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Nov 25, 2005
How does cost sharing affect drug use? A RAND Corporation team linked pharmacy claims data with health plan benefit designs from 30 employers and 52 health plans.
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Jan 1, 2005
This report is an overview of the current state of knowledge on the effectiveness of these benefit-design approaches and tools: high deductibles, personal spending accounts, and tiered-benefits designs.
Oct 28, 2004
The results indicate continuing high support for requiring US health insurers to cover family planning services, but some loss of support for US sponsorship of family planning programs in developing countries.
Jan 1, 2004
Premium increases induced substantial plan switching.
Apr 29, 2002
Health Affairs asked RAND to apply current theory and knowledge to identify how selection bias might occur as Medicare-eligible DoD beneficiaries enrolled in Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).
Jan 1, 2002
Use of stated importance data to identify and interpret parameters measuring the effect of otherwise unobservable attributes of choice alternatives.
Increasingly, consumers have multiple health insurance options. New information is being developed to help consumers with these choices.
To assess the effects of CAHPS health plan performance information on plan choices and decision processes by New Jersey Medicaid beneficiaries.
Jan 1, 2001
Paper describes the prevalence of formal risk adjustment of payments made to health plans by Medicare, Medicaid, state governments, and private payers
To compare models for the case-mix adjustment of consumer reports and ratings of health care.
1998 National Research Corporation Healthcare Market Guide Survey queried household members primarily responsible for family health care decisions.
The 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA), which became effective in January 1998, is scheduled to expire in September 2001.
