South Atlantic States

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Health Maintenance Organizations and Hospital Quality for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

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.

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Medicaid eligibility expansion in Florida : effects on maternity care financing and the delivery system

Medicaid eligibility expansion in Florida : effects on maternity care financing and the delivery system

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Florida's Medicaid Mental Health Carve-Out: Lessons from the First Years of Implementation

Reports the results of an experiment with managed mental health care for Medicaid enrollees that was conducted in Tampa Bay, Florida.

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The effects of Florida's Medicaid eligibility expansion for pregnant women

The effects of Florida's Medicaid eligibility expansion for pregnant women

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Medicaid health maintenance organizations : can they reduce program spending?

Medicaid health maintenance organizations : can they reduce program spending?

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Evaluation of a Medicaid-Eligibility Expansion in Florida: Developing the Database

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.

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Comparison of values of a spot market for electricity

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...

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A Spot Market for Electricity: Preliminary Analysis of the Florida Energy Broker

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...

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Resource Estimate for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in the Gulf of Mexico

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.

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The Transition from High School to College: A Study of Freshman Enrollments in Florida.

The Transition from High School to College: A Study of Freshman Enrollments in Florida.

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Energy Policy Research and the State of Florida.

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...

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Case Studies in Educational Performance Contracting: Norfolk, Virginia

Describes Learning Research Associates' (LRA) contract instruction in reading, using regular reading teachers, in two poor, predominantly black Norfolk schools where students unable to read are common in higher elementary grades.

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Economic Gains From Storm Warnings: Two Florida Case Studies

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.

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David G. Groves