Health Economics

Is Medicare Advantage Good for Your Health?

A Closer Look at a New NBER Working Paper

Emergency Medicine

Good News, Bad News: U.S. Health Emergency Response System

HHS Preparedness Chief Notes Recent Successes and Worrisome Budget Cuts

Health Policy

Inside The Boondoggle of Pennsylvania's CHIP Program

Two Grad Students Document a Maze of Obstructions

Health Policy

Penn Experts Respond to Oregon Medicaid Study

Health Economists Caution Against Rush to Judgement

International Health Care

Public vs. Private Funding for Health Care in Developing Countries

World Bank Conference Fuels Debate

Low-Value Care

Identifying Low-Value Care is One Thing; Eliminating it is Quite Another

The Practical Difficulties of Implementing 'Choosing Wisely' Recommendations

Health Policy

Academics Debate Hospitals' Smoker Hiring Ban

NEJM Publishes Dueling Papers by University of Pennsylvania Scholars

RWJF Capital Blog

Shedding Light on OpenNotes

And a Plea for Help With a Name Change

Health Policy

AcademyHealth National Policy Conference Coverage

11-Member University of Pennsylvania Team's Articles and Photos

Health Policy

From Medicare Policy to Massachusetts Governor?

Donald Berwick Explores Gubernatorial Run; Cites ACA Weaknesses

Workforce Issues

Full-License Use of Nurse Practitioners Continues to Expand

Unsupervised Role Broadens as State Legislatures Eye Physician Shortage and Lower Costs

Implementation Science

Facing What May be Health Reform's Ultimate Challenge

The Gap Separating Evidence From The Policy Makers Who Need It

Health Care Innovation

Personalized Medicine: The Promise and Perils

The Science and Economics Get Increasingly Complicated

Patient Engagement

Digitizing The Doctor-Patient Relationship

Does Our Rush Threaten Something Fundamental to Medicine?

Health Care Innovation

The Burgeoning Literature of Health Care Innovation

A Compilation of The Latest Information Sources

Accountable Care

Hospital ACO Readiness Study Finds Widespread Unreadiness

'Sobering' Results Cited by Research Team

Workforce Issues

Expanding Primary Care: Can The Existing Workforce Do It?

A Penn Research Group Roundtable Discussion

Health Economics

A Deeper Dive Into Health Costs Data

An "Eye on the Literature" Feature

Reinventing Health Care

Inside Penn Medicine's Innovation Center

A Roundtable Discussion of Innovation Managers

Health Insurance

Insurance & Behavioral Economics: How Buyers, Sellers Get It Wrong

Penn Professors' New Book Chronicles Industry Anomalies

Health Insurance Exchanges

Dissecting The Health Insurance Exchanges

A Penn Research Group Burrows Into the Complexity

Medicaid Expansion

How Far Can The ACA Reduce Health Care Disparities?

A New 'Eye on The Literature' Feature

Health Disparities

Near-Elderly Women and a New Medicaid Disparity

Many Will be Left Out as States Thwart Program Expansions

Health Policy

Insurance, Health Care and The SCOTUS Decision

A Panel of Penn Health Policy Experts Looks Ahead

Health Policy

Health Care's Challenges Beyond the SCOTUS Ruling

University of Pennyslvania Health System Chief Ralph Muller Weighs In

Education

Inside Penn's Pipeline for Minority Health Care Research Students

A Summer Reality Experience in Disparities and Health Services Scholarship

Health Policy

Ezekiel Emanuel: How 'Pushback' Shaped White House ACO Rules

Brief VIDEO of Comments From a Behavioral Economics Symposium

Health Insurance

The ACA's 50-State 'Essential Health Benefits' Tangle

Autism Advocates Wary of Losing Hard-Won Coverage

Researcher Profile: Lawton Burns

Penn Author Outlines Challenges to Medical Device Innovation

Reticent Surgeons, Sunshine Laws and Shifting 'Love Triangles'

Cost Control

The Healthcare Spending Crisis Beyond The Supreme Court Ruling

Health Economics Forum Focuses on Cost Controls

Healthcare Innovation

Once a Taboo, Exercise Becomes Post-Cancer-Surgery Rehab Tool

How Researchers Literally Rowed Past Traditional Medical Wisdom

Reform Economics

Physician Income in The New Age of Health Reform Frugality

A University of Pennsylvania Roundtable Discussion

Health Insurance

What Kind of Health Insurance Do Health Economists Buy?

Four of Them Discuss Their Choices and Reasons

Video Feature: Obesity Epidemic

Supermarkets and Obesity

University Researchers Explore Methods for In-Store Demarketing of Unhealthy Foods

Health Reform Law

Understanding The Individual Mandate's SCOTUS Pivot Points

Justices Ponder Adverse Selection, A Potential 'Death Spiral' and Severability

Nursing

Beyond Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

Emerging Research Consensus Eyes a More Complex Set of Variables

Health Care Reform

Penn Health Care Analysts Critique a PBS Documentary

Is 'U.S. Health Care: The Good News' Really That Good?

Emergency Medicine

The AED: Medical Marvel, Measurement Mystery

Lack of Data Gathering Impedes Broader and More Effective Use of a Life-Saving Device

Telemedicine

Lowering Premature-Infant Blindness Risk

Study Explores a Promising New Telemedicine Paradigm

Health Insurance

Making Sense of New Medical Loss Ratio Rules

What It Really Means to Insurers and Consumers

Healthcare Payment Systems

Meet The Architect of Vermont's Single-Payer Plan

Harvard's William Hsiao Zigs as Rest of Health Care Zags

Video Feature: Emergency Services

Tracking The 'Golden Hour' of Trauma Care

Interactive Mapping Project Provides New Insights

Health on Capitol Hill

Unspinning the 2009-10 Health Reform Public Opinion Polls

Research Team Faults Press for Inaccurate Interpretation and Reports

Health Research Funding

Arlen Specter: Are Universities Doing Enough to Support NIH Funding?

Says Cuts 'Cause Us to Lose a Generation of Scientists'

Electromagnetic Fields

Dialing Up The Cellphones-and-Cancer Controversy

Views of a Danish Researcher

Underserved Communities

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Why the Foreclosure Crisis is a Health Crisis

Health on Capitol Hill

The Growing Ruckus Over the RUC and Medicare Fees

Little-Known Rate-Setting Physicians' Panel Draws Sharp Criticism

Aggressive Hospital Care

AcademyHealth Honors Research Papers Challenging 'Aggressive' Hospital Assumptions

Contradict Previous Claims About Cost and Care Quality

Infectious Disease

Bioethicist Faults Media for Vaccine Reporting Distortions

Urges Health Community to Push Back Harder Against Anti-Vaccination Activists

Global Health

Global Health Care: Easy to Promise; Difficult to Achieve

Defining a University's Role

Video Feature: Emergency Medicine

Impose Further Limits on Emergency Room Access?

States' Latest Cost-Cutting Proposals Spark Debate

Medical Education

The Health-Economics Teaching Gap in Med Schools

Many Students Feel Unprepared For the Business Side of Health Reform Medicine

Fast Food and Obesity

The FDA Rolls Out Menu-Labeling Rules: But Does It Really Work?

Initial Analyses Find Little Impact on Fast Food Choices

Bioethics

NIH Ethics Chief: Conflict of Interest Rules Go Too Far

Ezekiel Emanuel Calls for New Thinking About Scholarship and Corporate Enterprise

Capitol Hill Policy Makers

Congressional Budget Office Eyes Health Research, Teaching Cuts

Targets NIH, The Largest Provider of Academic Grants

Health Reform

The New Medicaid: Expanded Eligibility, Less Care?

Harvard's Michael Chernew Fears 'Hollowed Out' State Programs