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The Impact of COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Policy Responses on Excess Mortality 2023
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from County-Level Medical Claims and Cellphone Data 2022
Effects of Employer-Offered High-Deductible Plans on Low-Value Spending in the Privately Insured Population 2021
Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020
India's Historic Effort to Expand Health Insurance to Individuals Living Below the Poverty Line 2020
Americans Support Price Shopping For Health Care, But Few Actually Seek Out Price Information 2017
Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Low-Value Healthcare 2017
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Among Los Angeles County Men Who Have Sex with Men 2016
Do "Consumer-Directed" Health Plans Bend the Cost Curve Over Time? 2016
Low-value Health Care Services in a Commercially Insured Population 2016
PEPFAR Funding Associated with an Increase in Employment Among Males in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries 2015
US Hospitals Experienced Substantial Productivity Growth During 2002-11 2015
The Affordable Care Act May Increase the Number of People Getting Tested for HIV by Nearly 500,000 by 2017 2014
Does Stewardship Make a Difference in the Quality of Care? Evidence from Clinics and Pharmacies in Kenya and Ghana 2014
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems 2014
HIV Care Providers Emphasize the Importance of the Ryan White Program for Access to and Quality of Care 2014
University R&D Funding Strategies in a Changing Federal Funding Environment 2014
The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities 2013
Medicare Payment Reform and Provider Entry and Exit in the Post-Acute Care Market 2013
Price Shopping in Consumer-Directed Health Plans 2013
Quantifying the Value of Personalized Medicines: Evidence from COX-2 Inhibitors 2013
Test-and-treat in Los Angeles: A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Test-And-Treat for the Population of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Los Angeles County 2013
The Value of Diagnostic Testing in Personalized Medicine 2013
Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually 2012
Healthy Firms: Constraints to Growth Among Private Health Sector Facilities in Ghana and Kenya 2012
Medicare Postacute Care Payment Reforms Have Potential To Improve Efficiency Of Care, But May Need Changes To Cut Costs 2012
Posing a Framework to Guide Government's Role in Payment and Delivery System Reform 2012
Skin in the Game: How Consumer-Directed Plans Affect the Cost and Use of Health Care 2012
The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Episodes of Health Care 2011
Healthcare Spending and Preventive Care in High-Deductible and Consumer-Directed Health Plans 2011
High-Deductible Health Plans Cut Spending but Also Reduce Preventive Care 2011
How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations? 2011
Medicare's Bundled Payment Pilot for Acute and Postacute Care: Analysis and Recommendations on Where to Begin 2011
Physician Prescribing Behavior and Its Impact on Patient-Level Outcomes 2011
Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Inpatient Rehabilitation Care Under Prospective Payment 2010
Medicare Spending and Outcomes After Postacute Care for Stroke and Hip Fracture 2010
Private Sector Participation and Health System Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa 2010
Private Sector Participation and Health System Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa 2010
Catalysts of Entrepreneurship -- Policies for Growth: International Conference on Entrepreneurship 2009
Does Health Insurance Make You Fat? 2009
The Effect of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Revenues: Experience in Nineteen Countries 2009
Employer-sponsored Insurance, Health Care Cost Growth, and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries 2009
Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries 2009
Innovation and the Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance 2009
U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace 2009
A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India 2008
Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Care Prospective Payment System 2008
Policy Insight, Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2008: Caring for a Third of the World's Population: Challenges for the Health Systems of China and India 2008
Potential Effects of Introducing Behind the Counter Drugs 2008
RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2008 2008
Regulating Drug Prices: U.S. Policy Alternatives in a Global Context 2008
The Effect of State Cost Containment Strategies on the Insurance Status and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for HIV Infected People 2007
Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India 2007
The Short and Long Run Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Fatal Automobile Crashes 2007
The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance 2007
Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans 2006
Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality 2006
Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract 2006
HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior 2006
Immigrants and the Cost of Medical Care 2006
Impact of Postpartum Hospital-Stay Legislation on Newborn Length of Stay, Readmission, and Mortality in California 2006
The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants 2006
Rising Medicare Costs: Are We in Crisis? 2006
Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements 2005
Health Infrastructure and Immunization Coverage in Rural India 2005
Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets 2005
Legal Status and Health Insurance Among Immigrants 2005
Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs 2005
Health Insurance: Should California Regulate Health Insurance Premiums? 2004
Health Insurance, Obesity and Its Economic Costs 2004
HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior 2004
Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks 2004
New Evidence on Hospital Profitability by Payer Group and the Effects of Payer Generosity 2004
Price Regulation in Secondary Insurance Markets 2004
The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases 2004
Social Insurance and the Design of Innovation Incentives 2004
Cashing Out Life Insurance: An Analysis of the Viatical Settlements Market 2003
The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality 2003
The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality 2002
Optimal Contributions to Flexible Spending Accounts 2002
Determinants of Antidepressant Treatment Outcome 2000
Interim Report on an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System 2000

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