A new Issue Brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) indicates that states that have expanded Medicaid generate savings and revenue that can be used to finance other state spending priorities or offset much, if not all, of the state costs of expansion.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes a 40% excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health coverage.

A monograph from the American Council on Education (ACE) examines the evidence involving the claim that increases in federal financial aid drive up college tuition and whether institutions rely on federal aid as a rationale to give out less of their own institutional aid.

Leah Matthews, Executive Director of the Distance Education Accrediting Commission...

An Analysis in Brief from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)reports on how consumers’ access to health care has changed in the period leading up to and following the implementation of Medicaid expansion and insurance exchanges in January 2014 and examines the variations in access to care that persist.

According to projections by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one of every four new jobs added to the economy between 2014 and 2024 will be in health care fields.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its March 2016 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy.

A letter signed by more than 30 leading consumer protection and legal services organizations was sent to the  New York State Education Commissioner for the purpose of expressing concerns about New York signing onto the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)...

The 2016 County Health Rankings are available.

Population Health Management (PHM) is a broad effort whereby individual-, organizational- and cultural-level interventions are used to improve the disease burden of entire groups or populations.

A report by New America examines U.S. Department of Education data showing the average net price that students from low-income families attending 1,400 four-year public and private colleges paid in the 2013-2014 academic year.

As tuition levels rise, there are growing calls for fiscal responsibility and expectations that colleges and universities will use data to drive financial decisions and tie expenditures to student outcomes.

A new Issue Brief from the Health Care Cost Institute examines health care spending on shoppable services.

Because health is a function of more than medical care, solutions to U.S. health problems must encompass more than reforms to health care systems.

Legislatures have three policy levers at their disposal when developing higher education finance policy: tuition, general appropriations, and financial aid.

The results of a new study in the March 2016 issue of the journal Health Affairs comparing accountable care organizations (ACOs) that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are nonprofit, or have a relatively small share of Medicare patients are more likely to participate in ACOs than other hospitals.

Retail clinics are viewed as a less expensive option to going to a physician’s office or to an emergency room.