September 5, 2008
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Program Result
"Use Your Home to Stay at Home: Expanding the Use of Reverse Mortgages for Long-Term Care: A Blueprint for Action" contains estimates of the number of seniors who could benefit from reverse mortgages and the potential savings for the Medicaid.
October 21, 2011
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Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) began in 1989 is the nation's largest source of private funding for investigator-initiated health policy research on financing and organization.
April 15, 2011
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Program Result
Victor R. Fuchs studied the factors that affect health care expenditures and health and policy solutions for covering the uninsured and reducing the high cost of health care, resulting in more than 50 publications.
December 1, 2006
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Rochester hypothesized that managed care penetration may help alleviate disparities in health care access and quality between different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic populations.
October 1, 2004
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Program Result
Four organizations planned projects to demonstrate the use of financial incentives to reward providers for delivering high-quality health care.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
From 1997 to 2001, researchers at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted a two-phase study to test the hypothesis that risk adjustment could be improved by removing patients with high-cost chronic conditions from the general risk pool and assessing their risk by analysis of detailed clinical information.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1995 to 1998, researchers at Stanford University looked at how managed care penetration in given geographic areas affected the diffusion and use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a technology that allows physicians to obtain very clear pictures of patients' internal organs and internal structures without invasive procedures.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1991 to 1996, researchers with Washington-based PDF Incorporated examined the market for Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) before and after OBRA-90, which simplified comparison shopping for Medigap, to determine whether changes introduced in Medigap insurance policies decreased marketing abuses as well as confusion among elderly Americans.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
During the 1980s, expenditures on pharmaceuticals nationwide increased by 152 percent. HMOs implemented a number of cost-control mechanisms to slow the rate of growth of pharmaceutical expenditures, and were successful in doing so compared to fee-for-service health plans.
January 1, 2001
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Program Result
Starting in September 1991, researchers at the Pittsburgh Research Institute, Pittsburgh, compared the health care costs and use for employees at small firms and individual health plan subscribers with employees at large firms.
