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 ...

Bradley Strunk is a consulting health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC); he is located in Greenbelt, Maryland. Paul Ginsburg ([email protected]) is president of HSC in ...

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 ...

Darius Lakdawalla ([email protected]) is the director of research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dana Goldman is chair and director of health economics, ...

Stacey McMorrow is a senior research associate in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute, in Washington, D.C. Jason A. Gates is a research assistant in the Health Policy Center, Urban ...

Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

Insurance churn, or moving between different insurance plans or between insurance and uninsurance, is common during the perinatal period. We used survey data from the 2012–17 Pregnancy Risk Assessment ...

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 ...

Physician practices are increasingly being acquired by hospitals and health systems. Despite evidence that this type of vertical integration is profitable for hospitals, the association between these ...

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...