Health Affairs

Health Affairs is a respected peer-reviewed journal focused on healthcare, founded in 1981 by John K. Iglehart. Since 2014, Alan Weil has served as the editor-in-chief. The Washington Post has referred to it as "the bible of health policy," highlighting its importance in the field.

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Risk Adjustment Reform: Navigating Ideas And Tradeoffs (Part 2)

Mar 27, 2025 | healthaffairs.org | J. Michael

In an individual insurance market, plan payments are risk-adjusted to limit distortions in plan offerings that arise from incentives to select favorable risks. With this objective in mind, risk adjustment is often reduced to a statistical goal—to maximize the fit of a predictive model to spending data—in an attempt to vary per-person payments across plans according to the expected costs of the populations they attract.
Risk Adjustment Reform: Navigating Ideas And Tradeoffs (Part 1)

Mar 26, 2025 | healthaffairs.org | J. Michael

In an individual insurance market, plan payments are risk-adjusted to limit distortions in plan offerings that arise from incentives to select favorable risks. With this objective in mind, risk adjustment is often reduced to a statistical goal—to maximize the fit of a predictive model to spending data—in an attempt to vary per-person payments across plans according to the expected costs of the populations they attract.
Announcement: Health Policy At A Crossroads | Health Affairs

Feb 20, 2025 | healthaffairs.org

<i>Health Affairs</i> is pleased to issue a call for submissions to the new Forefront Featured Topic, “Health Policy At A Crossroads,” focused on salient health policy developments and debates as President Trump and the new Congress begin their terms. We would like to particularly highlight the most consequential policy shifts, including legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments.
PBMs Challenge FTC Enforcement Authority In Federal Court

Dec 11, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Sheela Ranganathan

In recent years, policymakers, regulators, and litigants have increased their focus on the practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in response to the high cost of prescription drugs. Specifically, there has been heightened tension between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the largest PBMs in the United States since 2022, when FTC launched an extensive investigation into potentially anticompetitive PBM practices.
Four Ways To Advance Accountable Chronic Pain Care

Dec 9, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Mara S. Baer

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
Addressing The Perinatal Mental Health Needs Of Adolescents

Dec 4, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Amy Lewin

The April 2024 special themed issue of Health Affairs on perinatal mental health and well-being brought together important research and much-needed focus on a topic that has complex determinants and far-reaching implications for family and child health. I appreciate that several of the papers in this issue used a reproductive justice framework, emphasizing the inequities faced by perinatal people with multiple marginalized identities, including poor people and people of color.
The FDA Should Reduce Nicotine In Cigarettes—And Use A Better Test To Ensure It Happens | Health Affairs Forefront

Dec 2, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | John Maa |Michelle Zhang

Eons before Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans cultivated the tobacco leaf for ceremonial activities and medicinal purposes for use during prayers and rituals. They presented the tobacco leaf as a gift to early explorers including Christopher Columbus, who carried it back to Europe.
Reforming HSAs To Expand Gig Workers’ Access To Affordable Health Care

Nov 25, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Joel White |David Hyman |Ge Bai

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein. Additional articles will be published throughout 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
Remembering David K. Jones's Scholarship Of Consequence

Nov 21, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Sandro Galea

When readers buy a book via a link on this page and others under Health Affairs Reads, we will receive a commission. Thank you for supporting Health Affairs. By David K. Jones, Edited by Debra Bingham, Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. GordonChapel Hill (NC): The University of North Carolina Press, 2024334pp., $23.95David Jones was a scholar, teacher, colleague, and a friend. I met David when I joined the Boston University School of Public Health as Dean in January 2015.
Global Budgeting In New York State: Lessons From Montefiore Health System

Nov 18, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | John Williford |Stephen M. Rosenthal |David Kim

In health care’s ongoing shift toward value-based payment and care delivery models, one of the most expansive innovations yet is the hospital global budget model. By aligning economic incentives with population health outcomes rather than patient volume, the global budget model offers perhaps the most forward-looking and boldest new approach to hospital financing.