Rapidly rising health insurance premiums and a worsening medical malpractice insurance climate threaten to decrease health insurance coverage and access to health care in Miami.

This new policy analysis examines how determining what treatments work best for which patients in real-world settings—known as comparative effectiveness research—can help foster beneficial medical innovation.

Using data from round four of the Community Tracking Study, the authors describe how recent revenue and cost pressures have led physicians to aggressively increase prices and service volume and provide fewer traditional services that are less lucrative. As a result, physicians’ business...

A new policy analysis funded by the National Institute for Health Care Reform examines the appeal of episode-based payments as an alternative to the current fee-for-service model. The method bundles payment for some or all services for a specific health condition or event over a certain period...