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RAND Health Care Featured Projects

Can the 24/7 Sobriety Program Reduce Problem Drinking and Improve Public Health?
The 24/7 Sobriety Program requires those arrested for or convicted of alcohol-related offenses to take twice-a-day breathalyzer tests or wear a continuous alcohol monitoring bracelet. Those who fail or skip their tests are immediately subject to swift, certain but modest sanctions—typically a day or two in jail.
40 Years of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
2016 marked the 40th anniversary of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), the largest health policy study in U.S. history.
Analyses Related to Medicare Advantage and Part D Contract Star Ratings
RAND researchers are conducting analyses to further enhance the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Star Ratings system and assisting with the annual calculation of Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Contract Star Ratings.
Building Data Capacity to Study Health Equity for Patient Centered Outcomes Research
To advance the health equity aspect of PCOR data capacity, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), with support from the RAND Corporation, is is sponsoring a call for papers and conducting a scientific symposium.
CAHPS®
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Study is an innovative effort to develop tools for surveying people about their health care experiences and reporting results to help consumers make better health-related decisions.
CalMHSA: Evaluation of California's Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Initiatives
RAND is evaluating California's statewide prevention and early intervention programs, which aim to reduce negative outcomes for people experiencing mental illness.
Collaboration Leading to Addiction Treatment and Recovery from Other Stresses (CLARO) Project
The CLARO project studies collaborative care as a treatment approach for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Connections to Care
The Connections to Care (C2C) program integrates mental health supports into social service agencies working with low-income New Yorkers. RAND researchers assessed the cost and impact of C2C and made recommendations for effective and efficient implementation.
Getting To Outcomes® (GTO) Toolkit
The Getting To Outcomes®: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention project assesses the effectiveness of participatory methods meant to assist community coalitions in preventing substance abuse and to improve community health.
Hospital Price Transparency Study
Using claims data from private health plans, RAND researchers measured hospital prices in the United States and compared these prices to Medicare pricing for the same services.

Archived Projects

These studies have ended and are not updated, but their website content is still available.