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Should Healthy Medicare Beneficiaries Postpone Enrollment in Part D?
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 9, November 2008.

Medicare Spending on HMOs and Stand-Alone Drug Plans: What Is It Worth to Beneficiaries?
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 8, November 2008.

Informing the Debate: Are Single Specialty Hospitals More Cost Efficient than Full-Service Hospitals?
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 7, October 2008.

The Medicaid Undercount: Real or Perceived Bias in Estimates of Coverage in General Population Surveys?
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 6, September 2008.

Improving Access to Improve Quality: Evaluation of an Organizational Innovation
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 5, August 2008.

Surviving the Perfect Storm: Impacts of Benefit Reductions and Increased Cost Sharing in a Medicaid Program
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 4, July 2008.

The Individual Insurance Market: A Building Block for Health Care Reform?
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 2, May 2008.

Assessing the Impact of Coverage Gaps in the Medicare Part D Drug Benefit
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 3, April 2008.

Rewarding Results Pay-for-Performance: Lessons for Medicare
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 1, March 2008.

The Impact of Hospital Ownership: Looking for Consistency Among Conflicting Findings
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 2, February 2008.

Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems
AcademyHealth, Vol. XI, No. 1, January 2008.

Geographic Variation in Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Healths Services Utilization: What is the Role of Physician Practice Patterns?
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 10, November 2007.

Medicare Advantage and the Impact of Medicare HMOs on Inpatient Utilization
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 9, October 2007.

Improving Quality Health Care: The Role of Consumer Engagement
October 2007

The Elusive Health Care Consumer: What Will It Take to Activate Patients?
October 2007

Navigating Health Care: Why It's So Hard and What Can Be Done to Make It Easier for the Average Consumer
October 2007

The Current and Future Role of Consumers in Making Treatment Decisions
October 2007

Choice in Medical Care: When Should the Consumer Decide?
October 2007

Consumer Choice in the Health Insurance and Provider Markets: A Look at the Evidence Thus Far
October 2007

Early Experiences with Federal Health Insurance Tax Credits
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 8, September 2007.

Financial Relief: The Effect of State Mental Health Parity Laws on Families of Children with Mental Health Care Needs
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 7, August 2007.

Meeting the Future Long-Term Care Needs of the Baby Boomers
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 6, July 2007.

Physician Payment: Is There a Better Way to Pay?
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 5, May 2007.

Investment Returns and Size of Damage Caps Impact Rising Cost of Malpractice Premiums
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 4, April 2007.

Pharmacogenomics: an Assessment of Market Conditions and Competition
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 3, March 2007.

Regional PPOs in Medicare: What are the Prospects
AcademyHealth, February 2007.

"A Sustainable Future?: The Role of Premium Subsidies in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans"
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 2, January 2007.

"Design of a Pharmacy Benefit for Low-Income Seniors: Lessons from State Pharmacy Assistance Programs"
AcademyHealth, Vol. X, No. 1, January 2007.

Medical Malpractice: Strengthening The Evidence Base
AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 8, December 2006.

"Who Decides: Do Individual Physicians in Group Practices Have Discretion Over Acceptance of New Medicaid Patients?"
AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 7, November 2006.

"Major Changes in Benefit Design: A Plausible Way to Control Costs?"
AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 6, November 2006.

"Corporate Finance and Consolidation in Health Care"
AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 5, August 2006.

"Evaluating the Cost Efficiency of Specialist Physicians"
AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 4, July 2006.

"The Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage: 1996 to 2000" AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 3, June 2006.

"Hospital Consolidation: Investigating Causes and Consequences" AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 2, May 2006.

"Bridging the Gap: The Role of Individual Health Insurance Coverage" AcademyHealth, Vol. IX, No. 1, February 2006.

"Managed Care for Children in Medicaid: Some Good News, but Not a Cure-All"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 6, November 2005.

"State Pharmacy Assistance Programs vs. Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: How Do They Contain Rising Costs?"
AcademyHealth: October 2005.

"Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Managed Care Plans"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 5, September 2005.

"State Pharmacy Assistance Programs at a Crossroads: How Will They Respond to the Medicare Drug Benefit"
AcademyHealth: July 2005.

"Health Savings Accounts as a Tool for Market Change"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 4, June 2005.

"Structure of Hospital Networks in California Affects Pricing"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 3, April 2005.

"Managed Care Mandates Fall Short of Curbing California Medicaid Costs"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 2, March 2005.

"Evaluating Promising New Treatments for Life-Threatening Disease: Implications of the HDC/ABMT Experience for Treating Breast Cancer"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VIII, No. 1, January 2005.

"Managed Care Does Not Appear to Have a Spillover Effect on the Quality of Diabetes Care for Medicare Patients"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VII, No. 7, December 2004.

"Mental Health Care Disparities Among Youths Vary by State"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VII, No. 6, October 2004.

"Pharmaceutical Formularies: The Right Formula for Cost and Utilization?"
AcademyHealth: Vol. VII, No. 5, August 2004.

"Children in Foster and Kinship Care at Risk for Inadequate Health Care Coverage and Access"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 7, Issue 4, July 2004.

"Safety Net 'Crowding Out' Private Health Insurance for Childless Adults"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 7, Issue 3, June 2004.

"Pregnant and Poor: Did Medicaid and Welfare Policy Changes Improve Care for these Women as Intended?"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 7, Issue 2, March 2004.

"State Variation in Insurance Laws a Major Driver of Employers’ Self-Insurance Decisions"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 7, Issue 1, February 2004.

"Subgroups of Working Uninsured Require Different Enrollment Strategies"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 6, December 2003.

"Health Plan Good 'Catch' for Fishing Industry"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 5, October 2003.

"New Research Highlights Effects of Medigap Reform"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 4, October 2003.

"Access and Use of Health Care Vary by Type of Medicaid Managed Care Program" AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 3, June 2003.

"New Payment System Has Little Effect on Access and Quality" AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 2, March 2003.

"How Do MCOs Decide Whether an Intervention is Medically Necessary?" AcademyHealth, Vol. 6, Issue 1, March 2003.

"Fewer Patient Visits under Capitation Offset by Improved Quality of Care -- Study Brings Evidence to Debate over Physician Payment Methods"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 5, Issue 3, September 2002.

"HMO Enrollees Experience Fewer Disparities than Other
Insured Populations -- For Educational Factors, HMOs Help 'Close the Gap'"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 5, Issue 2, April 2002.

"Community Characteristics Unable to Explain Disparities in Purchase of Individual Insurance by Minorities"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 5, Issue 1, January 2002.

"Structure of Prescription Drug Benefit May Help Medicare Beneficiaries Budget Prescription Drug Costs More Effectively"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 4, Issue 5, October 2001.

"Cultural Bias Emerges in Reported Access to Health Care: Commonly Used Measure May Be Inappropriate for Non-English-Speaking Hispanics"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 4, Issue 4, July 2001.

"Health Plan Payments Can Motivate Tighter Integration Between Physicians and Hospitals: Effects on Cost Remain Elusive" AcademyHealth, Vol. 4, Issue 3, April 2001.

"From Regulation to Competition: How Some Providers in New York Responded"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 4, Issue 2, January 2001.

"Health Purchasing Coalitions Struggle to Gain Bargaining Clout: Small Size and Lack of Support from Health Plans are Factors"
AcademyHealth, Vol. 4, Issue 1, June 2000.

"Health Plan Report Cards May Influence Insurers More Than Consumers: Their Effect on Insurer Behavior in Minnesota"
Alpha Center, Vol. 3, Issue 3, April 2000.

"Availability of Retiree Health Insurance Important Factor as Near-elderly Consider Leaving Work Force"
Alpha Center, Vol. 3, Issue 2, November 1999.

"Selective Contracting for Tertiary Care Services by Managed Care Plans: Price of Services Overshadows Quality When it Comes to Selecting Hospitals"
Alpha Center, Vol. 3, Issue 1, February 1999.

"Study Shows Physician Gatekeeping May Help Lower Costs, But Questions Remain About Physician and Patient Satisfaction"
Alpha Center, Vol. 2, Issue 3, August 1998.

"A Tale of Two Cities: Hospital Mergers in St. Louis and Philadelphia Not Reducing Excess Capacity"
Alpha Center, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April 1998.

"Study Links HMO Market Share with Decreases in the Market-Level Availability and Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)"
Alpha Center, Vol. 2, Issue 1, December 1997.

"Hospital Mergers Reduce Acute Care Beds but Overcapacity Remains an Issue"
Alpha Center, Vol. 1, Issue 3, June 1997.

"Study Offers Preliminary Evidence that OBRA-90's Medigap Reforms are Working"
Alpha Center, Vol. 1, Issue 2, March 1997.

"ESRI Study Explores Potential of Value-Based Purchasing in Employer-Based Coalitions"
Alpha Center, Vol. 1, Issue 1, December 1996.

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