It’s one of the hardest questions in medicine: Should hospitals ever stop spending money to avert certain preventable deaths?
Stanford's David Ouyang sifted through more than a million texts to find out if clinicians inadvertently endorse brand-name medications over less expensive generic alternatives.
People living in the United States spend more per capita on prescription drugs than people living in any other country. In an effort to make …
What makes a physician's practice great? The ability to deliver high-quality health care at the most affordable cost is one key component that benefits patients, …
Billboards nationwide boast emergency room wait times — an oft-cited statistic of efficiency. But one way to boost efficiency, without increasing cost, may be to …
On Friday, KQED’s Forum offered a look at Medicare and Medicaid to mark the programs' 50-year anniversary. Stanford health policy researcher Laurence Baker, PhD, participated in the discussion, which covered …
Updated 4:07 PM: "Obamacare lives to fight another day," writes David Studdert, ScD, a core faculty member at CHP/PCOR and an expert in health law, in a …
Once upon a time, patients received care from a local doctor, who usually worked alone or with a few partners. Now, most physicians belong to …
American health-care spending is the highest in the world, yet some question whether that money really leads to improved patient outcomes. But significant reforms taking place within …
Big changes are ahead for Medicare, the largest payer in the U.S. health-care system. By 2018, Medicare aims to tie at least half of all payments …
A New York Times review called Steven Brill's book, America's Bitter Pill, "a thriller." Brill's tome on the building of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, …
An estimated 12 percent, or 36 million Americans, suffer from migraines, resulting in an economic loss of $31 billion each year due to lost productivity, …
A few years back, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made a straightforward change: No longer would it pay for easily preventable conditions …
Many of us know first-hand that expensive, substandard health care abounds in America. The problem has been analyzed and bemoaned, measured and critiqued. Solutions, bright spots …
Sanchay Gupta arrived at Stanford with a strong interest in income inequality. In 2013, he spent two weeks of his summer vacation in Guatemala exploring …
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, visited Stanford this week for a Health Policy Forum, "Can we put a price on good health? Controlling the …
