The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in
the first nine waves of the Health and…
The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most…
“In the tradition of Mark Doty’s Heaven’s Coast comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left…
This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of
people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related…
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these…
Since 2006 numerous insurers have stopped serving the low-income segment of the Medicare Part D program, forcing millions of beneficiaries…
To assess U.S. geographic variation in the management of medication in elderly patients, the authors examined performance on two quality…