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Cost Implications of ACGME's 2011 Changes to Resident Duty Hours and the Training Environment - 2012

Take-up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children - 2012

The Women's Health Initiative: The Food Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Blood Pressure - 2012

Collection Of Race And Ethnicity Data By Health Plans Has Grown Substantially, But Opportunities Remain To Expand Efforts - 2011

Medicare's Bundled Payment Pilot for Acute and Postacute Care:: Analysis and Recommendations on Where to Begin - 2011

Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home? - 2011

Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research - 2011

Racial/ethnic Differences in US Health Behaviors: A Decomposition Analysis - 2011

Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Inpatient Rehabilitation Care Under Prospective Payment - 2010

Estimating and Mapping Health Literacy in the State of Missouri - 2010

Medicare Spending and Outcomes After Postacute Care for Stroke and Hip Fracture - 2010

Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Biological 'Wear and Tear' in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults - 2010

Response to McWilliams Commentary: Assessing the Health Effects of Medicare Coverage for Previously Uninsured Adults: A Matter of Life and Death? - 2010

Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research - 2010

Developing Predictive Models of Health Literacy - 2009

Do Patients Bypass Rural Hospitals? Determinants of Inpatient Hospital Choice in Rural California - 2009

Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries - 2009

Neighborhoods and Cumulative Biological Risk Profiles By Race/ethnicity in a National Sample of U.S. Adults: NHANES III - 2009

Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: A Powerful Policy Lever to Use with Care - 2009

Rural Hospitals Struggle to Attract Patients and Remain Viable - 2009

When Drug Cost-Sharing Increases, Patients Newly Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness Delay Starting Medication - 2009

Do Neighborhood Economic Conditions Influence the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables? - 2008

Does Place Explain Racial Health Disparities? Quantifying the Contribution of Residential Context to the Black/white Health Gap in the United States - 2008

Immigrants and Health Care: A Complex Picture - 2008

Did the Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Result in Changes in Relative Patient Severity and Relative Resource Use? - 2007

Does Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Differ By Gender for Enrollees in Managed Care Plans? - 2007

Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma - 2007

Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California - 2007

Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability - 2007

Individual's Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length - 2007

Language Access Services for Latinos with Limited English Proficiency: Lessons Learned from Hablamos Juntos - 2007

Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans - 2007

Socioeconomic and Racial/ethnic Differences in the Discussion of Cancer Screening: between- versus within- physician differences - 2007

The Role of Product Design in Consumers' Choices in the Individual Insurance Market - 2007

Changes in Patient Severity Following Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System - 2006

Consumer Decision Making in the Individual Health Insurance Market - 2006

Consumer Decisionmaking in the Insurance Market - 2006

Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence from Three States - 2006

Impact of Instructional Practices on Student Satisfaction with Attendings' Teaching in the Inpatient Component of Internal Medicine Clerkships - 2006

Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements - 2005

Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Blood Lead Levels Among Mexican-American Children and Adolescents in the United States - 2005

Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Access to Post-Acute Care - 2005

Health Care Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured - 2005

How Cost Sharing Affects Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill - 2005

How Does Race Matter, Anyway? - 2005

How Much Is Postacute Care Use Affected By Its Availability? - 2005

Is the Individual Market More Than a Bridge Market? An Analysis of Disenrollment Decisions - 2005

Predictors of Surgery Resident Satisfaction with Teaching By Attendings: A National Survey - 2005

Prospects for Change in the Individual Health Insurance Market - 2005

Residency Work-Hours Reform: A Cost Analysis Including Preventable Adverse Events - 2005

The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet? - 2005

Use of Geocoding in Managed Care Settings to Identify Quality Disparities - 2005

Assessing the Influence of Incentives on Physician and Medical Groups: A Comment - 2004

Changes in Racial Differences in Use of Medical Procedures and Diagnostic Tests Among Elderly Persons: 1986-1997 - 2004

Effect of Primary Care Visits on the Demand for Specialty Care in Health Maintenance Organizations - 2004

How Much is Post-Acute Care Use Affected by its Availability? - 2004

Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction - 2004

Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What Are the Causes? - 2004

Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs By the Chronically Ill - 2004

Predictors for Medical Students Entering a General Surgery Residency: National Survey Results - 2004

Recent Trends and Geographic Variation in the Safety Net - 2004

Sociodemographic Differences in Use of Preventive Services By Women Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans - 2004

Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population - 2004

Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care - 2004

Specificity and Sensitivity of Claims-Based Algorithms for Identifying Members of Medicare+choice Health Plans That Have Chronic Medical Conditions - 2004

Subsidies and the Demand for Individual Health Insurance in California - 2004

The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet? - 2004

Updated Variable-Radius Measures of Hospital Competition: Data and Documentation - 2004

Updated Variable-Radius Measures of Hospital Competition - 2004

Use of Preventive Services by Men Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans - 2004

Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditure for Physicians' Services - 2003

Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services - 2003

Incremental Treatment Costs in National Cancer Institute-sponsored Clinical Trials - 2003

Managing Care: Utilization Review in Action at Two Capitated Medical Groups; Prospective Denials of Coverage on Grounds of Medical Necessity Are Only a Small Part of the Overall Picture - 2003

Methods for Using Medicare Data to Compare Procedure Rates Among Asians, Black, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites - 2003

Participation of Patients 65 Years of Age or Older in Cancer Clinical Trials - 2003

Patterns of Care for Open-Angle Glaucoma in Managed Care - 2003

Practice Characteristics and HMO Enrollee Satisfaction and Speciality Care: An Analysis of Patients with Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy - 2003

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Public and Private Medical Care Expenditures Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries - 2003

Sampling Patients Within Physician Practices and Health Plans: Multistage Cluster Samples in Health Services Research - 2003

Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research - 2003

Trends and Variability in Individual Insurance Products in California: Despite Changes in Insurance Products Available Between 1997 and 2002, the Actuarial Value of Coverage Has Remained Nearly Constant - 2003

Characteristics of Eye Care Practices with Managed Care Contracts - 2002

Compliance Among Pharmacies in California with a Prescription-Drug Discount Program for Medicare Beneficiaries - 2002

Cost Sharing Cuts Employers' Drug Spending -- But Employees Don't Get the Savings - 2002

Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs - 2002

Hospital Care for the Uninsured in Miami-Dade County: Hospital Finance and Patient Travel Patterns - 2002

Improving Access to Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries: Can State Law Help? - 2002

Initial Practice Locations of International Medical Graduates - 2002

Personal Choices of Health Plans By Managed Care Experts - 2002

Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Behavioral Factors Affecting Hispanic Health Outcomes - 2002

The Determinants of HMO's Contracting with Hospitals for Bypass Surgery - 2002

Health Maintenance Organizations and the Changing Physician Workforce - 2001

Measuring the Incremental Cost of Clinical Cancer Research - 2001

Medical Care Expenditures Under Gatekeeper and Point-of-Service Arrangements - 2001

Using Hospital Tumor Registries to Identify Research Subjects - 2001

Expenditures for Physician Services Under Alternative Models of Managed Care - 2000

HMO Growth and the Geographical Redistribution of Generalist and Specialist Physicians, 1987-1997 - 2000

HMO Penetration and the Geographic Mobility of Practicing Physicians - 2000

Race and Sex Differences in the Management of Coronary Artery Disease - 2000

The Cost of Cancer Treatment Study's Design and Methods - 2000

The Effect of HMO Penetration on Physician Retirement - 2000

Visits to Primary Care Physicians and to Specialists Under Gatekeeper and Point-of-Service Arrangements - 2000

Association of Dialyzer Reuse and Hospitalization Rates Among Hemodialysis Patients in the US - 1999

Association of Dialyzer Reuse with Hospitalization and Survival Rates Among U.S. Hemodialysis Patients: Do Comorbidities Matter? - 1999

Cost Functions for Dialysis Facilities and the Quality of Dialysis - 1999

Equity in Managed Care for Mental Disorders - 1999

Financial Incentives and Drug Spending in Managed Care: Incentives for Both Physicians and Patients Can Interact to Help Curb Spending in This Increasingly Costly Sector - 1999

Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain - 1999

Self-reported Physician Specialties and the Primary Care Content of Medical Practice: A Study of the AMA Physician Masterfile - 1999

The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization - 1999

Diagnostic Coding and Medical Rehabilitation Length of Stay: Their Relationship - 1998

Health Maintenance Organization Penetration and the Practice Location Choices of New Physicians - 1998

Indications for and Outcomes of Cholecystectomy: A Comparison of the Pre and Postlaparoscopic Eras - 1998

Physician Opportunity Costs in Physician Practice Cost Functions - 1998

Development of Function-Related Groups Version 2.0: A Classification System for Medical Rehabilitation - 1997

How Practicing Surgeons Trained for Laparoscopic Cholycystectomy - 1997

Quality Assessment in Contracting for Tertiary Care Services By HMOs: A Case Study of Three Markets - 1997

Segmentation of Hospital Markets: Where Do HMO Enrollees Get Care? - 1997

Effect of Dialyzer Reuse on Survival of Patients Treated with Hemodialysis - 1996

Externalities in Hospitals and Physician Adoption of a New Surgical Technology: An Exploratory Analysis - 1996

Survival of Medicare Patients After Enrollment in Hospice Programs - 1996

Using Physician Practice Cost Functions in Payment Policy: The Problem of Endogeneity Bias - 1996

Diffusion of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Among General Surgeons in the United States - 1995

Falling Cholecystectomy Thresholds Since the Introduction of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - 1995

A Case-Mix Classification System for Medical Rehabilitation - 1994

Hospital Adoption of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - 1994

Revised Estimates of Diagnostic Test Sensitivity and Specificity in Suspected Biliary Tract Disease - 1994

Using Medicare Claims for Outcomes Research - 1994

Effects of the Relative Fee Structure on the Use of Surgical Operations - 1993

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. - 1993

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. - 1993

Racial Differences in the Elderly's Use of Medical Procedures and Diagnostic Tests - 1993

Would Eliminating Differences in Physician Practice Style Reduce Geographic Variations in Cataract Surgery Rates? - 1993

Assessing Physicians' Estimates of the Probability of Coronary Artery Disease: The Influence of Patient Characteristics - 1992

Explaining the Association Between Surgeon Supply and Utilization - 1992

Geographic Variation in Relative Fees Under Medicare - 1991

Impact of the Medicare Fee Schedule on an Academic Department of Medicine - 1991

Admission Source to the Medical Intensive Care Unit Predicts Hospital Death Independent of APACHE II Score - 1990

Hyporeninemic Hypoaldosteronism in a Patient with Cirrhosis and Ascites - 1986

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