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Briefs & Reports
2009
June
- Public Perspectives on Health Delivery System Reforms
Better understanding public views could help policymakers avoid potential problems both in designing, describing, and marketing reform proposals. This new report, “Public Perspectives on Health Delivery Reform,” by Jill Bernstein, Ph.D., provides a detailed analysis of public opinion and health services research studies of public views of health delivery system reforms. More
- Research Insights: The Role of Employer-Based Health Insurance under Health Care Reform
AcademyHealth provides a review of the differing perspectives on employers’ desires for comprehensive health care reform and the commitment of support from employers and businesses. Insights from the brief come from a panel discussion during the National Health Policy Conference, Feb. 2-3, 2009. More
- A First Look at the Volume and Cost of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States
While the health policy community debates the potential contributions of comparative effectiveness research to health care quality and costs, there is limited understanding of the current capacity for conducting comparative effectiveness research in the United States. This report is intended to help fill this gap by providing an environmental scan of the volume and the range of cost of recent comparative effectiveness research. More
May
- Research Insights: Incorporating Cost into Comparative Effectiveness
AcademyHealth provides a review of the differing perspectives on cost effectiveness analysis and its role (or lack thereof) in CER. Insights from the brief come from a panel discussion during the National Health Policy Conference, Feb. 2-3, 2009. More
- Compendium of Health Services Research to Inform Health Reform
AcademyHealth developed this compendium of ongoing or recently-completed health services research that has been funded by federal agencies and national foundations as a resource to inform health reform activities over the next few years. More
April
- 2008 Annual Report
View the 2008 Annual Report to learn more about AcademyHealth and the programs and initiatives that help advance the knowledge base of health policy and practice. More
2008
December
- Reducing the Administrative Burden of Health Care Quality Reporting
In a HCFO-funded study, Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., Debra Draper, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Center for Studying Health Systems Change (HSC) examined the impact of quality measurement and reporting activities on hospitals and the strategies hospitals use to manage the demands associated with reporting. More
November
- Should Healthy Medicare Beneficiaries Postpone Enrollment in Part D?
More
September
- Reducing Hospital Readmissions
More
- The Medicaid Undercount: Real or Perceived Bias in Estimates of Coverage in General Population Surveys?
This brief provides findings from a study conducted by HCFO researcher Kathleen Thiede Call, Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Call explored the accuracy of estimates of the number of uninsured derived from population surveys. More
August
- Improving Access to Improve Quality: Evaluation of an Organizational Innovation
More
July
- Can a Sales Tax on Medical Services Help Fund State Coverage Expansions?
More
- Surviving the Perfect Storm: Impacts of Benefit Reductions and Increased Cost Sharing in a Medicaid Program
More
June
- Issue Brief: Public Perspectives on Health Delivery System Reforms
Public opinion indicates underlying support for greater emphasis on primary care, prevention, health information systems and other components of proposed health reform.
However, there is also evidence of public concern (1) about the trustworthiness of health care products, providers, and sources of health information; (2) about privacy and confidentiality of medical records; (3) about consumers’ capacity and willingness to take on greater responsibility for making health care decisions; and, (4) about the effects of reform on choice of providers and treatment options. More
May
- Microsimulation Model for Reinsurance
More
- Reinsurance in State Health Reform
More
- The Individual Insurance Market: A Building Block for Health Care Reform?
More
- The Individual Insurance Market: A Building Block for Health Care Reform? Insights from HCFO Research Results
Adele M. Kirk, Ph.D. More
April
- Administrative
Simplification Project
Case Study – Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH)
Bonnie J. Austin, J.D. and Emily A. Bosk More
- Assessing the Impact of Coverage Gaps in the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit
More
- Consumer-Preparedness for Long-Term Care
More
March
- Rewarding Results Pay-for-Performance: Lessons for Medicare
More
February
- 2007 Federal Funding for Health Services Research
More
- The Impact of Hospital Ownership: Looking for Consistency Among Conflicting Findings
More
January
- Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems
More
- State of the States 2008
Margaret Trinity, Enrique Martinez-Vidal, Isabel Friedenzohn, Amanda Folsom, Brynnan Cox More
2007
November
- Geographic Variation in Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Utilization: What is the Role of Physician Practice Patterns?
More
- Marketing State Insurance Coverage Programs: Experiences from Four States
More
October
- Choice in Medical Care: When Should the Consumer Decide?
More
- Consumer Choice in the Health Insurance and Provider Markets: A Look at the Evidence Thus Far
More
- Improving Quality Health Care: The Role of Consumer Engagement
More
- Medicare Advantage and the Impact of Medicare HMOs on Inpatient Utilization
More
- Navigating Health Care: Why It’s So Hard and What Can Be Done to Make It Easier for the Average Consumer
This issue brief examines the work of Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H., Baruch College, on challenges consumers face when navigating the health care system, commissioned for an RWJF/HCFO meeting to examine the role of consumer engagement in improving the quality of health care. More
- The Current and Future Role of Consumers in Making Treatment Decisions
More
- The Elusive Health Care Consumer: What Will It Take to Activate Patients?
This issue brief examines the work of HCFO researcher Judith H. Hibbard, Dr.P.H., University of Oregon, on consumer activation, commissioned for an RWJF/HCFO meeting to examine the role of consumer engagement in improving the quality of health care. More
September
- Early Experiences with Federal Health Insurance Tax Credits
More
- Health Insurance Connectors and Exchanges: A Primer for State Officials
Amy Lischko for State Coverage Initiatives More
August
- Automatic Enrollment Strategies: Helping State Coverage Expansions Achieve Their Goals
More
- Financial Relief: The Effect of State Mental Health Parity Laws on Families of Children with Mental Health Care Needs
More
July
- Historical Analysis of Ownership & Publication Rights in Government Contracts for Health Services Research
More
- Meeting the Future Long-Term Care Needs of the Baby Boomers
More
June
- Affordable Clustered Housing-Care: A Viable Alternative for Long-Term Care in a Residential Setting?
More
- TennCare Reform, One Year Later: An Assessment of the Impact of the 2005-2006 Changes in the TennCare Program
More
May
- Physician Payment: Is There a Better Way to Pay?
This findings brief discusses approaches to physician payment, existing and evolving, including structural changes and incentives that should be examined as new payment systems are explored. More
April
- Investment Returns and Size of Damage Caps Impact Rising Cost of Malpractice Premiums
More
March
- Efforts to Expand Coverage to the Uninsured: Program Design Challenges and Tradeoffs in Six States
Prepared by Todd Eberly, Asher Mikow, John O'Brien, and Susan Tucker for HRSA and SCI More
- Pharmacogenomics: an Assessment of Market Conditions and Competition
More
February
- ERISA Update: Federal Court of Appeals Agrees ERISA Preempts Maryland’s “Fair Share Act”
Prepared for AcademyHealth and the National Academy for State Health Policy
Patricia A. Butler, JD, DrPH More
- Regional PPOs in Medicare: What are the Prospects
More
January
- A Sustainable Future?: The Role of Premium Subsidies in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
More
- Design of a Pharmacy Benefit for Low-Income Seniors: Lessons from State Pharmacy Assistance Programs
More
- State of the States 2007
Amanda Brodt, Alice Burton, Donald Cohn, Brynnan Cox, Amanda Folsom, Isabel Friedenzohn, Enrique Martinez-Vidal, Margaret Trinity More
2006
December
- Medical Malpractice: Strengthening The Evidence Base
More
November
- ERISA Implications for State Health Care Access Initiatives: Impact of the Maryland “Fair Share Act” Court Decision
More
- Major Changes in Benefit Design: A Plausible Way to Control Costs?
More
- Oklahoma Employer/Employee Partnership for Insurance Coverage (O-EPIC)
More
- Strengthening the Field of Health Services Research: A Needs Assessment of Key Producers and Users
More
- Who Decides: Do Individual Physicians in Group Practices
Have Discretion Over Acceptance of New Medicaid Patients?
More
August
- Corporate Finance and Consolidation in Health Care
More
- Cutting Edge "Evidence" for Policymakers
More
- Discovering an Untapped Resource for Health Services Researchers
More
- The Pennsylvania Community Health Reinvestment Agreement: Establishing Non-Profit Insurers' Community Benefit Obligations
Carol Pryor and Catherine Dunham, The Access Project More
- The Pennsylvania Community Health Reinvestment Agreement: Establishing Non-Profit Insurers' Community Benefit Obligations
By Carol Pryor and Catherine Dunham More
- Turning Medicaid Beneficiaries into Purchasers of Health Care: Critical Success Factors for Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Purchasing
Charles Milligan, Cynthia Woodcock, and Alice Burton More
July
- Evaluating the Cost Efficiency of Specialist Physicians
More
June
- The Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage: 1996 to 2000
More
May
- Efficiency in Health Care: What Does it Mean?
How is it Measured? How Can it be Used for
Value-Based Purchasing?
Highlights from a National Conference
More
- Hospital Consolidation: Investigating Causes and Consequences
More
April
March
- HSR Impact: Specialty Hospitals
More
- HSR Impact: The Business Case for Nurse Staffing
More
- New Mexico State Coverage Insurance
SCI recently talked with Pamela S. Hyde, J.D., secretary, Human Services Department, about New Mexico State Coverage Insurance. More
- Uncharted Territory: Current Trends in Section 1115 Demonstrations
Theresa Sachs, Jenna Walls, and Isabel Friedenzohn More
February
- Bridging the Gap: The Role of Individual Health Insurance Coverage
," AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 1, . More
January
- State of the States 2006
Alice Burton, Daniel Campion, Donald Cohn, Isabel Friedenzohn, Enrique Martinez-Vidal, Margaret Trinity, Kari Root More
- Turning Medicaid Beneficiaries into Purchasers of Health Care: Critical Success Factors for Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Purchasing
Charles Milligan, Cynthia Woodcock, and Alice Burton More
2005
December
- Federal Funding for Health Services Research
More
November
- Managed Care for Children in Medicaid: Some Good News, but Not a Cure-All
(HCFO)
Susan Edwards More
October
- State Pharmacy Assistance Programs vs. Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: How Do They Contain Rising Costs?
(HCFO)
Sarah Goodell, Jack Hoadley, Ellen O’Brien,
and Claudia Williams More
September
- Placement, Coordination, and Funding of Health Services Research within the Federal Government
More
- Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Managed Care Plans
(HCFO)
Monica Marchetta More
July
- State Pharmacy Assistance Programs at a Crossroads: How Will They Respond to the Medicare Drug Benefit
Claudia Williams, Sarah Goodell, Jack Hoadley, Ellen O’Brien, and Matt Kanter
(HCFO) More
June
- Health Savings Accounts as a Tool for Market Change
Monica Marchetta and Deborah Rogal
(HCFO: Vol. VIII, No. 4) More
- More Answers on Reinsurance
Donald Cohn, Enrique Martinez-Vidal, and Deborah Chollet
(SCI: Vol. VI, No. 2) More
- Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Health Services Research:
Pockets of Progress but a Long Way to Go
Study supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation More
- The Promises and Pitfalls of Web Publishing for Health Services Research: An Expert Meeting
Anne Gauthier and Samantha Burch More
May
- Profiles in Coverage: Maine Dirigo
SCI talks with Trish Riley, director of the Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, about Dirigo. More
April
- State and Community Collaboration: Lessons from the Communities in Charge Program and Other Local Initiatives
Isabel Friedenzohn and Terry Stoller
(SCI: Vol. VI, No. 1) More
- Structure of Hospital Networks in California Affects Pricing
LeAnne DeFrancesco
(HCFO: Vol. VIII, No. 3) More
March
- Managed Care Mandates Fall Short of Curbing California Medicaid Costs
Bonnie Austin, J.D.
(HCFO: Vol. VIII, No. 2) More
January
- Evaluating
Promising New Treatments for Life-Threatening Disease: Implications of
the HDC/ABMT Experience for Treating Breast Cancer
Susan Edwards
(HCFO: Vol. VIII, No. 1) More
- Profiles in Coverage: Healthy New York
Governor George E. Pataki (R) and Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio answer questions about the program. More
- State
of the States 2005
Bonnie Austin, Alice Burton, LeAnne DeFrancesco, Isabel Friedenzohn, Shitang Patel, Myisha Patterson, Margaret Trinity More
2004
December
- Ethical Guidelines: Managing
Conflicts of Interest in Health Services Research
More
- Managed
Care Does Not Appear to Have a Spillover Effect on the Quality of Diabetes
Care for Medicare Patients
Susan Edwards
(HCFO: Vol. VII, No. 7) More
October
- HSR
Impact: Health Care Worker Safety
More
- Improving
Federal Health Data for Coverage and Access Policy Development Needs
More
- Mental
Health Care Disparities Among Youths Vary by State
Laura McDaniel and Susan Edwards
(HCFO: Vol. VII, No. 6) More
- The
Role of Reinsurance in State Efforts to Expand Coverage
Deborah Chollet, Ph.D.
(SCI: Vol. V, No. 4) More
- Using
Health Research in Policy and Practice: Case Studies from Nine Countries
Ray Moynihan (Co-Published with AcademyHealth)
In
this report, Ray Moynihan, an experienced journalist, describes collaboration
between researchers and users of their skills and findings in nine countries.
Moynihan introduces the report by briefly recapitulating controversial
issues in the application of knowledge derived from research to policy
and practice. He concludes by describing common themes in the nine stories. More
September
- Health
Savings Accounts: Issues and Implementation Decisions for States
Mila Kofman, J.D.
(SCI: Vol. V, No. 3) More
August
- ERISA
Update: The Supreme Court Texas Decision and Other Recent Developments
Patricia
Butler
(SCI: Vol. V, No. 2) More
- Pharmaceutical
Formularies: The Right Formula for Cost and Utilization?
Bonnie Austin, J.D.
(HCFO: Vol. VII, No. 5) More
July
- Children
in Foster and Kinship Care at Risk for Inadequate Health Care Coverage
and Access
Robert Kornegay
(HCFO: Vol. VII, Issue 4) More
- Limited-Benefit
Policies: Public and Private-Sector Experiences
Isabel Friedenzohn
(SCI: Vol. V, No. 1) More
June
- Safety
Net 'Crowding Out' Private Health Insurance for Childless Adults
LeAnne DeFrancesco
(HCFO: Vol. VII, Issue 3) More
May
- Federal
Funding for Health Services Research
More
April
- HSR
Impact: Diabetes Management
More
March
- HSR
Impact: Quality and Safety
More
- Pregnant
and Poor: Did Medicaid and Welfare Policy Changes Improve Care for these
Women as Intended?
Deborah Rogal
(HCFO: Vol. VII, Issue 2) More
February
- State
Variation in Insurance Laws a Major Driver of Employers’ Self-Insurance
Decisions
LeAnne DeFrancesco
(HCFO: Vol. VII, No. 1) More
January
- Health-Based
Risk Assessment: Risk-Adjusted Payments and Beyond
Kathryn E. Martin, Sharon B. Arnold, and Deborah L. Rogal More
- State
of the States 2004
Isabel Friedenzohn, Elizabeth Greenbaum, Madeleine Konig, Benjamin Wheatley, LeAnne DeFrancesco, Jeremy Alberga, Christina Folz More
2003
December
- Subgroups of Working Uninsured Require Different Enrollment Strategies
Ann Marshall
(HCFO: Vol. VI, No. 6) More
November
- Evaluating ROI in State Disease Management Programs
Thomas W. Wilson
(SCI: Vol. IV, No. 5) More
October
- Health Plan Good "Catch" for Fishing Industry
LeAnne DeFrancesco
(HCFO: Vol. VI, No. 5) More
- New Research Highlights Effects of Medigap Reform
Bonnie Austin and LeAnne DeFrancesco
(HCFO: Vol. VI, No. 4) More
September
- Mapping State Health Insurance Markets, 2001: Structure and Change
Deborah Chollet, Fabrice Smieliauskas, and Madeleine Konig More
July
- Using Rural Health Networks to Address Local Needs: Five Case Studies
Ira Moscovice and Walter Elias More
June
- Access and Use of Health Care Vary by Type of Medicaid Managed
Care Program
Lisa Fleisher
(HCFO: Vol. VI, No. 3) More
- Long-Term Care: Collaborating for Solutions
Deborah Rogal and Laura McDaniel More
- Long-Term Care: Confronting Today’s Challenges
Carol Raphael More
- Long-Term Care: Informed by Research
Francis Caro More
April
- Group Purchasing Arrangements: Issues for States
Mila Kofman
(SCI: Vol. IV, No. 3) More
- States' Experience with Benefit Design
Isabel Friedenzohn
(SCI: Vol. IV, No. 4) More
March
- How Do MCOs Decide Whether an Intervention is Medically Necessary?
Bonnie Austin
(HCFO: Vol. 6, Issue 1) More
- In Focus - The Trade Act of 2002: Coverage Options for States
Stan Dorn
(SCI: Vol. IV, No. 2) More
- New Payment System Has Little Effect on Access and Quality
Kathryn Martin
(HCFO: Vol. 6, Issue 2) More
February
- Financing End-of-Life Care: Challenges for an Aging Population
Bonnie Austin and Lisa Fleisher More
- Leveraging Local Funds to Expand Coverage in Lean Times
Caton Fenz
(SCI: Vol. IV, No. 1) More
January
- State of the States 2003
Christina Folz, Isabel Friedenzohn, LeAnne DeFrancesco, Madeleine Konig, Lesly Hallman, and Jeremy Alberga More
2002
December
- Disease
Management: Findings from Leading State Programs
Ben
Wheatley
(SCI: Vol. III, No. 3) More
September
- Does
X Really Cause Y?
Bryan Dowd and Robert Town More
- Fewer
Patient Visits under Capitation Offset by Improved Quality of Care --
Study Brings Evidence to Debate over Physician Payment Methods
Catherine V. Eikel
(HCFO: Vol. 5, Issue 3) More
August
- Health
Insurance Flexibility and Accountability Initiative: Opportunities and
Issues for States
Gretchen Engquist and Peter Burns
(SCI: Vol. III, No. 2) More
May
- Disease
Management: A Promising Approach for Health Care Purchasers
Robert E. Mechanic, M.B.A.
(NHCPI) More
- Ensuring
Quality Health Plans: A Purchaser's Toolkit for Using Incentives
Bailit
Health Purchasing, LLC More
- Ensuring
Quality Providers: A Purchaser's Toolkit for Using Incentives
Bailit
Health Purchasing, LLC More
- State
Health Care Spending: A Systems Perspective
Caton Fenz
(SCI: Vol. III, No. 1) More
April
- HMO
Enrollees Experience Fewer Disparities than Other
Insured Populations -- For Educational Factors, HMOs Help "Close
the Gap"
LeAnne
DeFrancesco
(HCFO, Vol. 5, Issue 2) More
- Social
Marketing: A Vehicle for Employer-Driven Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention
Lucy A. Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A., Karl E. Umble, Ph.D., M.P.H. More
March
- Provider
Incentive Models for Improving the Quality of Care
Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC More
February
- Shifting
Responsibilities: Models of Defined Contribution
Kathryn E. Martin More
January
- Community
Characteristics Unable to Explain Disparities in Purchase of Individual
Insurance by Minorities
Bonnie Austin
(HCFO, Vol. 5, Issue 1) More
- State
of the States 2002
LeAnne DeFrancesco, Christina Folz, Madeleine Konig, and Carole Lee More
- The
Growing Case for Using Physician Incentives to Improve Health Care Quality
Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC & Sixth Man Consulting, Inc. More
2001
December
- Advancing
Patient Safety: The Leapfrog Group
Veronica Goff
(NHCPI) More
October
- Structure
of Prescription Drug Benefit May Help Medicare Beneficiaries Budget
Prescription Drug Costs More Effectively
(HCFO, Vol. 4, Issue 5) More
September
- Building
Quality Improvement Into Defined Contribution Strategies
Jack A. Meyer & Ingrid A. Tillmann More
August
- Full-Cost
Buy-Ins: An Overview of State Experience
Michael Birnbaum
(SCI) More
- Medicaid
Disease Management: Seeking to Reduce Spending by Promoting Health
Ben Wheatley
(SCI) More
- The
Challenge of Managed Care Regulation: Making Markets Work?
Deborah L. Rogal and Robert J. Stenger More
July
- Consumer
Health Care Decision Support: State of the Art
Veronica Goff
(NHCPI) More
- Cultural
Bias Emerges in Reported Access to Health Care: Commonly Used Measure
May Be Inappropriate for Non-English-Speaking Hispanics
Bonnie Austin
(HCFO, Vol. 4, Issue 4) More
- Health
Care Communications for Employees with Chronic Conditions
Aryne Blumklotz, David J. Lansky
(NHCPI) More
June
- Employer
Buy-In Program: How Four States Subsidize Employer-Sponsored Insurance
(Wisconsin Update)
More
- Understanding
the Dynamics of 'Crowd-out': Defining Public/Private Coverage Substitution
for Policy and Research
Tanya T. Alteras More
May
- Corporate
Health Care Purchasing Among The Fortune 500
James Maxwell, Forrest Briscoe, Corey Watts, Saminaz Zaman, Peter Temin More
- Section
1115 Waivers and Budget Neutrality: Using Medicaid Funds to Expand Coverage
Charles Milligan
(SCI) More
April
- Health
Plan Payments Can Motivate Tighter Integration Between Physicians and
Hospitals: Effects on Cost Remain Elusive
Junette McWilliams
(HCFO, Vol. 4, Issue 3) More
March
- Employer
Buy-In: How Four States Subsidize Employer-Sponsored Insurance
More
- What
is Unique About Public Purchasing?
Susan O'Loughlin Ward More
January
- From
Regulation to Competition: How Some Providers in New York Responded
Tanya Alteras
(HCFO, Vol. 4, Issue 2) More
- Managed
Care Purchasing and Compliance Monitoring
Paula McCann
(NHCPI) More
- Purchaser-Supplier
Relationships: Creating Successful Partnerships
Meryl Friedman
(NHCPI) More
- Purchasers
Focus on Patient Safety
Sarah Callahan
(NHCPI) More
- State of the States 2001
Ben Wheatley, Jeremy Alberga, LeAnne DeFrancesco, and Sarah Molinari More
- Wisconsin's
BadgerCare Program Offers Innovative Approach for Family Coverage
Jeremy Alberga
(SCI) More
2000
December
- Disparities
in State Health Coverage: A Matter of Policy or Fortune?
Christopher Trenholm and Susanna Kung More
- Mapping
State Health Insurance Markets: Structure and Change in the States'
Group and Individual Health Insurance Markets, 1995-1997
Deborah J. Chollet, Adele M. Kirk, and Marc E. Chow More
September
- Financial
Performance Incentives for Quality: The State of the Art
Michael Bailit and Christine Kokenyesi
(NHCPI) More
- The
Health Care Consumer as Purchaser: Shifting Dynamics
Ingrid Tillmann, MS, MPH
(NHCPI) More
August
- ERISA
Complicates State Efforts to Improve Access to Individual Insurance
for the Medically High Risk
Pat Butler
(SCI) More
July
- Health
Plan Data: A Rich Resource Ripe with Challenges
Carole C. Lee and Amy B. Bernstein More
- Negotiating
Strategies for Health Care Purchasers
Robert Adler
(NHCPI) More
June
- Health
Purchasing Coalitions Struggle to Gain Bargaining Clout: Small Size
and Lack of Support from Health Plans are Factors
Robert Stenger
(HCFO, Vol. 4, Issue 1) More
May
- Expanding
Coverage to Parents through Medicaid Section 1931
Michael Birnbaum
(SCI) More
- State Approaches to Expanding Family Coverage
Ben Wheatley
(SCI) More
April
- Health
Plan Report Cards May Influence Insurers More Than Consumers: Their
Effect on Insurer Behavior in Minnesota
Tanya
Alteras
(HCFO, Vol. 3, Issue 3) More
February
- Evaluating State Health Coverage Expansions
Marsha Gold More
January
- ERISA
Preemption Manual for State Health Policy Makers
Patricia Butler
Produced jointly with the National Academy for State Health Policy
For an update on
, More
- ERISA
Preemption Primer
Patricia Butler More
- State
of the States 2000
Jeremy Alberga, LeAnne DeFrancesco, and Benjamin Wheatley More
1999
November
- Availability
of Retiree Health Insurance Important Factor as Near-elderly Consider
Leaving Work Force
Tanya Alteras
(HCFO, Vol. 3, Issue 2) More
June
- Purchasing
Private Health Insurance through Government Health Care Programs: A
Guide for States
Laura A. Tollen More
May
- Purchasing
Pathfinders: On Their Way, But Still Wrestling With the Realities of
Containing Costs and Promoting Quality
Carole Lee, Kerry Kemp, and Deborah L. Rogal More
February
- Selective
Contracting for Tertiary Care Services by Managed Care Plans: Price
of Services Overshadows Quality When it Comes to Selecting Hospitals
Tanya Alteras
(HCFO, Vol. 3, Issue 1) More
1998
August
- Study
Shows Physician Gatekeeping May Help Lower Costs, But Questions Remain
About Physician and Patient Satisfaction
Tanya Alteras
(HCFO, Vol. 2, Issue 3) More
April
- A
Tale of Two Cities: Hospital Mergers in St. Louis and Philadelphia Not
Reducing Excess Capacity
Kerry Kemp
(HCFO, Vol. 2, Issue 2) More
1997
March
- Risk
Adjustment: A Key to Changing Incentives in the Health Insurance Market:
A Special Report
Carole Lee and Deborah L. Rogal More
- ERISA Update: Federal Court of Appeals Agrees ERISA Preempts Maryland’s “Fair Share Act”
Prepared for AcademyHealth and the National Academy for State Health Policy
Patricia A. Butler, JD, DrPH More
- Health
Outcomes Research: A Primer
Foundation for Health Services Research
1994 More
- West Virginia Small Business Plan
Fall 2005 (SCI)
SCI talks with Sonia Chambers, chair of the West Virginia Health Care Authority, and Sally Richardson, executive director of the Institute for Health Policy Research at West Virginia University, about the West Virginia Small Business Plan. More
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