Who should pay for America’s health care — individuals, employers, government or all of us together? If it’s all of us, then ...

A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, ...

Patients receiving care at hospitals owned by private-equity firms experience more bloodstream and surgical site infections and they fall more often, a new study by academics at Harvard University and ...

Veterans could have expanded access to private doctors paid for by the Department of Veterans Affairs under legislation introduced by the GOP chairmen of the congressional committees in charge of VA ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Zirui Song of Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital on his recent paper that explores how private equity acquisition impacts ...

The basic political conflict in America has changed to something very different than the one putting health care to the fore.

A new study shows an increase in the rate of inpatient complications, including infections and falls, though patients were no more likely to die. By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz The rate of ...

The new law prohibits financial firms from having a hand in medical decisions, including determining how many patients clinicians see per hour or what diagnostic tests are appropriate.