Christine Buttorff — Publications
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Paying in the Dark: Third-Party Administrator Fees and the Limits of Employer Cost Control in Self-Insured Health Plans
2026
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Why Employers Struggle to Manage the Cost of Their Employee Health Benefits—and What Might Help: A Policy Brief on Cost Control in Self-Insured Employer Health Plans
2026
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Designing And Evaluating Prescription Drug Models: Lessons From The Part D Senior Savings Model
2025
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Evaluation of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: 2020 to 2023
2025
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Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System (GADCS) Report Appendix: Year 1 – Year 4 Cohort Analysis Data Reported Through May 15, 2025
2025
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Medicare Part D Insulin Coverage: Formulary Strategies Amid Policy Headwinds
2025
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Part D Senior Savings Model Final Evaluation, 2021 to 2023
2025
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Assessing the Feasibility and Likelihood of Policy Options to Lower Specialty Drug Costs
2024
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The Curious Case of Hospital Indemnity Insurance for Medicare Beneficiaries
2024
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Ground Ambulance Industry Trends, 2017–2022: An Analysis of Ground Ambulance Organization Entrance and Exit
2024
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Trends in Medicare Part D Formulary Coverage for Non-insulin Diabetes Medications, 2020-2024
2024
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Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Three Years of Implementation (2020–2022)
2023
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Evaluation of the Part D Senior Savings Model: First Year of the Model Test (2021)
2023
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Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Hospital Visits in Colorado: An Observational Study
2023
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Cannabis Legalization and Cannabis-Involved Pregnancy Hospitalizations in Colorado
2022
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Comparison of Hospital Claims and Poison Center Data to Evaluate Health Impact of Opioids, Cannabis and Synthetic Cannabinoids
2022
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Utilization for Chronically Ill Medicare Beneficiaries?
2022
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Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Two Years of Implementation (2020–2021), and Appendixes
2022
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Part D Senior Savings Model: Model Reach and Scope
2022
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Projected US Savings From Biosimilars, 2021–2025
2022
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Access to High-Cost Medications After a Cap on Monthly Out-of-Pocket Spending in California
2021
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Alignment Between Objective and Subjective Assessments of Health System Performance: Findings From a Mixed-Methods Study
2021
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APCDs Can Provide Important Insights for Surveilling the Opioid Epidemic, With Caveats
2021
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Changes in Emergency Department Encounters for Vomiting After Cannabis Legalization in Colorado
2021
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Claims-based Measures of Prescription Opioid Utilization: A Practical Guide for Researchers
2021
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Comparison of Definitions for Identifying Urgent Care Centers in Health Insurance Claims
2021
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Increasing Price Transparency in Health Care: Key Themes and Policy Options from a Technical Expert Panel
2021
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Consolidation by Any Other Name: The Emergence of Clinically Integrated Networks
2020
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Evaluation Report of the First Three Years (2017-2019) of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test
2020
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The Importance of Understanding and Measuring Health System Structural, Functional, and Clinical Integration
2020
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Variation in Generic Dispensing Rates in Medicare Part D
2020
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First Annual Evaluation Report of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test: 2017, Year 1 of the Intervention
2019
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Insurers' Perspectives on MA Value-Based Insurance Design Model
2019
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Perspectives of Physicians in Small Rural Practices on the Medicare Quality Payment Program
2019
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Understanding U.S. Health Systems: Using Mixed Methods to Unpack Organizational Complexity
2019
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Integrating Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs Purchased Care: Preliminary Feasibility Assessment
2018
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation in Indian Health Service Direct Service Facilities
2018
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Preliminary Feasibility Assessment of DoD-VA Purchased Care Integration
2018
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The Benefits and Drawbacks of Alternative Tax Subsidization Approaches for Health Insurance
2017
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Evaluation of CMS's Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Advanced Primary Care Practice (APCP) Demonstration: Final Report
2017
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Examining the Implementation of the Medicaid Primary Care Payment Increase
2017
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The Impact of Practice Guidelines on Opioid Utilization for Injured Workers
2017
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Implementation of Medical Homes in Federally Qualified Health Centers
2017
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Multiple Chronic Conditions in the United States
2017
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Implementing a Drug Formulary for California's Workers' Compensation Program
2016
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Private Health Insurance Exchanges: Early Evidence and Implications for the Future
2016
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Authorities and Mechanisms for Purchased Care at the Department of Veterans Affairs
2015
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Comparing Employer-Sponsored and Federal Exchange Plans: Wide Variations in Cost Sharing for Prescription Drugs
2015
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Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Healthy Eating from Community Kitchens in Low-Income Urban Areas: A Discrete Choice Experiment of Comedores Populares in Peru
2015
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Impact of Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps on Financial Burden of Those with Group Health Insurance
2015
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Innovative Care Models for High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: Delivery System and Payment Reform to Accelerate Adoption
2015
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Policy Options to Expand Medicare's Low-Income Provisions to Improve Access and Affordability
2015
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Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans
2015
