A higher percentage of accountable care organization (ACO) primary care providers was associated with physician leadership, upside financial risk, and financial compensation of physicians tied to ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs will slash the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realign policy ...

This article is part of “Ethics & Health Systems Change,” an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care. Articles ...

BRISTOL, R.I. — At age 82, Roberta Rabinovitz realized she had no place to go. A widow, she had lost both her daughters to cancer, after living with one and then the other, nursing them until their ...

Proposition 35 would seek to permanently impose a tax on health insurance providers known as managed care organizations, which provide or arrange services for a monthly payment. The ballot measure ...

If rising healthcare costs are dragging your small business down, you’re not alone–the cost of medical plans for U.S. employers is set to increase by 7 percent in 2024, according to the International ...