The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inefficient patchwork that is US health care payment policy. The impact of these policies on skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing facilities, ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Among the many sweeping changes to the Medicaid program included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), Congress established new statutory caps on state-directed payments (“SDPs”) in Medicaid ...

As the U.S. ages and seniors opt for in-home care, lawmakers are stressing the importance of robust home health services. Still, provider and patient advocate witnesses at a Senate Finance Committee ...

Health care payments have long suffered from cumbersome paper processing. Fiserv is making the latest attempt to fix this problem through updates to its Clover point of sale system. Processing Content ...

Rusty had paid for a long-term care policy for many years. Then, one day, his daughter found a cancelation notice for nonpayment of premiums sitting on his desk. “Dad, why are you not paying the ...