Research Highlights

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) makes incentive payments to groups of clinicians and health care organizations known as accountable care organizations (ACOs), which assume responsibility for the quality and costs of their attributed patients. The MSSP was intended to generate savings while...

Pharmacy availability is often compromised in low-income communities, which are  more likely  to be in “pharmacy deserts” and  affected  by pharmacy closures. Lack of access to pharmacies negatively  impacts access to medications, but few studies have examined the policy determinants of pharmacy availability.  

Under the Affordable Care Act, expansion of Medicaid eligibility increased insurance  coverage  and Medicaid-paid prescriptions...

As of 2023, over 1.2 million individuals in the US receive nursing home care, the majority of whom are covered by Medicare. Nursing homes provide clinical care to patients recovering from illness, ...

About 70 percent of patients with advanced cancer and near the end-of-life experience moderate-to-severe pain. While there is international support for using opioid analgesics as first-line pain management ...