Physician Agency and Competition: Evidence from a Major Change to Medicare Chemotherapy Reimbursement Policy
We investigate the role of physician agency and competition in determining health care supply and patient outcomes.
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Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision-Making, Not Geography
Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product.
Large Increases In Spending On Postacute Care In Medicare Point To The Potential For Cost Savings In These Settings
Identifying policies that will cut or constrain US health care spending and spending growth dominates reform efforts, yet little is known about whether the drivers of spending levels and of spending g
The Oregon Experiment -- Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes
The article focuses on a study which examined the effects of the expanding Medicaid coverage for low-income adults in the U.S. using the 2008 Medicaid expansion in Oregon.
Geographic Variation in Medicare Services
Defensive Medicine May Be Costlier Than It Seems
Defensive medicine—the ordering of unnecessary tests and procedures to reduce the threat of malpractice litigation—has long been a lightning rod in the debate over health-care spending.
The Trolley Problem
Book abstract: This 9-volume reference work provides clear definitions and explanations of all areas of ethics including the topics, movements, arguments, and key figures in normative ethics, metaethi
Mergers and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Steps To Reduce Favorable Risk Selection In Medicare Advantage Largely Succeeded, Boding Well For Health Insurance Exchanges
Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks—healthier, lower-cost patients—than has traditional Medicare.
Analysis Of Medicare Advantage HMOs Compared With Traditional Medicare Shows Lower Use Of Many Services During 2003–09
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the managed care program for Medicare beneficiaries, has grown rapidly, from 4.6 million enrollees in 2003 to 12.8 million by 2012, or 27 percent of all current
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