May 1, 2012
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Journal Article
Enrollment is increasing in consumer-directed health insurance plans, which feature high deductibles and a personal health care savings account.
March 22, 2010
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Program Result
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute updated the guides for 15 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas.
January 1, 1998
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Program Result
Health Systems Research sought to define, through a conference and focus groups, the kinds of information consumers want and need in order to make choices among health care plans and providers.
October 1, 2012
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Issue Brief
This brief offers a snapshot of physicians’ views on having access to this kind of information themselves and having this information available to the public.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result
This 1996-1998 project, conducted by Jinnet B. Fowles, Ph.D., and researchers at the Institute for Research and Education in Minneapolis, evaluated how consumer-based reports cards affect institutional behavior in the health care market.
September 1, 2011
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Journal Article
Private foundations may hesitate to fund consumer advocacy in health reform implementation because its effects are hard to measure.
December 16, 2011
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Program Result
RWJF published monthly snapshots of how confident adults feel about their financial access to health care, based on data collected by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and analyzed by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
March 25, 2011
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Journal Article
Health care reform may create incentives to spur the growth in HDHPs and CDHPs, a move that might help hold costs down?at least for a time.
August 1, 2010
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Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between health plan performance and physician network overlap.
May 1, 2008
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Issue Brief
The Role of Quality Information