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HCFO News & Progress: January 2007
- Research Translation: Moving Research to Policy and Practice...1
- New Grants
- Should Healthy Beneficiaries Buy Medicare Drug Coverage?...4
- Evaluation of Maine's Dirigo Reform...4
- Medicare Beneficiaries Response to Coverage Gaps...5
- Defensive Medicine as a Response to Medical Malpractice...5
- Impact of the Washington State Diabetes Collaborative...6
- Peer Pressure: Hospital Ownership Mix and Medical Service Provision...6
- Changes in Drug Utilization..7
- New Publications....8
HCFO News & Progress: May 2006
- New Grants
- Involving Consumers in Physician
Choice...3
- Effect of State Parity Laws on Children
with Mental Health Care Needs...3
- Specialty Hospitals and Competition
in the Hospital Industry...4
- Strategies to Reduce Health Care
Providers’ Administrative Burden...4
- Measuring the Value of Public Health
Systems...5
- Causes and Consequences of Change
in Local Public Health Spending...5
- New Publications...7
HCFO News & Progress: January 2006
- New Grants
- The Impact of Consumer Health Plan
Decision-Support Tools on Health Plan
Choice and Quality...4
- Costs and Benefits of Physician
Practices’ Interactions with Health Plans...4
- Duration Limitations and Adherence to
Chronic Medication...5
- Administrative Simplification Challenges
and Opportunities: A Physician
Organization Perspective...5
- Administrative Costs Associated
with Third Party Payment...6
- Uptake and Impact of Health
Risk Appraisals...6
- HCFO News...7
HCFO News & Progress: June 2005
- HCFO Reauthorized for Three Years...1
- Preliminary Findings
- LTC Needs of Baby Boomers...3
- Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage 4
- State Drug Assistance Program 5
- End-of-Life Care for Dual Eligibles...6
- Malpractice, Tort Reform, and Safety...7
- Project Update
- PPS for Medicare Home Health...8
- New Grants
- Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary...9
HCFO News & Progress: January 2005
- Experts—An Essential Component of the
HCFO Program...1
- Ethical Guidelines for Health Services Research...3
- Prior Publication Guidelines...3
- New Grants...4
- New HCFO Publications...11
- AcademyHealth News...18
HCFO
News & Progress: June 2004
- New
Grants
- Impact
of Medicare’s Local Medical Review Policies...4
- Impact
of Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Demand...5
- Hospital
Capital Financing...6
-
Medical Malpractice Reform 6
- The
Medicaid Undercount...7
- Length-of-Stay
Policy After Caesarean Section...7
- Management
Uses of Health-Based Risk Assessment Tools...8
- Managed
Care and Medicare Expenditures...9
- Long-Term
Care Needs of Baby Boomers...10
- Federal
Health Insurance Tax Credits...11
- Pharmacogenomics...12
- Hospital
Mergers and HMO Hospital Costs...12
- Prescription
Drugs and the New Medicare Benefit...13
- HCFO
News 14
HCFO
News & Progress: January 2004
- New
Grants
- Using
Physician Profiling to Evaluate Efficiency...4
- Dynamics
of Health Insurance Coverage...6
- Does
Hospice Care Save Money?...7
- Kaiser
Permanente Medicare Demonstrations...8
- Medicare
Home Health Prospective Payment System...9
- HCFO
News...10
HCFO
News & Progress: June 2003
- HCFO-Funded
Research Informs the Private Health Care Market...1
- Managed
Care and Outcomes...4
- Medicare
and Health Disparities...6
- Consumer-Driven
Benefits...7
- Impact
of Performance Reporting on Consumer and Physician Behavior...8
- Funding
Health Services in Rural Counties...9
- SCHIP
and Immunization Rates...10
- Medical
Liability and Disclosure...11
- Pooled
Purchasing Arrangements...12
- HCFO
News...14
HCFO
News & Progress: January 2003
- HCFO
Welcomes New NAC Members...1
- Corporate
Finance and Consolidation...4
- Medical
Technology Assessment...6
- End-of-Life
Care for Dual Eligibiles...7
- Chart
of Active Projects...8
- Effects
of Utilization Review...10
- California's
Medicaid Managed Care...11
- Consumer
Driven Health Plans...12
- End-of-Life
Care in Medicare Managed Care, Fee-for-Service...13
- HCFO
News...14
HCFO
News & Progress: August 2002
- HCFO
Reauthorized through 2005...1
- New
Health Plans Push for Smarter Health Care Choices...4
- Effects
of Mandatory Managed Care on Children's Access to and Use of Health
Care...6
- Effects
of Individual Insurance Market Regulations in New Jersey...6
- New
Research Explores Retiree Concerns Over Cost of Health Premiums...7
- Effects
of Concentrated Health Care Markets on Provider Behavior and Patient
Care...8
- Geographic
Variation in Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Utilization:
What is the Role of Physician Practice Patterns?...9
- Quality
Assessment of South Carolina Medicaid Managed Care...10
- HCFO
News...11
HCFO
News & Progress: March 2002
- HIPAA
Privacy Regulations: Researchers Prepare for New Rules...1
- Major
Differences Exist in Physician Profiling Systems...4
- A
Second-Generation Evaluation of the Buyers Health Care Action
Group...5
- Autologous
Bone Marrow Transplantation and the Treatment of Breast Cancer:
The U.S. Experience...6
- Creating
and Sharing Improved Tools for Policymakers to Assess Risk Adjustment
Approaches...6
- State
Health Care Purchasing Practices...7
- The
Safety Net and Employer-Provided Health Insurance...8
- Patterns
of Individual Coverage...8
- Navigating
the Complexities of ERISA Health Plans...9
- Assessing
the Impact of Medicaid Equalization Policies on Nursing Home Access...10
- Utilization
Review: Cost Savings and Quality of Care...11
- Changes
in Physicians' Decisions to Treat Medicaid Patients and the Uninsured...11
- Guaranteed
Renewability in Individual and Group Health Insurance: Functioning
and Future Prospects...12
- Specified
Data Solicitation...13
- HCFO
News...15
HCFO
News & Progress: November 2001
- HCFO-funded
Research Informs State Health Policy...1
- Managed
Care Affects Physician Practice, Treatments, and Costs for Medicare
Fee-for-Service Patients...4
- Depression
Sufferers Dissatisfied with Health Plans, but Unlikely to Disenroll...5
- Purchasers
Deem Health-based Risk Adjustment a Success...6
- The
Impact of Quality Information on Consumer Plan Choices: Does Health
Status Matter?...7
- Assessing
the Impact of a Public Report on Hospital Quality: A Controlled
Experiment in Wisconsin...8
- Effects
of the Balanced Budget Act and Market Forces on the Health Safety
Net...9
- Market-based
Reforms and the Quality of Hospital Care in New Jersey...10
- HCFO
News...11
HCFO
News & Progress: August 2001
- Choice:
The "Hot Button" in Health Care?...1
- Employers
Want to Finance and Manage Health Benefits for Workers...3
- Consumer
Choice Affects Levels of Trust and Satisfaction in Managed Care
Markets...5
- Capitation
Initiative Improves Outcomes for Several Mentally Disabled Patients...6
- Skilled
Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Affects Access of
Only Highest-cost Patients in Ohio...7
- Evaluation
of Medicare's Local Medical Review Policies for New Medical Technologies...12
- The
Effect of Local Hospital Networks on the Cost and Accessibility
of Hospital Services...13
- The
Impact of Three-tiered Pharmaceutical Formularies on Prescription
Drug and Health Care Costs and Utilization...14
- HCFO
News...15
HCFO
News & Progress: March 2001
- HCFO-funded
Research Provides Guidance to Decision Makers...1
- Managed
Care Affects Treatment Patterns with Implications for Quality
of Care...5
- Presentation
of Quality Information Influences Consumers' Decisions...6
- Medicaid
Managed Care Has Generally Positive Effect on Access and Use...8
- Researchers
Field Surveys Among Health Plans and Regulators to Understand
"Medical Necessity" Decision Making in Managed Care...9
- Insurance
Coverage, use of Prenatal Care, and the Financing of Birth Outcomes
in Nine States Pre- and Post-Welfare Reform...10
- Prescription
Benefit Comprehensiveness and Costs in Elderly Persons with Chronic
Illness...11
- Trends
in Medigap Insurance and the Impact of Recent Market and Regulatory
Changes...11
- Evaluating
Managed Care Patient Protection Laws...13
- Medicare
Risk-contracting: Impact on Access and Quality for Medicare HMO
Enrollees and Vulnerable Populations...14
- HCFO
News...15
HCFO
News & Progress: December 2000
- The
Power of Physician Payment: Designing Incentives in a New Era...1
- Quarterly
Benefit Caps May Help Medicare Beneficiaries Budget Prescription
Drug Costs More Effectively...4
- Health-based
Payment Catches on in State Medicaid Programs...5
- Hospital
Ownership Conversions...7
- Changes
in Drug Payment and Management Strategies in Physician Organizations...7
- The
Relationship Between Market Forces and the Costs, Treatments,
and Outcomes of Medicare AMI Patients...9
- Price
May be an Important Factor in How HMOs Grant Hospital Contracts...10
- The
Fishing Partnership Health Plan in Massachusetts...11
- Evolution
of Self-Insurance in and Era of Managed Care...12
- An
Evaluation of Health Insurance in San Francisco Before and After
Implementation of a Local Public Purchasing Cooperative...13
- Early
Implementation Experience of Vivius Contrasted with Other Internet-based
Approaches...14
- HCFO
News...15
HCFO
News & Progress: August 2000
- Communities,
Markets, and Access to Care...1
- Buyers
Health Care Action Group's Choice Plus Considered a Success by
Both Employers and Employees...4
- Presentation
Format Influences Consumers' Use of Health Plan Performance Information...5
- The
Effect of Managed Care on Treatment Patterns and Health Outcomes
Among Traditional Medicare Patients...6
- Evaluating
Florida's Medicaid Provider Service Network Demonstration Project...6
- The
Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Access to Care and Service
Use...7
- Understanding
the Employer's Perspective on Employer-Based Health Insurance...9
- The
Impact of the Prospective Payment System on Nursing Home Care...9
- Studies
of the Working Uninsured, Their Dependents, and Insurance Reform
on Their Behalf...10
- Health
and Economic Consequences of Medicaid Disenrollment in New York
City...11
- Understanding
Medical-Necessity Decision Making...11
- Causes
and Consequences of the HMO Underwriting Cycle...12
- Implementation
and Impact of Health-Based Risk Adjustment...13
HCFO
News & Progress: March 2000
- The
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance System: Repair It or Replace
It?...1
- Increases
in Variability of Hospital Demand Significantly Increase Hospital
Costs...4
- Hospitals'
Uncompensated Care Expenses Not Keeping Pace with Per Capita Spending...5
- Specialists
in Medical Groups Paid a Salary by HMOs Associated with Lower
Procedure Rates Than Those Paid under Fee-for-Service or Capitation
Contracts...7
- Consumers
Get More for their Managed Care Premium Dollar in Metropolitan
Areas Where Competition is Greater...8
- The
Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Prenatal Care Use and Birth
Outcomes...9
- Exit,
Voice, and Frailty: Consumer Behavior Under Managed Competition...10
- Physician
Compensation and Risk-Bearing Arrangements in Medical Groups...11
HCFO
News & Progress: November 1999
- Changes
in Health Care Financing and Organization Program Re-authorized...1
- Impact
of Physician Compensation and Risk-Bearing Arrangements Varies,
Depending on Strategic Goals and Mission of Medical Group...2
- Response
to Managed Competition Policies May Differ for Active Employee
and Retiree Populations...4
- Structure
of Employer Contributions in the Federal Employees Health Benefits
Plan May Prompt Employees to Buy More Coverage Than They Need...5
- Employees
Value Employer's Role as Health Benefits Purchaser...7
- New
York's ProNet Demonstration Project Wraps Up...8
- Health-based
Payment System Offers Some Promise in its Potential to Improve
Incentives for Health Plans to Serve People with Greatest Health
Care Needs...9
- The
Effect of Prescription Benefit Caps on Medicare HMO Enrollees...10
- Changes
in Drug Payment and Management Strategies in Physician Organizations:
A Multiple-Case Study...11
- The
Transfer of Risk and Clinical Management Responsibilities to Physician
Organizations: An Exploratory Analysis...12
HCFO
News & Progress: July 1999
- Data
Needs for Measuring Competition and Assessing Its Impact...1
- Evaluation
of the TennCare Health Reform Plan...4
- Risk
Segmentation Less a Concern Than Potential Cost and Confusion
Related to Employment-Based Medical Savings Accounts...7
- Hospital
Ownership Conversions...9
- A
Comparative Evaluation of Risk-Adjustment Methodologies for Profiling
Physician Practice Efficiency...9
- The
Relationship Between Market Forces and the Cost, Treatments, and
Outcomes of Medicare AMI Patients...10
- Information
Technology and the Use of Information in Managed Care...11
HCFO
News & Progress: May 1999
- This
special supplement to HCFO News and Progress highlights grants
awarded under the HCFO/Health Tracking program, which use the
Community Tracking Study's Household Survey.
HCFO
News & Progress: November 1998
- The
HCFO/Health Tracking Joint Solicitation...1
- Washington
State Leads the Way in Applying Risk-Adjusted Payments to Health
Plans Covering an Employed Population...3
- Beyond
the Gatekeeper...5
- Physician
Responses to HMO Growth...7
- Evaluation
of the TennCare Health Reform Plan...8
- Barriers
to Small Group Purchasing Coalitions...9
- The
Impact of Primary Care Physician Compensation Mechanisms on the
Process of Care...10
- An
Evaluation of the Impact of the New York Health Care Reform Act
of 1996 (NYHCRA) on Provider and Insurer Finances and Organization,
and on Insurance Coverage and Costs...11
HCFO
News & Progress: July 1998
- Risk
Adjustment: How Far Have We Come?...1
- An
Evaluation of the Current and Potential Impact of Consumer-Survey-Based
Report Cards on the Health Care Market Place...3
- Selective
Contracting for Tertiary Care Services by Managed Care Organizations...4
- Employers'
Use of Report Cards and Financial Incentives to Improve Health
Plan Performance...5
- Evaluation
of Reforms of the Market for Individual Coverage in New Jersey...8
- Investigation
into Specialist Payment...10
- Evolution
of Physician Organization Under Managed Care...11
HCFO
News & Progress: March 1998
- Choice
in Health Care...1
- Changing
Medicaid Physician Fees...4
- Older
Americans' Health Insurance...5
- The
Effects of Any Willing Provider and Freedom of Choice Laws...6
- Firms'
Decision-Making in Employer-Offered Health Insurance...8
- Reforming
Medicare Risk Payment Through Competitive Market Forces...9
- The
Effects of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 on Health
Service Accessibility and Efficiency...10
- Market
Forces in Investor-Owned HMOs...11
- The
Impact of Nonprofit Conversions on Community Benefits...12
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