With mental health costs rising and insurance coverage uneven, state lawmakers are pursuing various policy actions to ensure people have access to affordable care.

An NCSL Q&A with Louis Lindstrom, the deputy director of civic education for the Washington Senate.

To preserve access to important emergency and other outpatient health care in rural communities, Congress created a new Medicare provider type, rural emergency hospital, under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

For all the talk about the power of AI (and its ethical implications), the burgeoning technology—once relegated to the pages of science fiction—remains remarkably under-regulated (if not unregulated) in the United States.

Supreme Court will reexamine and potentially limit or overturn the so-called Chevron deference, a decades-old doctrine that allows government agencies to interpret statutes whose language is not clear.

Shifting Medicaid spending from institutional to home-based care, a process known as rebalancing, can reduce state costs and let seniors stay at home as they age.