Continuity of care, no third-party billing, and price transparency: direct care and concierge medicine have long embraced some of the benefits that traditional medicine lacks, and these models have ...

Clinicians who provide “direct primary care” (DPC) and their patients are gaining a major windfall from the recently passed federal budget reconciliation legislation. Thanks to the “Big Beautiful ...

American health care is too often overpriced, impersonal, and dysfunctional. Too many middlemen and regulations in the health care system are driving up costs, increasing complexity, burning out our ...

Underneath my calm façade, the anxiety is overwhelming. It happens every time, unfailingly, whenever my husband and I drop off my son at his group home after he visits us. My son is a 25-year-old ...

Kevin Gibas is an infectious diseases doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as well as a research fellow with a focus in health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. As the ...

Unionization and working for a public employer are associated with significantly lower turnover among direct care workers (DCW), a group that provides daily care for older adults and those who are ...

Two bills that would require nursing homes to devote 80% of their funds to the direct care of residents moved through the Human Services Committee on Thursday despite objections from industry leaders, ...