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- Access to Care Among Hispanics: Implications for Understanding Community Variation
- A Comparative Analysis of Small and Large Group Health Care Utilization and Costs, 1988-1990
- A Comparative Evaluation of Risk-Adjustment Methodologies for Profiling Physician Practice Efficiency
- Administrative Costs Associated with Third Party Payment
- Administrative Simplification Challenges and Opportunities: A Physician Organization's Perspective
- Alternative Models for Ensuring Access to Primary Medical Care in Nursing Facilities
- A Methodological Evaluation of Non-Response on the Physician Component of the Community
- An Academic Health Center and Public Health Practice Collaboration: Disseminating Continuous Quality Improvement Capability to Local and State Public Health Agencies
- Analysis of the Transfer of Risk and Clinical Management Responsibilities to Physician Organizations
- An Analysis of the Effects of Medical Underwriting
- An Early Portrait of Consumer-Directed Health Benefits: Design, Integration, Penetration, and Effects
- An Empirical Investigation of Employee Health Plan Choice and Switching Behavior Under Managed Competition
- An Evaluation of the Current and Potential Impact of Consumer Survey-Based Report Cards on the Health Care Market Place
- An Evaluation of the Impact of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 on Selected Clinical Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, and Health Status
- An Investigation of the Management Uses of Health-based Risk Adjustment Tools by U.S. Purchasers and Health Plans
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Collaborative Care: An Alternative Model for Organizing Health Care Delivery in Teaching Hospitals
- Are Highly Concentrated Health Care Markets Bad for Health Care?
- Arkansas School Health Insurance Project (ASHIP)
- Assessing the Impact of a Public Report on Hospital Quality: A Controlled Experiment in the State of Wisconsin
- Assessing the Impact of Hospital Mergers
- Assessing the Impact of Medicaid Equalization Policies on Access to Nursing Home Care
- Assessment of Quality of Care Under PPS By Examining Patient Functional Status Through Post-Hospital Period -- A Feasibility Study
- Assessment of Training Needs for Public Health Financial Managers
- A Systematic Study of Nebraska’s Regional Public Health Agency Model
- Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation (ABMT) and the Treatment of Breast Cancer: The U.S. Experience
- Barriers to Small-Group Purchasing Coalitions
- Beyond the Gatekeeper: How Managed Care Organizations Affect the Use of Technology
- Broadening Access to Prenatal Care through Expansions: The Impact on Prenatal Care Use and Infant Mortality
- Business Views of Strengths and Weaknesses of the Employer-Based System for Providing Health Insurance Coverage
- Californians' Health Insurance Coverage: Research for Public Policy Making and Planning
- Can Disease Management Control Costs?
- Capped Prescription Benefits and Medicare Managed Care
- Causes and Consequences of Change in Local Public Health Spending
- Causes and Consequences of the HMO Underwriting Cycle
- CCRCs: An Efficient Alternative for Long-Term Care Provision and Financing?
- Changes in Drug Payment and Management Strategies in Physician Organization
- Changes in Drug Utilization for Seniors without Prior Prescription Drug Insurance
- Changes in Employer-Offered Health Insurance: Firms Decision Making & Employee Satisfaction
- Changes in Hospital Configurations Between 1980 and 1995 in Urban America
- Changes in Physicians’ Decisions to Treat Medicaid Patients and the Uninsured
- Changing Medicaid Physician Fees: Effects on Access and Total Cost
- Characteristics and Determinants of Intragovernmental Activity Within State Public Health Systems
- Comparing the Cost Effectiveness of Chronic Care between Medicare Advantage and FFS Medicare Beneficiaries
- Comparison of Public Health Organizational Structures Using Dynamic Network Analysis
- Competition, Volume, and Outcome in Cardiovascular Care in California
- Competitive Bidding in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan
- Conditions of Practice and Quality of Care: Physicians' Perceptions
- Consequences of SCHIP for Household Well-Being
- Consumer Choice of Plans, Employer Contribution Policy, and Health Plan Price
- Controlling Risk Segmentation under Employment-based Medical Savings Accounts
- Corporate Finance and Consolidation in Health Care
- Cost, Utilization, and Health Effects of Successive Changes in Cesarean Length of Stay Policy
- Cost and Efficiency in Treating High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: The Role of Physician Practice and Health System Factors
- Cost Effectiveness, Quality and the Future of Medical Technology Assessment
- Costs and Benefits of Physician Practices' Interactions with Health Plans
- Creating and Sharing Improved Tools for Policymakers to Assess Risk Adjustment Approaches
- Defensive Medicine as a Response to Medical Malpractice Liability in the United States
- Defining Affordability for the Uninsured and People with Chronic Conditions
- Demonstration of the Subacute Care Alternative
- Developing and Applying a Descriptive Framework for Analyzing Food Safety Resources
- Developing Risk Assessment Tools for Large Employers and Testing Risk Adjustment Approaches in Health Care Purchasing
- Does Hospice Save Medicare Money?
- Does Managed Care Work? An Empirical Study of Corporate Healthcare Cost Containment Initiatives
- Duration Limitations and Adherence to Chronic Medication
- Early Implementation Experience of Companies Offering internet-based Models for Employer Health Benefits
- Economic Impact of Adverse Health Events on the Uninsured Near Elderly
- Effect of Decreased Emergency Department Access on Patient Outcomes
- Effect of State Parity Laws on Children with Mental Health Care Needs
- Effects of a Statewide Perinatal Program for the Uninsured
- Effects of Competition and Rate Regulation on Access to Physician Services and Uncompensated Care
- Effects of Different Mechanisms on Pharmaceutical Use and Cost
- Effects of Physician Compensation Method on Physician Behavior and Satisfaction in Managed Care Organizations
- Effects of Prior Authorization of New Medications among Medicaid Beneficiaries with Bipolar Disorder
- Effects of the Balanced Budget Act and Market Forces on the Health Safety Net
- Efficiency/Quality/Outcome Trade-offs in Medicare's Prospective Payment System
- Enhancing Access to Obstetrical Care: An Evaluation of A Change in Medicaid Payment Policy
- Establishing the Value of Stable Prescription Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries
- Evaluate Selective Contracting for Tertiary Services by Managed Care Organizations
- Evaluating Business Initiatives in Health Care Purchasing
- Evaluating Cost Efficiency of Specialist Physicians
- Evaluating Florida's Medicaid Provider Service Network Demonstration Project
- Evaluating the Medicaid Psychiatric Hospital Payment System in New Hampshire
- Evaluating the Use of Performance-Related Information and Financial Incentives in Employer Health Care Purchasing
- Evaluation of Baltimore's Mental Health Capitation Program
- Evaluation of Defined Contribution Plans on Health Insurance Choice and Medical Care Use
- Evaluation of Maine's Dirigo Health Reform
- Evaluation of Medicare's Local Medical Review Policies for New Medical Technologies
- Evaluation of Natural Experiment to Raise Medicaid Fees for Physicians
- Evaluation of New York City Model to Provide Home Care Services: The Cluster Care Demonstration
- Evaluation of Reforms of the Market for Individual Health Insurance Coverage in New Jersey
- Evaluation of State Initiatives to Expand Health Insurance Among Small Businesses
- Evaluation of State Risk Pools: The Current and Potential Experience
- Evaluation of the Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) Initiative Component Three: An Assessment of the Impact of the Initiative on Health Care Delivery
- Evaluation of the Buyers Health Care Action Group Initiative
- Evaluation of the Effects of Utilization Review on Patterns of Care and Medical Expenses
- Evaluation of the Impact of the Resource Utilization Groups II System on Long-Term Care Facilities in New York
- Evaluation of the Medicare Supplementary Insurance Reform Legislation of 1990
- Evaluation of the TennCare Health Reform Plan
- Evolution of Physician Organization Under Managed Care
- Evolution of Self-Insurance in an Era of Managed Care
- Examining Effective Strategies that Local Communities Have Used to Meet Expanded Public Health Workforce Needs
- Examining the Impact of Informational Messages on Seniors' Choice of Medicare Drug Plans
- Excess Capacity, Hospital Costs, and the Effects of Market Structure
- Exit, Voice and Frailty: Consumer Behavior Under Managed Competition
- Exploration of Market-Based Risk Adjustments for Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
- Extent and Impact of the Use of Observations Stays in the Medicare Program
- Factors Affecting End-of-Life Care for Beneficiaries Who Are Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid
- Factors Associated With Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Children
- Factors Associated with the Distribution of Physician Income: A Quantile Regression Approach
- Financing American Indian Health Care: Impacts and Options for Improving Access and Quality of Care
- Gender and Managed Care
- Geographic Variation in Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Utilization: What is the Role of Physician Practice Patterns?
- Getting Tools Used: Lessons Learned from Successful Decision Support Tools Unrelated to Health Care
- Guaranteed Renewability in Individual and Group Health Insurance: Functioning and Future Prospects
- Health and Economic Consequences of Medicaid Disenrollment in New York City
- Health Care Services for Children Placed in Foster or Kinship Care
- Health Care Utilization Among the Previously Uninsured
- Health Care Utilization Among the Previously Uninsured-- A Feasibility Study
- Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperatives: Analysis of Existing Data
- Health Plan Choice and Utilization: The Role of Plan Attributes
- Health Plan Choices and Adverse Selection in Employer Sponsored InsuranceHealth Plan Choices and Adverse Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
- Health Plan Selection for Medicare Eligible Enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
- Health Savings Accounts, High Deductible Policies, and the Uninsured: Simulating the Effects of HSA Tax Policy
- HIPC Health Risk Adjusters Project
- Hospital Capital Financing in the Era of Quality and Safety: Strategies and Priorities for the Future - A Survey of CEOs
- Hospital Contracting Under Managed Care
- Hospital Mergers and Health Reform: Decreased Competition Versus Community Benefit
- Hospital Ownership and Performance: An Integrative Research Review
- Hospital Ownership Conversions
- Hospital Responses to Competitive and Regulatory Pressures: The Role of Organizational Form in Changing Markets
- Hospital Uncompensated Care Under Managed Care, Competition and Fiscal Pressure
- How Does Fragmentation of Care Contribute to the Costs of Care?
- How Do Rising Healthcare Costs Affect Worker Compensation?
- How Managed Care Growth Has Affected Health Departments’ and Physicians’ Ability to Provide Indigent Care
- How Valid are the Assumptions Underlying Consumer-Driven Health Plans?
- Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Access to Care and Service Use
- Impact of Medicare
- Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions For "Overpriced" Surgical Procedures on Utilization and Access
- Impact of MMA Part D on Medicare Residents in Nursing Homes
- Impact of Physician Compensation Mechanisms on the Process of Care
- Impact of Private Long-term Care Insurance on Demand for Care: Setting and Intensity
- Impact of Profitability on Hospital Responses to Financial Stress
- Impact of State Medicaid Policy Changes on Nursing Home Hospitalization
- Impact of the Medicare Home Health Prospective Payment System on Beneficiaries and Program Costs
- Impact of the Washington State Diabetes Collaborative on Patient Health and Economic Outcomes
- Impact of Various Health System Reform Options on the Distribution of Health Care Costs Across All Payers
- Implementation and Impact of Health Based Risk Adjustment
- Implementing Diagnostic Health Risk Adjustment in an Employed Population -- Phase II
- Implementing Risk-Adjustment for Medicaid
- Improving Access to Improve Quality: Evaluation of an Organizational Innovation
- Incorporating Disparities into State Strategies to Monitor and Improve Health Status
- Information Technologies and the Use of Information in Managed Care
- Informing the Design of Funding Allocation Formulas in Public Health
- Insurance Coverage, Use of Prenatal Care, and the Financing of Birth Outcomes in Nine States Pre and Post Welfare Reform
- Investigation into Specialty Payment: Effects on Cost and Treatments
- Involving Consumers in Physician Choice: Making Data into Useable Information for Chronically Ill Patients in Consumer-Directed Health Plans
- Is Small-Area Variation in Healthcare Utilization Explained by Physician Financial Self-Interest?
- Is the Impact of Managed Care on Hospital Prices Decreasing?
- Liability Problems and Transparent Disclosure to Patients as a Solution
- Local Community Strategies to Develop their Public Health Surge Capacity to Handle Emergencies Affecting Many People
- Local Funding for Health Services in Rural Counties
- Local Public Health Capacities to Address the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
- Long-Term Care Options Planning Project
- Long-Term Care Options Project (Planning Grant)
- Managed Care: Contractual Arrangements with Physicians and Implications for Pediatric Health Care Use
- Managed Care and Medicare Expenditures
- Managed Care’s Spillover Effects on the Quality of Diabetes Care for Medicare Patients
- Market-Based Reforms and the Quality of Hospital Care in New Jersey
- Market Forces in Investor-Owned Health Maintenance Organizations
- Measuring Managed Care Activity
- Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service
- Measuring the Costs of Defensive Medicine in the United States: Phase II
- Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems
- Medicaid Eligibility Expansions for Pregnant Women, 1986-1990: Evaluating the Aggressiveness of States' Implementation
- Medicaid Long-Term Care Programs: Simulating Rate Setting and Cross-Payer Effects
- Medicaid Managed Care and Health Care Access, Use, and Quality
- Medical Malpractice Reform and Implications for Health Insurance Costs
- Medical Risk Distribution Among Competing Health Plans
- Medical Spending and Health of the Elderly
- Medicare Health Plan Decisions: Will Regional Competitive Bidding Work?
- Medicare Policy and Aging in the US and Canada
- Medicare Risk-Contracting: Impact on Access and Quality for Medicare HMO Enrollees and Vulnerable Populations
- Medicare Spending, Disparities, and Returns to Healthy Behaviors
- Meeting the Future Long-Term Care Needs of the Baby Boomers: How the Changing Structure of Families Will Affect Paid Helpers and Institutions
- Methods to Present Quality Information to Assist Consumers to Make Health Plan Decisions
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Massachusetts's Chapter 495
- Monitoring the Early Experience with Federal Health Insurance Tax Credits
- National Security and Child Health: Reexamining the Role of Medicaid and EPSDT
- New Approaches to Identifying Market Power in Health Care
- New York State ProNet (Prospectively Paid Health Network)
- Older American's Health Insurance: Emerging Concerns
- Patterns of Individual Coverage
- Paying Physician Group Practices for Quality: A Regional Natural Experiment
- Peer Pressure: Hospital Ownership Mix and Medical Service Provision
- Physician-Organization Arrangements: Impact on Integration and Managed Care
- Physician Compensation & Risk Bearing Arrangements in Medical Groups: Market Level Effects and Impacts on Physician Productivity and Risk Contracting
- Physician Compensation and Risk-Bearing Arrangements in Medical Groups: Impact on Physician Productivity
- Physician Responses to HMO Growth
- Physician Response to Medicare Payment Reductions: Impacts on the Public and Private Sectors
- Physicians' Responses to Variations in Medicare Fees for Specific Services
- Pilot Study of Variations in Medicare Spending per Beneficiary
- Preferences, Choices, and Managed Care Markets: Determinants of Consumer Trust and Satisfaction
- Premium Variation and Insurance Demand in the Individual Insurance Market
- Prescription Benefit Comprehensiveness and Costs of Care in Elderly Persons with Chronic Illness: The Medicare Enrollee Drug Study (MEDS)
- Private Insurance Markets: The Missing Link-Association Health Plans and Other Pooled Purchasing Arrangements
- Promoting Readiness and Interest in Self Management
- Public Health Entrepreneurship
- Public Health Funding and Population Health
- Public Health System Organization and Performance in Rural Communities
- Quality Assessment of South Carolina Medicaid Managed Care
- Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Care Among the Insured
- Reforming Medicare Risk Payment Through Competitive Market Forces
- Reimbursement Policy and Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment and Outcomes
- Research on Determinants of Hospital Contracts with HMOs
- Research on Risk Selection in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance
- Research on the Effect of Community Variability on Financing Strategy Effectiveness
- Research on the Governance and Management of Collective Purchasing Arrangements Under Managed Competition
- Research on the Impact of Physician Competition on Health Care Utilization
- Research on the Relationship Between Market Characteristics and the Number and Type of Medicare Enrollees in HMOs
- Resource Use and Efficiency in Episodes of Care
- Second-Generation Evaluation of Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG)
- Single Payer Demonstration Project
- Small Area Variation in Medicaid Utilization and Expenditures: Implications for Cost Containment and Quality of Care
- Sources of Health Care Cost Growth
- State Experience with Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs
- State Health Policy and the State of American Medicine
- Strategies to Reduce Health Care Providers’ Administrative Burden Related to Quality Performance Measurement and Reporting
- Structural Capacities, Processes and Performance of Essential Public Health Services by Small Local Public Health Systems
- Studies of the Working Uninsured, Their Dependents and Insurance Reform on Their Behalf
- Study of the Effects of High-Deductible Health Plans on Families with Chronic Conditions
- Study on Informed Choice of Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries
- Survey to Begin Assessment of HIPC Risk Adjustment Mechanism
- Surviving the Perfect Storm: Impacts of Benefit Reductions and Increased Cost Sharing in a Medicaid Program
- Sustaining Individual Health Insurance Markets Under Community Rating and Open Enrollment
- Testing the Value of Patient-reported Physician Quality Information for Quality Improvement and Consumer Choice
- The Anatomy of ERISA Health Plans: Describing their Basic Structure and Key Areas of Variation
- The Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology: Computerized Physician Order Entry
- The Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage: 1996 to 2000
- The Dynamics of Spells Without Health Insurance
- The Economics of Health Information Technology in Physician Organizations
- The Effect of a Physician Gatekeeper on the Cost of, Access to, and Quality of Care in an Employed Population
- The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Coverage to Poor Uninsured Women on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
- The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Coverage to Poor Uninsured Women on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes -- Planning Grant
- The Effect of Hospital Mergers on HMO Hospital Costs and Premiums, 1995-2001
- The Effect of Local Hospital Networks on the Cost and Accessibility of Hospital Services
- The Effect of Managed Care on Treatment Patterns and Health Outcomes Among Traditional Medicare Patients
- The Effect of Price on Health Plan Choices of Retirees
- The Effects of Any Willing Provider Laws
- The Effects of Health Plan Concentration on Hospital Prices, Costs, Capacity, Charity Care, and Outcomes
- The Effects of Managed Care on MRI Adoption and Use
- The Effects of Managed Care Organizations on Government Spending and Health Care Quality: Evidence from California’s Medicaid Mandates
- The Effects of PPOs on Health Care Use and Costs
- The Effects of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 on Health Services Accessibility and Efficiency
- The Emerging Market for Pharmacogenomics and Health Care Competition
- The Fishing Partnership Health Plan: A Model for Reducing the Numbers of the Working Uninsured
- The Impact of Assisted Living Growth on the Market for Nursing Home Care
- The Impact of Managed Behavioral Health Market Share, Public Sector Carve-Outs, and Parity Legislation on Service Utilization for Children and Adolescents: Results from NSAF and CTS
- The Impact of Managed Care on the Appropriateness and Outcomes of Carotid Endarterectomy
- The Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Prenatal Use and Birth Outcomes
- The Impact of Multiple Consumer Driven Health Plans Beyond Early Adoption: Here to Stay or Market Fad?
- The Impact of Nonprofit Conversions on Community Benefit
- The Impact of Pay for Performance on Hospitals that Care for Minorities and the Poor
- The Impact of Performance Reporting on Consumer and Physician Organization Behavior
- The Impact of Pharmaceutical Formularies on Prescription Drug and Health Care Costs and Utilization
- The Impact of Quality Information on Consumer Plan Choices: Does Health Status Matter?
- The Impact of the Prospective Payment System on Nursing Home Care
- The Impacts of Undocumented Immigrants on the U.S. Health Care System
- The Incidence of Financing National Health Spending
- The Influence of Accreditation on Local Health Department Performance in NC
- The Influence of Managed Care on Physician Scope of Practice
- The Kaiser Permanente Medicare Demonstration: Policy Implications of Offering a Dual Option Benefit Package in an HMO
- The Medicaid Undercount: Real or Perceived Bias in Estimates of Coverage in General Population Surveys
- The Painful Prescription: Revisited
- The Provision and Reporting of Community Benefits by Hospitals: Lessons from Maryland
- The Relationship Between Market Forces and the Cost, Treatments and Outcomes of Medicare AMI Patients
- The Rise in Employer Health Care Costs -- Phase 1
- The Rise in Employer Health Costs -- Phase 2
- The Role of Benefit Design in Enrollment, Use and Spending in State Prescription Drug Assistance Programs for Seniors - Lessons for Medicare
- The Safety Net and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
- The Transformation of Corporate Health Care Purchasing
- The Treatment of Dying Medicare Managed Care Patients: The Role of Social and Economic Factors
- Trauma System Structure and Performance
- Trends in Medigap Insurance and the Impact of Recent Market and Regulatory Changes
- Understanding and Assessing Partnership Connections in Public Health Departments
- Understanding Medical Necessity Decision Making
- Understanding the Resource Allocation Decisions of Public Health Officials in the U.S.
- Uninsured in America: Individual and Community Factors
- Uptake and Impact of Health Risk Appraisals
- Use of Tiered Networks by Employer Sponsored Health Plans
- Using Physician Profiling Software to Evaluate the Practice Efficiency of Physician Specialists
- Utilization Review: Cost Savings and Quality of Care
- Variation in Health Care Cost Growth
- Waiting for Outpatient Care and Choice in Financing
- Web Links
- When Doctors Believe They Are Not Providing Good Care: The Sources of Professional Distress in the American Health Care System
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