While utilization is undeniably part of the equation, prices—whether labeled explicitly or embedded in measures of intensity—remain central to understanding why US health spending levels are high and ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...

States are expecting clarity within days for a key feature of Republicans’ signature budget reconciliation law — a $50 billion rural health care fund that has an end-of-year deadline for the ...

Editor’s note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 to connect with a trained ...

Nevada ranks 50th out of 51 among all states and the District of Columbia for its residents’ health care experiences. The finding is based on a survey of nearly 20,000 Americans nationwide. It's part ...

Abe Sutton, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center, speaks to state officials and corporate sponsors at the Rural Health Transformation Planning Summit in ...

Traci Hurley says watching her husband battle cancer in late 2021 was harrowing. "It was heartbreaking, and it was awful," she said. "I lived in fear every day." A battle made worse, she says, because ...

A nationwide experiment to give health care in rural America a $50 billion makeover is underway. The Trump administration, in a late December announcement, revealed how much each state will get under ...

Adetola F. Louis-Jacques receives funding from NIH, Direct Relief, Children's Trust of Alachua County. Seun Mauton Ajoseh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...