Spending, Prior Authorization, Health Equity, And More Authors: Donald E. Metz and The Editorial Staff

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2026.00906 This issue of Health Affairs includes articles on health care spending, nonprofit hospitals’ investment portfolios, prior authorization in Medicare Advantage, and health equity. We also present articles in our sponsored series Eye On The IRA, Age-Friendly Health, and The Practice Of Medicine, supported, respectively, by the National Pharmaceutical Council, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Physicians Foundation.