A new study of more than 200 Davidson County women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer between 2008 and 2018 by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found that 77% of those women did not receive recommended screening or follow-up before their diagnosis.

Seema Verma, the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Donald Trump discussed the agency’s response to COVID-19 and shared details about the negotiations over Tennessee’s Medicaid waiver during a recent discussion with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Health Policy.

The Omicron wave of COVID-19 has caused record case numbers and a related surge in hospitalizations across Tennessee. This brief demonstrates how current high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations affect access to hospitals for every Tennessean, not just those in need of specialized care for COVID-19.

There are four leading proposals to redesign the Medicare Part D benefit for prescription drugs, and all of them would save the 48 million Americans that have a Part D insurance plan, according to a new analysis of the proposals published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A new Health Affairs study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers raises questions about the long-term benefit and value of the so-called Medicare “Two-Midnight Rule” implemented in 2013 to reduce costly and potentially unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions.

The Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine is conducting a targeted search for an open-rank tenure- or non-tenure-track faculty position with a commitment to and record of research in the areas of health decision sciences and cost-effectiveness analyses.