural Health Transformation Program can unlock previously unattainable ...

On Friday, October 17, the White House named Ron Klain the new Ebola czar. This move followed a storm of criticism in the media, on Capitol Hill, and elsewhere. The criticism focused on the multiple ...

Despite its scale, steatotic liver disease remains largely absent from global and US noncommunicable disease strategies.

HealthAffairs.org has a fresh look. It’s faster, cleaner, and more mobile friendly. Its improved search makes discovering and ...

Administrative spending accounts for 15–30 percent of health care spending. The US spends more on health care administration than comparable countries. At least half of administrative spending is ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks certain authorities and is persistently underresourced to fulfill its mission of protecting the public by ensuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary ...

Improving housing quality may improve residents’ health, but identifying buildings in poor repair is challenging. We developed a method to improve health-related building inspection targeting. Linking ...