health-policy

Why does the United States spend so much more on healthcare than other wealthy countries? Harvard professor John McDonough traces part of the answer to decades of policy change, consolidation and growing commercial influence. #health, #healthinsurance, #healthcare, #history, #faculty, #ushealthcare, #healthcarecosts, #healthcarereform, #johnmcdonough, #healthpolicy, #hospitalconsolidation, #priva…

WHO Member States have advanced negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex, a central component of the WHO Pandemic Agreement, while agreeing that continued discussions are needed to finalize a framework that supports a faster, more effective and equitable response to future pandemics.

The American College of Radiology(r) (ACR(r)) today praised the inclusion of the Radiology Outpatient Ordering Transmission (ROOT) Act in the Patients First Act, bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. House to update Medicare healthcare provider payments.

What led us to question a common assumption about organized sport and stress relief in children and adolescents — and why the answer matters for equitable public health policy.

ObjectiveChina released two batches of the Rare Disease Catalog in 2018 and 2023, respectively, listing a total of 207 diseases. This study aims to analyze the accessibility of medications for diseases included in the catalog and assess the impact of drug regulatory reforms on the supply of medications for rare diseases.MethodsThis study compiled five categories of information on drugs for 207 ra…

A new Health Affairs Forefront article by UW Department of Surgery’s Dr. Christopher Childers, assistant professor in the Division of General Surgery, examines a central question shaping Medicare policy: what problem the physician fee schedule is actually designed to solve. As policymakers pursue updates intended to improve efficiency and control costs, Dr. Childers and his colleagues… The post M…

A new study led by researchers from Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) finds that safer nurse staffing levels in Pennsylvania hospitals could prevent thousands of deaths each year while improving care and providing savings that could finance better staffing.

Six dollars and fifty cents. That is, give or take, the largest fine the federal government has ever levied on a Medicare Advantage insurer per patient enrolled. It happened once, in 2019. Most years the figure stays below three dollars. Meanwhile the same insurers receive, on average, somewhere in the neighbourhood of $15,000 per enrollee annually from the federal government. Do the arithmetic a…

A new study from health policy researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health suggests that while regulators have several tools at their disposal to penalize insurance plans that break the rules, they rely mostly on relatively small financial penalties that may do little to deter violations.

IntroductionPatient and public involvement (PPI) in pricing and reimbursement (P&R) procedures is increasingly recognized as essential for strengthening the quality, legitimacy, and patient-centredness of healthcare decision-making. However, implementation remains heterogeneous across countries and data on concrete practices, barriers, and enablers are fragmented. This study aimed to map inte…

Health and Life Science Law Society (HaLS) is a student organization at at Berkeley Law dedicated to supporting students interested in biotechnology law, health policy, and related areas in the […]

Significant changes in federal policy slated to take effect in the coming months could disrupt health care coverage, costs, and access to care for millions of people, according to experts who spoke at a Studio event at Harvard Chan School.

FIGHT FOR RIGHTS VIEWPOINT SERIES, Vol 27/1, pp. 125-128, PDF Published 13 May 2025 Tsung-Ling Lee and Yi-Li Lee Taiwan, with a population of 23.56 million, implemented a nationwide single-payer health care system in 1995—the National Health…

Don’t miss our first Brownbag Seminar of the semester, this Wednesday, February 5th, 2025, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences, with Rebecca Staiger, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Dr. Staiger will present her work, “Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians’ Practice Locations Before and After Dobbs.” Further event details are here. The Human Mortality […] The post Week…

As the new Labour Government meets for its party conference in Liverpool this week, we have distilled evidence from our last decade of research into arts and health to inform how we collectively move forward. The post Where next for arts and health policy? first appeared on SBRG .

Discusses the impact of consolidating small jurisdictions of local health departments to create multi-county health departments that serve at least 50,000 people, in effort to build economies of scale and better improve population health. Includes an interview with Becky Johnson, administrator of the SEK Multi-County Health Department (SEKMCHD) in southeast Kansas, that provides insight on the be…