The Commonwealth Fund

Hospitals in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ohio will expand rural health care access and change how payers reward rural providers for delivering high-quality care.

Patients view the use of AI in primary care as inevitable but see opportunities for the technology to improve care and communication with their clinicians.

Misaligned payment and quality incentives, Medicare Advantage practices, and workforce constraints can limit Medicare beneficiaries’ home health services access.

While most Medicare home health experiences are positive, gaps remain in beneficiary knowledge, care coordination, and access to the full range of services.

Medicaid payment error rates under H.R. 1 could rise due to work requirements and other changes that make eligibility determination more complex for states.

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic characteristics in the United States.

Of providers in 10 countries, U.S. primary care physicians are among those who feel the least prepared to manage patients’ mental health issues.

It is predicted that the Rural Health Transformation Program’s modest economic gains will be overshadowed by losses from H.R. 1’s budgetary cutbacks.

The 2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Survey finds that for many Americans, having health insurance is no guarantee their care will be covered.

This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 18 other high-income countries.

The Biden administration said it would provide protections for transgender people against discrimination in health care, reversing a Trump administration policy.

Since 2019, Medicare Advantage plans have had flexibility to address unmet needs by targeting benefits and offering “primarily health-related” benefits.

Since 2019, Medicare Advantage plans have been allowed to offer an array of “primarily health-related” services, ranging from nutrition and wellness to in-home support services. Thomas Kornfield and colleagues discuss their new research on the availability of these expanded benefits.

Laura Shields-Zeeman and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, discuss lessons from efforts in other countries to generate social connections and reduce loneliness.

The Biden-Harris administration has an opportunity to mount an effective pandemic response and build its health care agenda. With so many interrelated crises looming, it is imperative that the administration develop a plan quickly and prioritize which steps to take immediately and which can be handled in the near future.

COVID-19 has exposed and intensified long-standing problems in our country, including deep cracks in the U.S. health system and racial and economic injustice As the Biden administration mounts its response to these interrelated crises, there is an opportunity and imperative to rethink the approach of federal leadership in creating a healthier America.

Writing in Harvard Business Review, David Blumenthal, M.D., comments on the recent decision by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to close Haven.

As the year begins, we offer our predictions and prescriptions for health care in 2021. Many of these reflect recommendations made by the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform.