RAND's Health Insurance Experiment (HIE)
Bibliography of HIE Publications
External Bibliography
Site Selection for a Health Insurance Experiment.
1972. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-1095-OEO).
Nonmonetary Factors in the Demand for Medical Services: Some Empirical Evidence
Journal of Political Economy 83:595-614, 1975.
Payment Incentives in a Social Experiment.
1979. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. P-6410).
The Need and Demand for Periodontal Services: Implications for Dental Practice and Education
1988. Journal of Dental Education, 52:458-462.
The Effect of Cost Sharing on the Quality of Dental Care
1984. Journal of Dental Education, 48:597-604.
Dental Insurance and the Oral Health of Preschool Children
1986. Journal of the American Dental Association, 11 3:773-776.
Is Periodontal Disease the Primary Cause of Tooth Extraction in Adults?
1987. Journal of the American Dental Association, 114:40-45.
Quality Assurance Mechanisms in the United States: From There to Where?
1975. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. P-5520).
Quality of Care and Episodes of Respiratory Illness among Medicaid Patients in New Mexico
1980. Annals of Internal Medicine, 92:99-106.
Quality of Care Assessment: Its Role in the 1980s
198l. American Journal of Public Health, (editorial). 71:681-682.
The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment.
1981. Review of Avedis Donabedian, Health Services Research 16 (Summer).
Second Opinion Programs: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analyses
1982. Medical Care, (editorial). 20:1-2.
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-Crossing Research
1985. Medical Care, 23:710-722.
Will We Need to Ration Effective Health Care?
1986. Issues in Science and Technology, 3:68-77.
Assessment of Medical Care
1976. New England Journal of Medicine, (letter to the editor). 295:118.
Use, Costs, and Quality of Medical Services: Impact of the New Mexico Peer Review System
1978. Annals of Internal Medicine, 89:256-263.
Does Free Care Improve Adults' Health?
1984. New England Journal of Medicine, 310:1468-70. (Response to letters to editor.)
Quality of Ambulatory Care: Epidemiology and Comparison by Insurance Status and Income
1990. Medical Care 28:392-410.
Simulating Health Expenditures Under Alternative Insurance Plans
1991. Management Science, 37:1067-90.
A New Method of Power Approximation with Application to the Wilcoxon Statistics
1984. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 11:29-37.
Factors Affecting Laboratory Test Use and Prices
1984. Health Care Financing Review, 5(4):23-32.
Oral Health Status and Use of Dental Services: Will Improved Health Lead to Decreased Demand?
1985. Journal of Dental Education, 49:427-433.
Consumer Acceptance of Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Medical Care: Results from a Controlled Trial
1986. Health Services Research, 21:429-452.
The Measurement of Social Support
1984. Research in Community and Mental Health, In ed. J. F. Greenley. Westport, Conn.: JAI Press.
Smearing Estimate: A Nonparametric Retransformation Method
1983. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78:605-610.
Choosing Between the Sample-Selection Model and the Multi-Part Model
1984. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2:283 -289.
Comments on Selectivity Bias (Response to G. S. Maddala)
1986. Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, In ed. Richard Scheffler and Louis Rossiter. Vol. 6. Westport, Conn.: JAI Press.
The Episodes-of-Illness Processing System.
1981. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. N-1745-HHS).
Childhood Enuresis: Prevalence, Perceived Impact, and Prescribed Treatments
1986. Pediatrics, 76:482-487.
Chronic Bronchitis: Prevalence, Smoking Habits, Impact, and Antismoking Advice
1986. Preventive Medicine, 15:624-631.
An Empirical Study of the Differences Between Family and Individual Deductibles in Health Insurance
1977. Inquiry, 14:269-277.
How Cost Sharing Reduced Medical Spending of Participants in the Health Insurance Experiment
1983. JAMA, 249:2220-22.
The Demand for Episodes of Treatment in the Health Insurance Experiment
1988. Journal of Health Economics, 7:301-422.
Markov and Other Models of Episodes of Mental Health Treatment
1988. Advances in Health Economics and Health Services, In ed. Richard Scheffler and Louis Rossiter. Vol. 8. Westport, Conn.: JAI Press.
Effects of Cost Sharing on Physiological Health, Health Practices, and Worry
1987. Health Services Research, 22:279-306.
The External Costs of a Sedentary Life Style
1989. American Journal of Public Health, 79:975-981.
Health Status Assessment in the Health Insurance Study
1974. Inquiry, 11:40-52.
Preventive Health Care for Children and Cost Containment: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Phoenix, Arizona, October 28-30, 1984.
1985. "Research and Development and Its Role in Policy Development." In Washington, D.C.: Center for Policy Research and National Governors Association.
Substitution between Prescribed and Over-the-Counter Medicines.
1989. Medical Care, 27:85-94.
The Response of Births to Changes in Health Care Costs.
1990. Journal of Human Resources, 25:697-711.
Test Reduction
1980b. British Medical Journal, (letter to the editor). 281:1285.
Concepts and Tools for an Effective Quality-Assurance Program
1985. Health Management Quarterly, Spring: 2-5, 17.
Professional Peer Review in a 'Competitive' Medical Market
1985-86. Case Western Reserve Law Review, 36:1175-89.
Quality Assurance and Clinical Pharmacy: Lessons from Medicine
1981. Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy, 15:758-765.
Preventive Care: Do We Practice What We Preach?
1987. American Journal of Public Health, 77:801-804.
How Free Care Improved Vision in the Health Insurance Experiment.
1989. American Journal of Public Health, 79:640-642.
The Effect of Psychological Distress and Psychological Well-Being on the Use of Medical Services.
1992. Medical Care, 30:541-553.
Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services Over Time in a Health Maintenance Organization and Fee-for-Service Plans.
1987. American Journal of Psychiatry, 144:283-287.
A Two-Part Model of the Demand for Medical Care: Preliminary Results from the Health Insurance Study
1981. Health, Economics, and Health Economics, In ed. Jacques van der Gaag and Mark Perlman. Amsterdam: North Holland. Also available in Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-2705-HHS).
Cost Sharing and the Use of Ambulatory Mental Health Services
1984. American Psychologist, 39:1077-89.
A Response to Drs. Ellis and McGuire
1984.American Psychologist, 39:1197-99.
How Cost Sharing Affects the Use of Ambulatory Mental Health Services
1986. JAMA, 256:1930-34.
Health Insurance and the Demandfor Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment.
1987. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-3476-HHS). Abridged version published in American Economic Review, 77:251-277.
Record Check Validity of Survey Responses: A Reassessment of Bias in Reports of Hospitalizations.
Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-2319).
Adverse Selection with a Multiple Choice Among Health Insurance Plans: A Simulation Analysis.
1992. Journal of Health Economics, 11:129-151.
Subsidies and National Health Care Reform: The Effect on Workers' Demand for Health Insurance Coverage
1992. Health Benefits and the Workforce., In Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Change in Medical Provider: A Causal Analysis of the Consequences of Patient Dissatisfaction
1985. Advances in Consumer Research, 12. Westport, Conn.: JAI Press.
Health Status and Health Care Use of Uninsured Workers
1992. Health Benefits and the Workforce., In Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Price Elasticity and Adverse Selection in the Demand for Supplementary Health Insurance
1987. Economic Inquiry, 25 (April):299-313.
Strategies for Financing National Health Insurance: Who Wins and Who Loses
1976. New England Journal of Medicine, 295:866-871.
A Finite Selection Model for Experimental Design of the Health Insurance Study.
1979. Journal of Econometrics, 11:43-61.
Do Families Get Family Care?
1987. Journal of the American Medical Association, 257:1912-15.
A Design for a Health Insurance Experiment
1974. Inquiry, 11:5-27.
The Health Insurance Study: A Summary.
1974. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-965-1-OEO).
The Health Insurance Study: Response to Hester and Leveson
1974. Inquiry, 11:236-241.
Comments on Evaluation of Social Experiments
1976. The Evaluation of Social Programs, In ed. Clark Abt. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research,
1981b. "The Erosion of the Medical Marketplace." In vol. 2, ed. Richard Scheffler, Westport, Conn.: JAI Press. Nontechnical version published as "The Structure of Health Insurance and the Erosion of Competition in the Medical Marketplace," in Competition in the Health Care Sector: Past, Present, Future, ed. Warren Greenberg, Germantown, Md.: Aspen Systems Corporation, 1978; nontechnical version reprinted in Profile of Medical Practice 1979, Chicago: American Medical Association.
Competition in Health Care.
1982a. "Assessing the Impact of Cost Sharing in Health Care Utilization and Expenditures: Interim Results from the Rand Study." In National Health Policy Forum, Washington, D.C.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1982. "A Summary of the RAND Health Insurance Study." 387:111-114.
Project Evaluation
1986. "Using Social Science Experiments to Improve the Appraisal of Social Programs." 1:39-42.
Free for All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
1993.
The Impact of Health Insurance on the Health Services Sector,
1976. "New Estimates of Price and Income Elasticities for Medical Care Services." In ed. Richard Rosett. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
A Controlled Trial in Dental and Medical Insurance.
1983. Journal of the American Dental Association, 106:173-177.
Are Fee-for-Service Costs Increasing Faster than HMO Costs?
1985. Medical Care, 23:960-966.
The Findings of the Rand Health Insurance Experiment--A Response to Welch et al.
1987. Medical Care, 25:157-179.
Health Care Financing Review
1989. "Adjusting Capitation Rates Using Objective Health Measures and Prior Utilization." 10(3):41-54.
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Quality Assurance Programs
1976. Quality Assurance in Health Care, In ed. Paul Gertman and Richard Egdahl. New York: Aspen Systems.
The Role of Health Insurance in the Health Services Sector,
1976. "The Demand for Reimbursement Insurance." In ed. Richard N. Rosett. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Illness Prevention and Medical Insurance
1978. Journal of Human Resources, 13 (Suppl.):183-207.
Social Security Bulletin
1972. "The Effects of Coinsurance: A Multivariate Analysis." 35(6):20-29.
The Effects of Coinsurance on Demandfor Physician Services.
1972. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-976-OEO).
Coinsurance, the Price of Time, and the Demand for Medical Services
1974. Review of Economics and Statistics, 56:334-342. Revised version published as Coinsurance and the Demand for Medical Services, Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-964-l-OEO).
Collecting Evaluation Data: Problems and Solutions,
1985. "Measuring Unfiled Claims in the Health Insurance Experiment." In ed. Leigh Burstein, Howard E. Freeman, and Peter H. Rossi. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Use of Survey Questions to Measure Presence of Visual Impairment: Findings from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment.
1983. American Journal of Public Health, 73:1331-32.
Psychosocial Characteristics of Candidates for the Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy (PERK) Study
1984. Archives of Ophthalmology, 102:1187-92.
Effects of Cost Sharing on Seeking Care for Serious and Minor Symptoms: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
1986. Annals of Internal Medicine, 104:246-251.
A Community-Based Study of the Use of Chiropractic Services
199 1. American Journal of Public Health, 81:439-442.
The Role of Social Supports and Life Stress Events in Use of Mental Health Services
1988. Social Science and Medicine, 27:1393-1400.
Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans
1986. New England Journal of Medicine, 315:1259-66.
Use of the Hospital in a Randomized Trial of Prepaid Care.
1988. Journal of the American Medical Association, 259:1343-46.
The Reliability and Validity of Self-Reported Weight and Height.
1982. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 35:295-309.
The Meaning of Health: Understanding Functional Limitations
1977. Medical Care, 15:939-952.
Advances in the Measurement of Functional Status: Construction of Aggregate Indexes
1981. Medical Care, 19:473-488.
Consequences of Cost Sharing for Children's Health
1985. Pediatrics, 75:952-961.
Malpractice and the Quality of Care
1978. Annals of Internal Medicine, (editorial). 88:836-837.
Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Children's Health
1986. Pediatrics 77:124-128.
Values and Long-Term Care,
1982. "Measuring Health and Health-Care Outcomes: Issues and Recommendations." In ed. R. L. Kane. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath/Lexington Books.
The Structure of Psychological Distress and Well-Being in General Populations.
1983. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 51:730-742.
Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy
1981. "How to Survey Patient Satisfaction." 15:892-899.
Monte Carlo Evidence on the Choice Between Sample Selection and Two-Part Models.
1987. Journal of Econometrics, 35:59-82.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Systems Science in Health Care,
1984. "Preventive Medical Care and Its Consequences: The Effect of a Randomly Assigned Physical Examination." In ed. W. van Eimeren, R. Engelbrecht, and Charles Flagle. New York: Springer Verlag.
The Taxes of Sin: Do Smokers and Drinkers Pay Their Way?
1989b. Journal of the American Medical Association, 261:1604-09.
The Distributive Impact of a Medicare Catastrophic Benefit
1982a. Economics of Health Care, In ed. Jacques van der Gaag, William B. Neenan, and Theodore Tsukahara. New York: Praeger.
Evaluation and Program Planning
1983. "Behavioral Consequences of Consumer Dissatisfaction with Medical Care." 6:291-297.
Evaluation and Program Planning
1983. "Defining and Measuring Patient Satisfaction with Medical Care." 6:247-263.
A Comparison of the Effects of Sociodemographic Factors and Health Status on Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services in HMO and Fee-for-Service Plans
1986. Medical Care, 24:949-960.
Use of Mental Health Services in HMO and Fee-for-Service Plans--Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
1986. Health Services Research, 21:453-474.
Health Status and the Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services.
1984. American Psychologist, 39:1090- 1 100.
The Sensitivity of Mental Health Use Estimates to Methods Effects.
1984. Medical Care, 22:783-788.
Rand Master Input Tape (RMIT): Description.
1978. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. RCC-1550/11).
Prepaid Group Practice Effects on the Utilization of Medical Services and Health Outcomes for Children: Results from a Controlled Trial
1989. Pediatrics, 83:168-180.
Rand Master Input Tape Generator System (RMITGEN): System Description.
1978. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. RCC-1550/12).
Rand Master Input Tape Generator System (RMITGEN): User's Manual.
1979. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. RCC-1550/13).
A Summary of Cost Sharing and the Demand for Ambulatory Mental Health Services
1985. Professional Psychologist, 9:1-3, 22-23.
1990. "Patterns of Outpatient Mental Health Care Over Time: Some Implications for Estimates of Demand and for Benefit Design." 24:773-790.
Sociodemographic Factors and Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services
1986. Medical Care 24:75-85.
Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services by a General Population with Health Insurance Coverage
1986. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 37:1119-25.
Cost Sharing and Use of General Medical Providers for Outpatient Mental Health Care.
1987. Health Services Research, 22:1-18.
A Model of Mental Health, Life Events, and Social Supports Applicable to General Populations.
1981. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 22:324-336.
Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly: Health and Society
1975. "Foreign Medical Graduates and Their Impact on the Quality of Medical Care in the United States." 53:549-581. Also available from Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (Pub. no. R-1698-HEW), 1976.
Quality Measurement and Assurance: A Literature Review
1978. Health and Medical Care Services Review, 3:1, 3 -15.
Report on the Physician Capacity Utilization Telephone Surveys.
1976. Princeton: Mathematica Policy Research.
Public Use File Documentation
An overall guide to the public use files
User's Guide to HIE Data
1987. HIE Reference Series, vol. 3. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Dental Examinations: Codebook for Adults and Children at Enrollment and Exit
1987. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Insurance Preference Files: Relation Between Expense Limit and Premium
1986. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Adults at Enrollment and Exit, Form A
1986. Medical History Questionnaire Series, 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Adults at Enrollment and Exit, Form B
1986. Medical History Questionnaire Series, 2. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Children at Enrollment and Exit
1986c. Medical History Questionnaire Series, 3. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Infants at Enrollment and Exit
1986. Medical History Questionnaire Series, 4. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codes Used in HIE Claims--Diagnoses, Symptoms, Procedures, Drugs, and Supplies
1986. HIE References, vol. 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebook for Adults at Enrollment and Exit
1987. Medical Disorder Series, vol. 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebook for Fee-for-Service Annual Expenditures and Visit Counts
1986. Aggregated Claims Series, vol. 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for HMO and Seattle Fee-for-Service Visits--Outpatient and Inpatient
1986. Aggregated Claims Series, vol. 4. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Fee-for-Service Treatment Episodes and Annual Episode Counts
1986. Aggregated Claims Series, vol. 3. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Fee-for-Service Claims
1986. Claims Line-Item Series, vol. 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for HMO and Seattle Fee-for-Service Annual Expenditures
1986. Aggregated Claims Series, vol. 5. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Health Maintenance Organization Claims
1986. Claims Line-Item Series, vol. 2. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Seattle Fee-for-Service Claims for Comparison with HMO Claims
1986. Claims Line-Item Series, vol. 3. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Providers Cited in HIE Data
1987. HIE Reference Series, vol. 2. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebook for Eligibility-Family Changes File
1986. Master Sample Series 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebooks for Adults and Children at Enrollment and Exit
1986. Health Status and Attitude Series, vol. 1. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation
Codebook for Children at Enrollment and Exit
1987. Medical Disorder Series, vol. 2. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation