We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

Jeffrey R. Brown ( [email protected]) is the Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gopi Shah Goda is a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...

The patient-centered medical home model aspires to fundamentally restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid program ...

We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...

At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...

Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...

We reflect on epidemiological modeling conducted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Europe, specifically in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United ...

Variation in Medicare payments across ambulatory settings has led to concerns about unnecessary spending and incentives to deliver care in more highly reimbursed settings. Across all settings, ...

Jamila Michener ([email protected]), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This article examines how racially and economically marginalized tenants built political power in response to ...