Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure…
Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in…
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which…
Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving…
Although US health care expenditures reached 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009, quality measurement in this important service sector remains…
Little is known about the relationship between variation in drug and non-drug medical treatment and how areas may substitute one type of…
Objective: To examine the impact of incentive formularies on prescription drug utilization and spending after introduction of new pharmacy…
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…