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2026 Publications

Jul 9, 2026

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Megan Mathews, Steven C. Martino, Denis Agniel, Helin Hernandez, Megan K. Beckett, Debra Saliba, Jacob W. Dembosky, Nathan Orr, Marc N. Elliott
Jun 8, 2026

Identifying Gaps in Care Quality for Seriously Ill Medicare Advantage Enrollees

Rebecca Anhang Price, Anagha Alka Tolpadi, Melissa A. Bradley, Maria DeYoreo, Marc N. Elliott, Joan M. Teno, William Brodnitzki, Jason Chen, Anna Gosline, Stephanie S. Chan
May 27, 2026

The Effect of the Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark on Hospital Revenues and Other Spending Outcomes: Associations with Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Insurance Premiums

Elizabeth Chase, Christine Eibner, Rose Kerber, Jodi L. Liu
May 20, 2026

Medicaid Home-Based and Community-Based Services Long-Term Care Expenditures: Evaluation of the Balancing Incentive Program

Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Michael W. Robbins, Esther M. Friedman, Nabeel Qureshi, Regina A. Shih
Apr 20, 2026

Using a Quality Improvement Priority Metric to Promote Uniformly High-Quality Care: An Illustrative Example Using Child HCAHPS Survey Data

Denise D. Quigley, Marc N. Elliott, Mary Ellen Slaughter, Ron D. Hays
Mar 16, 2026

State Spending Growth Benchmarks and Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Premiums

Christine Eibner, Elizabeth Chase, Rose Kerber, Jodi L. Liu

Recent RAND Statistics Publications

2026 Publications

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Identifying Gaps in Care Quality for Seriously Ill Medicare Advantage Enrollees

The Effect of the Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark on Hospital Revenues and Other Spending Outcomes: Associations with Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Insurance Premiums

Medicaid Home-Based and Community-Based Services Long-Term Care Expenditures: Evaluation of the Balancing Incentive Program

Using a Quality Improvement Priority Metric to Promote Uniformly High-Quality Care: An Illustrative Example Using Child HCAHPS Survey Data

State Spending Growth Benchmarks and Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Premiums

2025 Publications

Health System Affiliation and Care for Dual-Eligible and Non-Dual-Eligible Medicare Beneficiaries

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Occupational Health

Hospital Patient Experience Worsened With the COVID-19 Pandemic, Especially for Older Adults, and Remains Worse Than Before

Supplemental Items Reduce HCAHPS Response Rates, but Response Rates Do Not Affect HCAHPS Scores: A Randomized Experiment

Inpatient Care Experiences Are Better in Critical Access Hospitals Than in Other Hospitals

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and PrEP Use Among Sexual Minority Men: The Mediating Roles of Internalized Homonegativity and PrEP Stigma

Estimating an Intervention's Effects on Health Care Disparities Within and Between Physician Organizations: Decomposing the Effects of Health System Affiliation

Telelactation Services and Breastfeeding by Race and Ethnicity: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Psychometric Properties of Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Community-Based Serious Illness Care

Age-Based Trends in Suicidal Ideation Among Child Welfare System-Involved Youth

Rethinking Suicide Prevention Research: Moving Beyond Traditional Statistical Significance

Estimating Generalized Propensity Scores with Survey and Attrition Weighted Data

Modeling Basal Body Temperature Data Using Horseshoe Process Regression

A Multiple Imputation Approach for the Cumulative Incidence, with Implications for Variance Estimation

Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?

Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

The Use of External Anchors When Examining Differences in Scale Performance in Patient Experience Surveys

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

De-biasing the Bias: Methods for Improving Disparity Assessments with Noisy Group Measurements

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2026 Publications

Use of Claims Data to Screen for Functional Limitations Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Identifying Gaps in Care Quality for Seriously Ill Medicare Advantage Enrollees

The Effect of the Massachusetts Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark on Hospital Revenues and Other Spending Outcomes: Associations with Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Insurance Premiums

Medicaid Home-Based and Community-Based Services Long-Term Care Expenditures: Evaluation of the Balancing Incentive Program

Using a Quality Improvement Priority Metric to Promote Uniformly High-Quality Care: An Illustrative Example Using Child HCAHPS Survey Data

State Spending Growth Benchmarks and Hospital Revenue, Hospital Prices, and Premiums

2025 Publications

Health System Affiliation and Care for Dual-Eligible and Non-Dual-Eligible Medicare Beneficiaries

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Occupational Health

Hospital Patient Experience Worsened With the COVID-19 Pandemic, Especially for Older Adults, and Remains Worse Than Before

Supplemental Items Reduce HCAHPS Response Rates, but Response Rates Do Not Affect HCAHPS Scores: A Randomized Experiment

Inpatient Care Experiences Are Better in Critical Access Hospitals Than in Other Hospitals

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and PrEP Use Among Sexual Minority Men: The Mediating Roles of Internalized Homonegativity and PrEP Stigma

Estimating an Intervention's Effects on Health Care Disparities Within and Between Physician Organizations: Decomposing the Effects of Health System Affiliation

Telelactation Services and Breastfeeding by Race and Ethnicity: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Psychometric Properties of Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Community-Based Serious Illness Care

Age-Based Trends in Suicidal Ideation Among Child Welfare System-Involved Youth

Rethinking Suicide Prevention Research: Moving Beyond Traditional Statistical Significance

Estimating Generalized Propensity Scores with Survey and Attrition Weighted Data

Modeling Basal Body Temperature Data Using Horseshoe Process Regression

A Multiple Imputation Approach for the Cumulative Incidence, with Implications for Variance Estimation

Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?

Survey Protocols, Response Rates, and Representation of Underserved Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial

The Use of External Anchors When Examining Differences in Scale Performance in Patient Experience Surveys

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

De-biasing the Bias: Methods for Improving Disparity Assessments with Noisy Group Measurements