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November 2025; Volume 3, Issue 11

This month's Health Affairs Scholar explores the strain of patient administrative burden, shifts in marketplace premium affordability, predictive approaches to identifying foster care needs, trends in global venture capital shaping US health care innovation, and more.

Editor's Choice

Patient administrative burden: a scoping review

Michael Anne Kyle et al.

Will expanding catastrophic coverage eligibility increase marketplace premium affordability in 2026?

David M Anderson et al.

Research Articles

Using machine learning to predict future foster care admission

Ari Ne’eman et al.

Flexibility over rigor: stakeholder acceptance of the limitations of confirmatory studies following accelerated approval

Holly Fernandez Lynch et al.

Research Letters

Global venture capital flows and US health care innovation

Yunan Ji and So-Yeon Kang

High prevalence of ghost rates in transparency in coverage data

David B Muhlestein

Recent Supreme Court Administrative Law Decisions: What They Mean For Health Care

Suhasini Ravi

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Medicare Risk Adjustment Overhaul Raises Critical Questions

Ruth Tabak et al.

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Native American Heritage Month Spotlight

Today we are highlighting Jessica Bylander for her commitment to advancing health equity for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs).

In an April 2025 article, Bylander discusses a collective of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)-centered organizations that is bringing an equity focus to food as medicine.