In collaboration with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), RAND conducted a CAHPS demonstration with the Florida Medicaid program to test applications of plan performance reports in the Medicaid sector.
This study uses hospital discharge data for 1992-1994 to assess differences between HMO and insured non-HMO patients in California and Florida with regard to the quality of the hospitals used for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.
To examine the effects of the 1989 Medicaid-elibigility expansion for pregnant women in Florida, the authors constructed a linked person-level database that contained information from eight different files.
This paper is concerned with a market for electricity that has been successfully operating in Florida since 1978--the Florida Energy Broker. The Broker provides an hourly spot market for energy traded at a wholesale level between utilities with bilat...
Proposals for increased competition in the electric utility industry have suffered from a lack of empirical evidence on the feasibility of coordinating decentralized facilities. The Florida Energy Broker, which has operated since 1978, is an example...
An analysis and first-order estimate of the thermal resource available in the Gulf of Mexico that can be profitably extracted by ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology.
A discussion of state energy problems and the research required to support the selection of policies designed to solve them. The example chosen is the State of Florida, in which future energy demands may be in conflict with its unique environment, a...
A discussion of the economic gains expected from improvements in locating and tracking tropical storms that should be one result of routine observations from meteorological satellites.
