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Relief, Restoration and Reform: Economic Upturn Yields Modest and Uneven Health Returns
Community Health Centers Tackle Rising Demands and Expectations
Health Care Cost and Access Challenges Persist: Initial Findings from HSC's 2007 Site Visits
Health Care Cost and Access Challenges Persist
Variation in Clinical Information Technology (IT) Across Physician Specialties
Massachusetts Health Reform: Employers, Lower-Wage Workers and Universal Coverage
Distorted Payment System Undermines Business Case for Health Quality and Efficiency Gains
HSC's 12th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still Dominates
Clinical Information Technology Gaps Persist Among Physicians
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Remains Stable at High Rate in 2005
11th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Growing Availability of Clinical Information Technology in Physician Practices
The Community Safety Net and Prescription Drug Access for Low-Income, Uninsured People
A Decade of Tracking Health System Change
Stretching the Safety Net to Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health Needs
Do Specialty Hospitals Promote Price Competition?
Physician Acceptance of New Medicare Patients Stabilizes in 2004-05
Uninsured Patients, Malpractice Insurance Woes Stress Miami Health Care Market
Can Money Buy Quality? Physician Response to Pay for Performance
Blue Cross Influence Grows in Boston as State Revisits Reform Debates
Rising Pressure: Hospital Emergency Departments as Barometers of the Health Care System
Growth Fuels Hospital Competition and Challenges Greenville Safety Net
Perception, Reality and Health Insurance: Uninsured as Likely as Insured to Perceive Need for Care but Half as Likely to Get Care
Lansing's Calm Health Care Market Belies Increased Competition, Economic Doldrums
Community Quality Efforts Expand as Seattle Health Plan Products Evolve
Rapid Population Growth Outpaces Phoenix Health System Capacity
Public Coverage Provides Vital Safety Net for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Initial Findings from HSC's 2005 Site Visits: Stage Set for Growing Health Care Cost and Access Problems
Dynamic Orange County Health Care Market Responds to Opportunities
Urban-Suburban Hospital Disparities Grow in Northern New Jersey
10th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Little Rock Providers Vie for Revenues, as High Health Care Costs Continue
Most Medicare Outpatient Visits are to Physicians with Limited Clinical Information Technology
Continued Hospital Expansions Raise Cost Concerns in Indianapolis
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Stabilizes at High Rate in 2004
Medicare Seniors Much Less Willing to Limit Physician-Hospital Choice for Lower Costs
Leadership Changes Reinvigorate Cleveland's Health Care Market
An Update on Americans' Access to Prescription Drugs
High Cost of Medical Care Prompts Consumers to Seek Alternatives
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Slowdown Stalls in First Half of 2004
Most Uninsured People Unaware of Health Care Safety Net Providers
Trends in Health Insurance Coverage and Access Among Black, Latino and White Americans, 2001-2003
Controlling Health Care Costs
Wall Street Comes to Washington
Trends in Americans' Access to Needed Medical Care, 2001-2003
Trends in U.S. Health Insurance Coverage, 2001-2003
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Employer Views on Consumer-Driven Health Care
Wall Street Comes to Washington
Policy Options to Encourage Patient-Physician Shared Decision Making
Working at Cross Purposes: Health Care Expansions May Jumpstart Local Economies but Fuel Nation's Fiscal Woes
Physicians Key to Health Maintenance Organization Popularity in Orange County
Syracuse Health Care Market Works to Right-Size Hospital Capacity
"Bundling" Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care: Issues and Recommendations for the New Pilot Program in Medicare
Economic Downturn Slows Phoenix's Once-Booming Health Care Market
Fostering Health Information Technology in Small Physician Practices: Lessons from Independent Practice Associations
Health Care Certificate-of-Need Laws: Policy or Politics?
Physician Practices, E-Prescribing and Accessing Information to Improve Prescribing Decisions
Geographic Variation in Health Care: Changing Policy Directions
Privately Insured People’s Use of Emergency Departments: Perception of Urgency is Reality for Patients
Lansing's Dominant Hospital, Health Plan Strengthen Market Positions
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Turn Downward in 2003
HSC's 18th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Greenville & Spartanburg: Surging Hospital Employment of Physicians Poses Opportunities and Challenges
Employers Shift Rising Health Care Costs to Workers: No Long-term Solution in Sight
HSC's 18th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Coordination Between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians
Preferred Provider Organizations and Medicare: Is There an Advantage?
Despite Rapid Growth, Retail Clinic Use Remains Modest
Little Rock Health Care Safety Net Stretched by Economic Downturn
Federal Aid Strengthens Health Care Safety Net: The Strong Get Stronger
Competitive Albuquerque Health Insurance Market Gears Up for Coverage Boom
Employer Wellness Initiatives Grow, but Effectiveness Varies Widely
Managed Care Redux: Health Plans Shift Responsibilities to Consumers
Northern New Jersey Health Care Market Reflects Urban-Suburban Contrasts
Alabama’s Pass on Medicaid Expansion Leaves Birmingham’s Uninsured with Weak Safety Net
Journal Articles by HSC Researchers in the Current Edition of
Seattle Hospital Competition Heats Up, Raising Cost Concerns
Arranged Marriages: The Evolution of ACO Partnerships in California
Tax-free But of Little Account
Seventh Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington
Federal Exchange Option and Indecision on Medicaid Expansion Create Uncertainty for Richmond, Va., Market
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Innovation: Policy Options to Foster Medical Advances
Emergency Department Diversions: Hospital and Community Strategies Alleviate the Crisis
Portland, Oregon: Health Insurance Market Geared Up for National Health Reforms
Reversal of Fortune: Medicare+Choice Collides with Market Forces
HSC's 15th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Leapfrog Patient-Safety Standards are a Stretch for Most Hospitals
Options for Expanding Health Insurance for People with Chronic Conditions
Denver: Competitive Insurance Market Awaits National Health Reform
Cleveland Hospital Systems Expand Despite Weak Economy
For-Profit Conversions and Merger Trends Among Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Plans
Triple Jeopardy: Low Income, Chronically Ill and Uninsured in America
Ready or Not: Are Health Care Safety Net Systems Prepared for Reform?
Detroit: Motor City to Medical Mecca?
Patient Cost-Sharing Innovations: Promises and Pitfalls
Physicians More Likely to Face Quality Incentives than Incentives That May Restrain Care
Baltimore: Health Insurance Market Primed for National Health Reform
Even When Physicians Adopt E-Prescribing, Use of Advanced Features Lags
Getting Along or Going Along? Health Plan-Provider Contract Showdowns Subside
Emerging Health Care Market Trends
Hospital Quality Reporting: Separating the Signal from the Noise
Politics and Policy of Comparative Effectiveness: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Prescription Drug Access Disparities Among Working-Age Americans
Premium Subsidies for Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage
Innovations in Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions: What's Working in the Real World?
Primary Care Workforce Shortages: Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Payment Policies
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Slow in First Half of 2003
Employer Health Insurance Premium Subsidies Unlikely to Enhance Coverage Significantly
Health Coverage for the High-Risk Uninsured: Policy Options for Design of the Temporary High-Risk Pool
Few Americans Switch Employer Health Plans for Better Quality, Lower Costs
Episode-Based Payments: Charting a Course for Health Care Payment Reform
Patient Cost Sharing: Promises and Pitfalls
Los Angeles: Fragmented Health Care Market Shows Signs of Coalescing
Consumers Face Higher Costs As Health Plans Seek to Control Drug Spending
Managed Care in California: Cost Concerns Influence Product Design
San Diego: Health Care Providers Expand Capacity as Competition Increases for Well-Insured Patients
Wall Street Comes to Washington:
Patient Cost Sharing: How Much is Too Much?
A Tighter Bond: California Hospitals Seek Stronger Ties with Physicians
HSC's 17th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Financial Pressures Continue to Plague Hospitals
Insured Americans Drive Surge in Emergency Department Visits
California's Safety Net: The Role of Counties in Overseeing Care
Employer-Sponsored Insurance and Health Reform: Doing the Math
Shifting Ground: Erosion of the Delegated Model in California
Financial Woes and Contract Disputes Disrupt Market
Community Report No. 12
San Francisco Bay Area: Health Care Providers Shift Allegiances as Regional Networks Emerge
Expectations Outpace Reality: Physicians' Use of Care Management Tools for Patients with Chronic Conditions
Stand-Alone Health Insurance Tax Credits Aren't Enough
Disease Management: A Leap of Faith to Lower-Cost,Higher-Quality Health Care
Fresno: Health Providers Expand Capacity, but Health Reform Preparation Lags
Medicare Fees and the Volume of Physicians' Services
Hospitals Profit from Aggressive Negotiations
Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis Meets Markets: Stress in Unexpected Places
Local Public Hospitals: Changing with the Times
Efficiency and Quality: The Role of Controlling Health Care Cost Growth in Health Care Reform
Wall Street Comes to Washington
Sixth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington
U.S. Families' Use of Workplace Clinics, 2007-2010
Individual Insurance: Health Insurers Try to Tap Potential Market Growth
High-Intensity Primary Care: Lessons for Physician and Patient Engagement
HMO Model Shaken but Remains Intact
Premium Hikes and Malpractice Insurance Disrupt Miami Health Care Market
Rough Passage: Affordable Health Coverage for Near-Elderly Americans
Sacramento: Health Providers Collaborate and Weather Economic Downturn
Hopes Dim for More Competition
The Health Care Safety Net: Money Matters but Savvy Leadership Counts
Health Care Quality Transparency: If You Build It, Will Patients Come?
Riverside/San Bernardino: Vast Region, Market Fragmentation Add to Access Woes
Emergency Room Diversions: A Symptom of Hospitals Under Stress
Designing Effective Health Care Quality Transparency Initiatives
Adapting Tools from Other Nations to Slow U.S. Prescription Drug Spending
Hospitals Compete for Specialty Care
HMOs Alive and Well in Orange County
Cost and Access Challenges: A Comparison of Experiences Between Uninsured and Privately Insured Adults Aged 55 to 64 with Seniors on Medicare
HSC's 14th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
How to Make Tax Credits for Health Insurance Work: The Role of Purchasing Pools
Addressing Hospital Pricing Leverage through Regulation: State Rate Setting
Has Bioterrorism Preparedness Improved Public Health?
The Dollars and Sense of Prevention: A Primer for Health Policy Makers
Tax Credits and Purchasing Pools: Will This Marriage Work?
Paying More for Primary Care: Can It Help Bend the Medicare Cost Curve?
Unequal Access: African-American Medicare Beneficiaries and the Prescription Drug Gap
Great Recession Accelerated Long-Term Decline of Employer Health Coverage
General Hospitals, Speciality Hospitals and Financially Vulnerable Patients
Highly Consolidated Market Poses Cost Control Challenges
Health Care Cost Concerns Intensify in Little Rock
State Benefit Mandates and National Health Reform
General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals and Financially Vulnerable Patients
Back To The Future? New Cost and Access Challenges Emerge
Eighth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington
Health Status and Hospital Prices Key to Regional Variation in Private Health Care Spending
Innovations in Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions: What's Working in the Real World?
Indianapolis Hospital Systems Compete for Well-Insured, Suburban Patients
Rapid Population Growth Attracts National Firms
Cost Concerns Grow Despite New Health Plan Competition in Syracuse
Matching Supply to Demand: Addressing the U.S. Primary Care Workforce Shortage
Checking Up on Retail-Based Health Clinics: Is the Boom Ending?
Market Instability Puts Future of HMOs in Question
Tracking Health Care Costs
Americans' Access to Prescription Drugs Stabilizes, 2007-2010
A Health Plan Work in Progress: Hospital-Physician Price and Quality Transparency
Race, Ethnicity and Preventive Services:
Market Developments Signal Cost Hikes in Greenville
Physician Visits After Hospital Discharge: Implications for Reducing Readmissions
Increased Consolidation Raises Concerns
Bitter Contract Dispute Reaffirms Blues' Dominant Position in Lansing
HSC's 13th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Promoting Healthy Competition in Health Insurance Exchanges: Options and Trade-offs
Provider Systems Thrive in Robust Economy
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Down but Not Out
Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers?
Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease Care
At the Brink:
HSC's 16th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference
Developing Health System Surge Capacity: Community Efforts in Jeopardy
Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers?
Tracking Health Care Costs:
Health and Wellness: The Shift from Managing Illness to Promoting Health
Rising Costs Pressure Employers, Consumers in Northern New Jersey Health Care Market
Some Communities Make Progress in Reducing Children's Uninsurance
Public Health Workforce Shortages Imperil Nation's Health
Behind the Times: Physician Income, 1995-99
Defining "Defined Contributions":
Economic Downturn and State Budget Woes Overshadow Seattle Health Care Market
Wall Street Comes to Washington:
Creating Sustainable Local Health Information Exchanges: Can Barriers to Stakeholder Participation be Overcome?
Intense Competition and Rising Costs Dominate Cleveland's Health Care Market
Health Care Perceptions and Experiences
Competition Revs Up the Indianapolis Health Care Market
Who Is Likely to Switch Health Plans?
Patients Concerned About Insurer Influences
Back in the Driver's Seat: Specialists Regaining Autonomy
Thomas-Davis Medical Centers, formerly Tucson and Pheonix
The Individual Health Insurance Market
Individual Health Insurance: Fact, Opinion and Policy
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston
Cutting Back But Not Cutting Out
Community Hospitals in Indianapolis
Tracking Health Care Costs
Independent No More:
Aging Plays Limited Role in Health Care Cost Trends
Physicians Must Lead Local Organizations if Practices Are to Work, Panel Says
Growing Physician Access Problems Complicate Medicare Payment Debate
Fourth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:
Health Care Access For Low-Income People: Significant Safety Net Gaps Remain
Working Families' Health Insurance Coverage, 1997-2001
Wall Street Analysts Predict Several Years of Higher Health Plan Premiums
Wall Street Comes to Washington
Update on the Nation's Health Care System:
Tax Credits and the Affordability of Individual Health Insurance
HSC Conference Focusing on the Nation's Health Care System Finds It Is in Tremendous Turmoil
Who Do You Trust? Americans' Perspectives on Health Care, 1997-2001
Do HMOs Make a Difference?
Whats the Difference Between HMOs and Non-HMOs?: National Survey of Consumers Finds Limited Disparities with Non-HMO Plans
Fifth Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington:
Wall Street Analysts Bullish on Managed Care, Bearish on Revolution Health Care Information Technology
The Uninsured Getting Care:
Consolidation Continues, Financial Pressures Mount:
Competition Intensifies After Proposed Merger Fails:
Market in Turmoil as Physician Organizations Stumble:
Ownership Changes Set Market in Flux:
Market Calm, but Change on the Horizon:
Local Providers Fortify Their Position:
Integration Strategies Unravel, Competition Intensifies:
Market Concentration Increases but Power Held in Check:
Capacity Expands in Unrestrained Market:
Market Stabilizes Around Five Large Organizations:
Local Organizations Retain Market Dominance:
Access to Care:
Access to Specialists:
Satisfaction and Quality:
Strong Opinions Held about the Tradeoff Between Choice of Providers and Cost of Care
Uninsurance Rates Vary Widely Across Communities and Regions
Primary Care Physicians Concerned about Patients' Access to Mental Health Services
Gatekeeping Arrangements in Widespread Use
Payment Arrangements and Financial Incentives for Physicians
Trends in Managed Care Coverage in Small Firms
More Small Firms Offer Health Insurance but Fewer Employees Enroll
Growth of Medicaid-Dominated HMOs
Despite Fears, Costs Rise Only Modestly in 1998
Tracking Changes in the Public Health System:
Medicaid Eligibility Policy and the Crowding-Out Effect:
A Primer on Understanding Health Care Cost Trends:
Tracking Health Care Costs:
An Inadequate Supply of Qualified People Will Slow the Pace of Health System Change
Access to Health Care:
Patients, Profits and Health System Change:
Health Care Costs:
Will Hospital Report Cards Make the Grade?
Next Steps in Incremental Health Insurance Expansions:
Managed Care Woes:
Public Health Departments Adapt to Medicaid Managed Care
Wall Street Comes to Washington:
An Update on the Community Tracking Study:
Managed Care Cost Pressures Threaten Access for the Uninsured
Wall Street Comes to Washington:
Tracking Health Care Costs:
The Scope of Care Expected of Primary Care Physicians:
Insolvency and Challenges of Regulating Providers that Bear Risk
Who Has a Choice of Health Plans?
Do HMOs Make a Difference?
Collaboration and Competition Coexist
How Widespread Is Managed Competition?
Trends in the Cost of Employer-Sponsored Coverage
Trends in Offering Employer-Sponsored Coverage
CHIPing Away at the Problem of Uninsured Children
Recent Trends in Children's Health Insurance
Consumer Tolerance for Inaccuracy in Physician Performance Ratings
Tracking Health Care Costs: Hospital Spending Spurs Double-Digit Increase in 2001
Geographic Variation in Medicare Beneficiaries' Medical Costs Is Largely Explained by Disease Burden
Few Americans Switch Employer Health Plans for Better Quality, Lower Costs
Regional Health Care Market Studies Identify Emerging California Trends
A Long and Winding Road: Federally Qualified Health Centers and Prospects Under Reform
Health Care Provider Market Power: Implications for Consumers
Health Care Provider Market Power
Nonurgent Use of Hospital Emergency Departments
Communication Disconnect Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians
Growing California Hospital-Physician Market Power Foreshadows Challenges to National Health Reform
Early Impacts of the Recession on Health Care Safety Net Providers
Does Telemonitoring of Patients Improve Intensive Care?
Physician Performance Measurement: A Key to Higher Quality and Lower Cost Growth
Assessing Strategies to Address Rising Physician Costs
Rising Rates of Chronic Health Conditions: What Can Be Done?
The Fraying Link Between Work and Health Insurance
Despite Regulatory Changes, Hospitals Cautious in Helping Physicians Purchase Electronic Medical Records
Tracking Health Care Costs: Growth Remains Stable at High Rates
Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Mixed Employer Signals, Complex Market Dynamics
Health Plans Target Advanced Imaging Services
Clinical Information Technology Adoption Varies Across Physician Specialties
Exodus of Male Physicians from Primary Care Drives Shift to Specialty Practice
Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health Care
Physicians Slow to Adopt Patient E-mail
How Consumers Shop for Health Care: Evidence from the LASIK Self-Pay Market
Syracuse Faces Rising Health Costs; Hospital Competition Grows
More Americans Willing to Limit Physician-Hospital Choice for Lower Medical Costs
An Update on Medicare Beneficiary Access to Physician Services
Limited Information Technology for Patient Care in Physician Offices
Rising Health Costs, Medical Debt and Chronic Conditions
Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of Sticks
Can Market Competition Cure an Ailing Health System?
Tiered-Provider Networks: Patients Face Cost-Choice Trade-Offs
The Health Care Cost-Coverage Conundrum
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: Implications for Health System Capacity
Health Care Cost and Access Problems Intensify
Physicians: So Much to Do, So Little Time
So Much to Do, So Little Time: Physician Capacity Constraints, 1997-2001
Physicians and Care Management: More Acceptance than You Think
Kinder and Gentler: Physicians and Managed Care, 1997-2001
Prescription Drug Access: Not Just a Medicare Problem
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Stabilize but Remain High in 2002
Communities Play Key Role in Extending Public Health Insurance to Children
Physicians Pulling Back from Charity Care
Provider Network Instability: Implications for Choice, Costs and Continuity of Care
Defined Contributions: The Search for a New Vision
Insurers Consolidate, Hospitals Struggle Financially
Are Defined Contributions a New Direction for Employer-Sponsored Coverage?
Site Definition and Sample Design for the Community Tracking Study
CHIPing Away at the Problem of Uninsured Children
How Well Do Communities Perform on Access to Care for the Uninsured
The Community Tracking Study: A Focus on Change in the Health System
Policy Implications of Risk Selection in Medicare HMOs
Local Innovations Provide Managed Care for the Uninsured
State Reform Dominates Boston Health Care Market Dynamics
Why People Change Their Health Care Providers
How Physician Organizations Are Responding to Managed Care
Blue Plans: Playing the Blues No More
Mounting Pressures: Physicians Serving Medicaid Patients and the Uninsured, 1997-2001
Follow the Money: Factors Associated with the Cost of Treating High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries
Access to Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries
Medicare Risk Contracting: A Life-Cycle View from Twelve Markets
Economic Downturn Strains Miami Health Care System
Long Island Follows Bumpy New York Road to National Health Reform
The Insurance Gap and Minority Health Care, 1997-2001
Coordination of Care by Primary Care Practices: Strategies, Lessons and Implications
Physician Reimbursement and Participation in Medicaid
Treading Water: Americans' Access to Needed Medical Care, 1997-2001
Lessons from the Field: Making Accountable Care Organizations Real
Affordable Health Coverage Key to Attracting Uninsured 'Young Invincibles'
The Economic Recession: Early Impacts on Health Care Safety Net Providers
High and Varying Prices for Privately Insured Patients Underscore Hospital Market Power
Impact of Health Care Price Transparency on Price Variation: The New Hampshire Experience
No Mass Departure: Physicians and Managed Care Networks
Emergency Preparedness and Community Coalitions: Opportunities and Challenges
Balancing Revenue and Mission: Hospitals Revise Billing and Collection Practices for Uninsured Patients
Hospital Strategies to Engage Physicians in Quality Improvement
Difficult Trade-offs: Medical Debt, Household Finances, and Healthcare Access
HSC Researchers Testify at FTC Hearings
Most Medicaid Emergency Department Visits Involve Urgent or Serious Symptoms
Specialty Hospital Building Boom Threatens General Hospitals
Making Medical Homes Effective: Transitioning from Concept to Real-World Practice
Few Tools Available to Control Specialty Drug Spending
SCHIP, Medicaid Expansions Lead to Shifts in Children's Coverage
Massachusetts Health Reform: Rising Expenses and Growing Expectations Could Undermine Employer Support
Striking Jump in Consumers Seeking Health Care Information
Health Plan-Provider Confrontations on the Rise
Surprising Decline in Consumers Seeking Health Information
Rising Rates of Chronic Health Conditions: What Can Be Done?
Hospitals Accelerate Physician Employment to Bolster Referrals and Admissions
Safety Net Hospital Emergency Departments: Developing Safety Valves for Non-Urgent Care
Who Declines Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Is Uninsured?
Physician Ownership of Medical Equipment
U.S. Physician Charity Care Continues Decade-Long Decline
Behind the Slow Growth of Employer-Based Consumer-Driven Health Plans
Small Employers and Self-Insured Health Benefits: Too Small to Succeed?
Mixed Signals: Trends in Americans' Access to Medical Care, 2007-2010
Who Are the Uninsured Eligible for Premium Subsidies in the Health Insurance Exchanges?
Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban America
Living on the Edge: Health Care Expenses Strain Family Budgets
The Potential of Reference Pricing to Generate Health Care Savings: Lessons from a California Pioneer
Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net
Financial and Health Burdens of Chronic Conditions Grow
More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription Drugs
Problems Paying Medical Bills Increase for U.S. Families Between 2003 and 2007
Modest and Uneven: Physician Efforts to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Medical Bill Problems Steady for U.S. Families, 2007-2010
A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines Again
Physicians Moving to Mid-Sized, Single-Specialty Practices
Trade-Offs Getting Tougher: Problems Paying Medical Bills Increase for U.S. Families, 2003-2007
Hospital Emergency On-Call Coverage: Is There a Doctor in the House?
State Prescription Drug Price Web Sites: How Useful to Consumers?
Seeking Health Care Information: Most Consumers Still on the Sidelines
Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates, 2003-2007
Physicians Slow to E-mail Routinely with Patients
Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003
Workplace Clinics: A Sign of Growing Employer Interest in Wellness
Medicaid Patients Increasingly Concentrated Among Physicians
The Surge in Urgent Care Centers: Emergency Department Alternative or Costly Convenience?
How Engaged Are Consumers in Their Health and Health Care, and Why Does It Matter
Rising Hospital Employment of Physicians: Better Quality, Higher Costs?
Dispelling Myths About Emergency Department Use: Majority of Medicaid Visits Are for Urgent or More Serious Symptoms
The Role of Nurses in Hospital Quality Improvement
High-Performance Health Plan Networks: Early Experiences
State Variation in Primary Care Physician Supply: Implications for Health Reform Medicaid Expansions
Electronic Medical Records and Communication with Patients and Other Clinicians: Are We Talking Less?
Minneapolis-St. Paul: Health Care Market Overcomes Early State Resistance to National Reform
Wide Variation in Hospital and Physician Payment Rates Evidence of Provider Market Power
Word of Mouth and Physician Referrals Still Drive Health Care Provider Choice
Community Efforts to Expand Dental Services for Low-Income People
A Snapshot of U.S. Physicians: Key Findings from the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey
The Role of Health Insurance Brokers: Providing Small Employers with a Helping Hand

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