After increasing for nearly two decades, rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome have recently leveled off, reaching a plateau as early as 2014. These findings may represent successful efforts to ...

Commercial health plans pay higher prices than public payers for hospital care, which accounts for more than 5 percent of US gross domestic product. Crafting effective policy responses requires ...

Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...

James J. Crall ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles ...

The evidence for cannabis’s treatment efficacy across different conditions varies widely, and comprehensive data on the conditions for which people use cannabis are lacking. We analyzed state registry ...

At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...

Executives at large health systems across the United States have an interest in developing or expanding telehealth programs. While interest is increasing, telehealth implementation teams (or e-health ...

David C. Grossman ([email protected]) is senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, in Seattle. Bechara Choucair is senior vice president and chief community ...

State prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) aim to reduce risky controlled-substance prescribing, but early programs had limited impact. Several states implemented robust features in 2012–13, ...

Genevieve P. Kanter ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, both at the University of ...

Laurence C. Baker is a professor of health research and policy at Stanford University, in California, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Variation in Medicare payments across ambulatory settings has led to concerns about unnecessary spending and incentives to deliver care in more highly reimbursed settings. Across all settings, ...