Center on Health Equity & Access

Experts at European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress 2025 highlight the critical link between reduced lung function and increased cardiovascular disease risk, urging early intervention and awareness.

Laxmi Patel urges rural hospitals to align leadership early and build logic models to show how transformation funds can drive access, equity, and sustainability.

Hope Krebill, MSW, BSN, RN, discusses the challenges rural hospitals face in delivering therapies like CAR T and bispecifics.

Research reveals that a high-fruit diet may protect women's lung function from air pollution, according to Pimpika Kaewsri, MSc.

Laxmi Patel explains how providers can meet potential new Medicaid documentation requirements without harming patient access.

Integrating these care services can enhance patient QOL and address unmet needs in serious respiratory illnesses, explains Natasha Smallwood, BMedSci, MBBS, MSc, Monash University.

The executive order signed in July features policy shifts that would put states in charge of funding for encampment sweeps, among other policy shifts.

Laxmi Patel urges hospitals to embed financial screening and simplify payment options to prepare for rising levels of uninsured patients from Medicaid changes.

Kathy Oubre, MS, discusses opportunities for community cancer centers to expand service lines without sacrificing care quality.

Consolidation in oncology is creating access and cost challenges, whereas advocacy helps improve patient care and treatment availability, according to Sucharu "Chris" Prakash, MD.

From proactive recruitment to academic-community partnerships, Hope Krebill highlights ways to improve clinical trial participation.

Proposed Medicaid cuts threaten children's health coverage, exacerbating existing gaps and impacting access to care for vulnerable populations.

The availability of retail pharmacies throughout the country have changed the health system in terms of accessibility and treatment, explains Mark Riggle, PharmD.

Medicare beneficiaries with near low income experience more affordability issues than beneficiaries with low income due to Medicare savings programs eligibility.

Medicare beneficiaries with near low income struggle most with health care affordability, highlighting gaps in financial assistance programs.

Laxmi Patel outlines how Medicaid reforms could raise bad debt, urging providers to strengthen financial counseling, assistance, and price transparency.

Same-sex couples now report higher insurance coverage than different-sex couples, but disparities by income, geography, and marital status remain.

New research highlights caregiver perspectives to improve colorectal cancer screening access for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

National survey data show rural residents are less likely to receive colorectal cancer screening, with socioeconomic and structural barriers driving the gap.

Accessibility to gender-affirming surgery needs to be improved for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals.

Laxmi Patel discusses proposed Medicaid reforms in HR 1, including work rules, coverage limits, and state-level risks for vulnerable populations.

The adoption of technologies like telehealth and health information exchange increased over time, but hospitals in the most disadvantaged areas were behind.

This article presents a systematic review of US health care disparities in physician specialist access across rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology and a call to action.

Data reveal a growing burden of early-onset type 2 diabetes, highlighting disparities and increased cardiometabolic risk

The Rural Health Transformation Program invests $50 billion to enhance health care access and quality in rural America.