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Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries - 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
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
Health Care Markets, the Safety Net, and Utilization of Care among the Uninsured - 2007
Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California - 2007
Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability - 2007
Language Access Services for Latinos with Limited English Proficiency: Lessons Learned from Hablamos Juntos - 2007
The Role of Product Design in Consumers' Choices in the Individual insurance Market - 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
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
Dimensions of the Local Health Care Environment and Use of Care by Uninsured Children in Rural and Urban Areas - 2006
Effects of Family Structure on Children's Use of Ambulatory Visits and Prescription Medications - 2006
Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence from Three States - 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
The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet? - 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
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
The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet? - 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 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
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
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
Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research - 2003
Sampling Patients Within Physician Practices and Health Plans: Multistage Cluster 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's Drug Spending -- But Employees Don't Get the Savings - 2002
The Determinants of HMO's Contracting with Hospitals for Bypass Surgery - 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
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
The Cost of Cancer Treatment Study's Design and Methods - 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
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
The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization - 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
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 Lower Surgical Fees on the Use of Physician Services Under Medicare - 1993
Effects of the Relative Fee Structure on the Use of Surgical Operations - 1993
Medicare Patients' Use of Overpriced Procedures Before and After the 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
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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