Killing Pain: Fewer Opioid Scripts

Increasing Medicare Advantage payments for full Medicaid enrollees was not associated with meaningful changes in inpatient or nursing home use.

David Muhlestein, PhD, breaks down ghost rates, data gaps, and why stronger oversight is needed to make Transparency in Coverage files usable for patients.

Patients on commercial insurance were more likely to have at least 1 chronic condition, which can affect health care spending overall.

Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA, discusses 2026 health care predictions, including AI adoption, GLP-1 demand, MAHA growth, DEI’s return, and policy shifts.

With the CDC’s decision to roll back recommendations to vaccinate for several conditions, questions have arisen as to what that may mean in the US.

Socioeconomic and demographic factors influenced amputation and recurrence rates in upper extremity soft tissue sarcoma.