We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...
The patient-centered medical home model aspires to fundamentally restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid program ...
Darius Lakdawalla ([email protected]) is the director of research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dana Goldman is chair and director of health economics, ...
We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...
Commercial health plans pay higher prices than public payers for hospital care, which accounts for more than 5 percent of US gross domestic product. Crafting effective policy responses requires ...
Bradley Strunk is a consulting health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC); he is located in Greenbelt, Maryland. Paul Ginsburg ([email protected]) is president of HSC in ...
Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...
Neeraj Sood ([email protected]) is an economist at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Han de Vries is a policy analyst at RAND Europe in Cambridge, England. Italo Gutierrez is a doctoral student in ...
Ashvin Gandhi ([email protected]) is an assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, in Los Angeles, California. Huizi Yu is an undergraduate student ...
Hak-Ju Kim is chair and assistant professor of social welfare in the Department of Social Welfare at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea. Jennifer Prah Ruger ([email protected]) is an assistant ...
Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...
At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...