Network Adequacy Standards and Enforcement
Health plan networks affect patient access to care. This brief reviews options for setting and enforcing network adequacy standards and tools for making differences in plan networks more transparent.
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How Many Physicians Have Opted Out of the Medicare Program?
Issue BriefThis brief provides the most recent data on the extent to which non-pediatric physicians are opting out of Medicare, by specialty and by state.
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Ten Things to Know About Consolidation in Health Care Provider Markets
Issue BriefAs policymakers and regulators pay more attention to consolidation in health care provider markets, this brief examines and summarizes the evidence about consolidation, including recent trends, the impact on prices and quality, and proposals to address consolidation and increase competition.
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Challenges with Effective Price Transparency Analyses
Issue BriefPromoting price transparency in health care is a policy approach with bi-partisan support in Congress and the public at large. This analysis examines the vast troves of price transparency data that payers are required and finds unlikely prices, inconsistencies, and other oddities that pose major challenges for efforts to use it to promote competition and drive down prices.
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The U.S. Has Fewer Physicians and Hospital Beds Per Capita Than Italy and Other Countries Overwhelmed by COVID-19
News ReleaseA new analysis and chart collection finds that the U.S. has fewer hospital beds and practicing physicians per capita than many similarly large and wealthy countries with health care systems already strained by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Additional Findings from the National Surveys of Doctors and Pharmacists
Poll FindingTwo Kaiser Family Foundation national surveys of doctors and pharmacists examine additional findings on their views and experiences on a wide range of health care issues.
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Medical Errors: Practicing Physician and Public Views
Poll FindingThis study by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation documents the attitudes of doctors and the public about medical errors and their or their families' experiences with medical errors in the course of receiving medical care.
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Increasing Medicaid Payments for Certain Primary Care Physicians in 2013 and 2014: A Primer on the Health Reform Provision and Final Rule
Issue BriefTo help ensure that access in Medicaid expands to meet anticipated higher demand for care, the health reform law requires states to pay certain physicians Medicaid fees that are at least equal to Medicare’s for a list of 146 primary care services in 2013 and 2014.
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Physician Workforce: The Next Generation
Event Date:EventThe new health reform law poses questions about how the increase in the insured population will affect the demand on the health care workforce.
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Health Affairs Article: Impact of State Tort Reforms on Physician Malpractice Payments
Issue BriefA study in the March/April 2007 issue of Health Affairs analyzes the impact of state tort reforms on physician malpractice claims. The study finds that the tort law changes have had a measurable but limited impact on physician malpractice claims, depending on the type and strength of the tort reform.