Center on Health Equity & Access

During a White House briefing, Mehmet Oz, MD, discussed the expansion of Trump Rx and crackdowns on duplicate ACA enrollment and fraudulent hospice programs.

An AI-driven review of oncology trials reveals that diversity progress over 30 years is largely an illusion driven by Asian enrollment growth.

Alexa Simon Meara, MD, MS, discusses breaking down silos between academic and community oncology to improve immunotherapy care and irAE management.

Coverage denials delay care, drive patients into debt, and erode trust in insurers—yet nearly half of affected patients never appeal.

The authors describe Medicare Advantage plans that screen for and provide supplemental benefits addressing social needs and explore how these benefits meet communities’ social needs.

Heat-attributable CVD burden could reach 418 DALYs per 100,000 by 2050 under high-emissions scenarios, with low-income counties hit hardest.

Even spending just 5% of income on medical costs raises food insecurity risk by 80% for families with children, study finds.

A cross-sectional study of online financial documents among hospitals in linguistically diverse core-based statistical areas found that nonprofit and system-affiliated hospitals have superior language access.

Trauma after cancer is underdiagnosed and often persists into survivorship, with experts urging trauma-informed screening in oncology care.

New CMS Medicaid work requirements could increase employment but may also cause millions of adults to lose coverage by 2027.

Abortion costs and Medicaid coverage vary by state, creating financial barriers for patients seeking care after the Dobbs v Jackson decision.

Accountable care offers one of the most promising frameworks for stabilizing and expanding access, but only if policy is intentionally designed to support rural participation.

Food insecurity among working-age US adults has significant economic consequences, primarily driven by increased job instability and income insecurity.

Socioeconomic, racial, and institutional factors significantly affect treatment access and patient outcomes in Guillain-Barré syndrome, despite standardized care guidelines in the US.

Girls and young women, as well as older teens, were more likely to report AI chatbot use for mental health advice, with Black youth more likely to engage monthly.

Reports highlight gaps in private equity oversight, MA vs FFS outcomes, cancer care access advances, climate health disparities, and uneven genomic testing.

Health plan infrastructure and patient reporting are underutilized, powerful tools for identifying food insecurity, Jonathan Wrathall, PhD, argues.

Elliot Tapper, MD, explains how digital health, precise screening, and direct hepatology care can treat alcohol-associated liver disease and mental health.

Study finds endometriosis severity plateaus after 30, but surgery risk and complexity climb in older women as fibrosis and adhesions build.

Phenotype-based care improves childhood obesity diagnosis and treatment, including obesity types, hypothalamic obesity, drugs, and surgery.

The scoping review shows menopause and multiple sclerosis (MS) shift from fewer relapses to higher symptom burden, highlighting care gaps for older women with MS.

Medicare FFS beneficiaries with metastatic cancer received broad genomic profiling more often than MA patients.

The American Thoracic Society 2026 International Conference included sessions that focused on topics such as pulmonary rehabilitation and global disparities in thoracic care.

An Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event in Princeton highlights how the state's leading cancer care providers meet the needs of a diverse population.

Beneficiaries in socially vulnerable communities received higher-quality, more-efficient care under value-based care (at-risk Medicare Advantage) compared with those in fee-for-service Medicare payment arrangements.