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Practice Expense Data Collection and Methodology: Phase II Final Report

2021
Evaluation of California Senate Bill 863 Medical Care Reforms

2020
Practice Expense Methodology and Data Collection Research and Analysis: Interim Phase II Report

2020
California Workers' Compensation Medical-Legal Fee Schedule: Analysis and Recommendations

2018
Medical Care Provided to California's Injured Workers: Monitoring System Performance Using Administrative Data

2018
Practice Expense Methodology and Data Collection Research and Analysis

2018
Modeling the Economic Impact of a California Workers' Compensation Formulary

2017
Physician Reporting Requirements for Injured Workers in California: A Review of Reporting Processes and Payment Policies

2017
Testing New Codes to Capture Post-Operative Care

2017
Developing Codes to Capture Post-Operative Care

2016
Estimating Surgical Procedure Times Using Anesthesia Billing Data and Operating Room Records

2016
Implementing a Drug Formulary for California's Workers' Compensation Program

2016
Development of a Model for the Validation of Work Relative Value Units for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

2015
Home Health Care for California's Injured Workers: Options for Implementing a Fee Schedule

2015
Medicare's Step Back from Global Payments: Unbundling Postoperative Care

2015
Opening the "Black Box" of GME Costs and Benefits: A Conceptual Model and a Call for Systematic Studies

2015
RAND Modeling Offers Support for Transparent and Consistent CMS Physician Fee Schedules

2015
Ambulatory Surgical Services Provided Under California Workers' Compensation: An Assessment of the Feasibility and Advisability of Expanding Coverage

2014
Fee Schedule Options for Services Furnished by Hospitals to Outpatients under the California Workers' Compensation Program

2014
Implementing a Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Fee Schedule for Physician Services: An Assessment of Policy Options for the California Workers' Compensation Program

2014
Does It Cost More to Train Residents or to Replace Them? A Look at the Costs and Benefits of Operating Graduate Medical Education Programs

2013
Allowances for Spinal Hardware under California’s Official Medical Fee Schedule: Issues and Options

2012
A Comparison of Ambulatory Perioperative Times in Hospitals and Freestanding Centers

2012
Assessing the Performance of Military Treatment Facilities

2011
Medical Care Provided Under California's Workers' Compensation Program: Effects of the Reforms and Additional Opportunities to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Care

2011
Policy Options for Addressing Medicare Payment Differentials Across Ambulatory Settings

2011
Use of Compound Drugs, Medical Foods, and Co-Packs in California's Workers' Compensation Program: An Overview of the Issues

2011
Ambulatory Surgery Facility Services Provided to California's Injured Workers

2009
How Are Residency Programs Preparing Our 21st Century Internists? A Review of Internal Medicine Residency Programs' Teaching on Selected Topics

2009
Inpatient Hospital Services: An Update on Services Provided Under California's Workers' Compensation Program

2009
Regulatory Actions that Could Reduce Unnecessary Medical Expenses Under California's Workers' Compensation Program

2009
Assessing Health and Health Care in the District of Columbia: Phase 2 Report

2008
Comparative Performance of the MS-DRGS and RDRGS in Explaining Variation in Cost for Medicare Hospital Discharges

2008
Evaluation of Alternative Methods to Establish DRG Relative Weights

2008
Medicare Payment Differentials across Ambulatory Settings

2008
Pay for Performance in California's Workers' Compensation Medical Treatment System: An Assessment of Options, Challenges, and Potential Benefits

2008
Rigorous Development Does Not Ensure That Guidelines Are Acceptable to a Panel of Knowledgeable Providers

2008
Selection of Workers' Compensation Treatment Guidelines: California Experience

2008
Evaluation of Severity-Adjusted DRG Systems: Addendum to the Interim Report

2007
Evaluation of Severity-Adjusted DRG Systems: Interim Report

2007
Medical Care Provided California's Injured Workers: An Overview of the Issues

2007
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Care Use Before and After Implementation of the IRF Prospective Payment System

2006
Research Colloquium on Workers’ Compensation Medical Benefit Delivery and Return to Work

2006
Analyzing — and Influencing — How the VA Allocates Its Health Care Dollars

2005
Challenges in Program Evaluation of Health Interventions in Developing Countries

2005
Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Access to Post-Acute Care

2005
Evaluating Medical Treatment Guideline Sets for Injured Workers in California

2005
Medicare Payment for Hospital Outpatient Services: A Historical Review of Policy Options

2005
Paying for Repackaged Drugs Under the California Workers’ Compensation Official Medical Fee Schedule

2005
Payment for Hardware Used in Complex Spinal Procedures under California’s Official Medical Fee Schedule for Injured Workers

2005
Payments for Burn Patients Under California’s Official Medical Fee Schedule for Injured Workers

2005
Possible Refinements to the Facility-Level Payment Adjustments for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

2005
Adopting Medicare Fee Schedules: Considerations for the California Workers' Compensation Program

2004
Health Benefits for Medicare-Eligible Military Retirees: Rationalizing TRICARE for Life

2004
Identifying and Accommodating Statistical Outliers When Setting Prospective Payment Rates for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

2004
Understanding Potential Changes to the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) System: A Regression-Based Approach

2004
An Analysis of Potential Adjustments to the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) System

2003
Case Mix Certification Rule for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

2003
Inflation in Hospital Charges: Implications for the California Workers’ Compensation Program

2003
Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

2002
Analysis of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program Fund Allocations for Indirect Medical Education Costs

2002
Executive Summary of Analyses for the Initial Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

2002
Exploration of Selection Bias Issues for the DoD Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Demonstration

2002
Workplan for the Monitoring and Refinement of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System

2002
An Analysis of the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) System

2001
Graduate Medical Education: The Policy Debate

2001
Interim Report on an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

2000
Work Plan for an Inpatient Rehabilitation Prospective Payment System

2000

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