A Call for a National Strategy on Veterans
Veterans Day in Britain is a solemn occasion.
Research
Local Population Characteristics and Hemoglobin A1c Testing Rates among Diabetic Medicare Beneficiaries
Background: Proposed payment reforms in the US healthcare system would hold providers accountable for the care delivered to an assigned patient population.
Drug Plan Design Incentives Among Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans (MA-PDs) and standalone prescription drug plans (PDPs) face different incentives for plan design resulting from the scope of covered benefits (only outpatien
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Postcolonial State
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils itself accordingly.
How Successful Is Medicare Advantage?
Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage (MA), now almost 30 years old, has generally been viewed as a policy disappointment.
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service toward episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal payment.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Use of Mammography Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare
Background Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality for women in all racial/ethnic groups.
Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment
In two important health policy contexts – private plans in Medicare and the new state-run “Exchanges” created as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – plan payments come from two sources: risk-adjus
Responses to Medicare Drug Costs among Near-Poor versus Subsidized Beneficiaries
Objective: There is limited information on the protective value of Medicare Part D low-income subsidies ( LIS).
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