Hospital Mergers Push Moms on Medicaid Farther for Care
Mergers Change Where Low-Income Women Give Birth—Prompting Calls for Regulators to Weigh Effects on Vulnerable Patients and Safety-Net Systems
Research & Policy Updates
What Makes Cash Transfer Programs Work?
LDI Experts Point to Four Conditions Grounded in Global Evidence
Your Emergency Surgery May Rely on Which Surgeon Is On Call
Clinical Reasoning May Lead Two Surgeons to Prescribe Different Treatments to Similar Patients
Paying for Healthy Choices
Evidence From More Than 600 Studies Reveals When Financial Incentives Move the Needle—And When They Don’t
Experts Warn Addiction Policy is Weak Despite Falling Overdose Deaths
Penn LDI Panel Urges Family-Focused Strategy and Stronger Health System Response
Virtual Nursing Gets Mixed Marks As Fix for Hospital Staffing Crisis
Remote Nurses Improved Quality Slightly but Can’t Replace Nurses at the Bedside, a New Study Finds
The Long-Term Care Experiment Everyone is Watching
Washington State’s First-in-the-Nation Insurance Plan Begins Payouts in Mid-2026, and Researchers Will Weigh its Effect on Care, Costs, and the Long-Term Care Markets
Loss of Vital Monitoring System Threatens Nation’s Health
Without Pressure From Congress, NHANES — Which Helped Uncover High Levels of Childhood Lead, Nutritional Deficiencies, and Forever Chemicals — Will Cease to Exist
Only One in Four High-Risk Rural Births Get Appropriate Hospital Care
A Multi-State Study Finds That Parents Often Travel 60+ Miles—With Distance, Insurance, and Race Driving Gaps in Maternal Care
How Parents Can Prepare for Major Medicaid Changes
Two Pediatricians Share Key Dates and Practical Next Steps
Inside Medicare’s Stalled Shift to Value-Based Care
Former CMMI Leader Liz Fowler Cites Rigid Federal Scoring Rules and Bureaucratic Impatience for Pilot Failures
How Hospitals Can Ease Staff Burnout—and Improve Patient Safety Â
A Major European–U.S. Hospital Study Finds That Changing How Hospitals Are Organized Reduces Burnout and Turnover While Improving Care Quality