Rising-risk patients receiving Medicaid experience worsening medical and behavioral health conditions and increased acute care (ED and hospital) utilization, while typically being disconnected from ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

The burden of clinical documentation has become an enormous challenge for health care systems, contributing to clinician burnout, job dissatisfaction, and impaired physician–patient interactions that ...

Jackie Gerhart, Eric Poon, and Bob Kocher have nothing to disclose. Stephen Morrissey is the Executive Managing Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine.Thomas H. Lee is Chief Medical Officer of ...

Primary care providers are spending more time responding to electronic patient requests and completing other tasks in their digital in-basket that do not require their level of expertise. This ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) programs have grown rapidly, and a shift toward more medically complex beneficiaries has implications for health care utilization, costs, and quality in the MA program.

Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a Covid-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had ...

Preserving and improving the value of primary care — effective services, access for patients, satisfaction for clinicians — will not be an automatic result of value-based reimbursement, but will ...

There is a tremendous opportunity for group practices to engage patients before the in-person office encounter to accomplish both clinical and operational goals. A new remote workforce model combined ...

The Future of Health, an international community of senior health leaders, collaborated with the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy to identify what priority actions health delivery organizations ...

The index incorporates both patient-level and population-level data from 93 measures that are representative of social, physical, and behavioral factors of health to measure whole-person health.

A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds that health care organizations use behavioral nudges to modify patient behavior, improve clinical decision support, encourage the healthy behavior ...