Publications

Financial toxicity (FT), encompassing objective and subjective impacts of cancer care costs, is linked to poorer quality of life, reduced treatment adherence, and higher mortality. While patient-level risk factors have been examined, a system-level perspective incorporating socioeconomic context is needed to understand global variation in FT.

Two Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation directors, past and present, compare notes on how the center maintains its mission of making care more affordable and accountable through administration changes.

NIHCM’s new Policy Insights initiative examines the drivers of rising US health care costs and the policy strategies to improve affordability by commissioning leading health policy scholars to produce original analyses and convening expert-level roundtables. In the first of the series, Melinda Buntin, PhD, provides an original analysis on rising health care costs and potential solutions.

The global health workforce is approaching a breaking point, driven by administrative overload, inefficient workflows, burnout, and accelerating retirements, with a projected global shortfall of 11 million health professionals by 2030.

We investigate primary care provider attitudes (n=224) towards adding DTxs to treatment plans for adult patients with diabetes or depression...

The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) tools is now common in the advancement of health care services and clinical risk estimation.

Medicaid covers Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for low-income older adults, who make up a growing segment of the US population

In this study, we designed randomized experiments to test whether reported trust in a PCP is influenced by exposure to unique vignettes about physician-patient encounters.

Nurses are concerned that artificial intelligence (AI) could undermine the holistic, intuitive, and experience-based clinical judgment that is foundational to safe patient care.

To examine whether Medicare Advantage (MA) plans' provision of expanded supplemental benefits reduces enrollees' acute care utilization.