Sheila Burke and Elaine Kamarck seek to offer a balanced way of looking at the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that…
Background: Relative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare, managed care plans caring for Medicare beneficiaries may be better positioned…
Geographic variation in per-beneficiary Medicare spending that cannot be explained by wages and the prices of other inputs to health care…
Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name…
This paper reviews the theory and historical developments that made it possible for the world's least affluent citizens to obtain the…
This paper considers two paradoxes concerning the relationship between capital investment decisions and competition. First, conventional…
We examine provider responses to the
Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment
system (PPS), which…
We report results from two surveys
of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance.
The first examines how well…
Background: The United States is aiming to achieve nationwide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) but lacks robust empirical…