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March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the influence of cost on patient use of behavioral counseling services. Smoking and obesity are two major public health challenges, but few health insurance plans cover counseling services to help individuals lose weight or stop smoking. Little is known about how the cost of behavioral counseling services affects the consumption of such services.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Two sources of raised costs and unsafe care are adverse events in hospitals and tests ordered by several different physicians. Addressing these situations could generate major savings to the system while improving patient care.
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This research examines how diagnosis-based risk adjustment systems might be used to help allocate funds to cover very-high-cost (VHC) patients. VHC patients are relatively rare in health care systems and therefore predictive models have a difficult ...
May 2, 2013 | Journal Article
Major benefits seen from this Medicaid expansion trial—improved health and well-being; reduced financial strain.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Lack of evidence and difficulty replicating results make it hard—for now—to make the business case for investing in nursing care.
February 4, 2013 | Journal Article
The practice of patient-centered care remains in its developmental stages—hampered, in part, by limited evidence of its effectiveness.
February 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Transparency about benefits and cost sharing, and uniform definitions and descriptions of design attributes—in plain English—will be necessary to support informed consumer decision-making.
January 14, 2013 | Journal Article
A call to change the method of calculating federal contributions to state Medicaid programs that more accurately takes into account individual—and changing—state economic circumstances
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Greater use of patient-centered medical home processes were not associated with patients’ perception of care according to this study.
September 26, 2012 | Journal Article
Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient than admitting them to the hospital and can result in shorter lengths-of-stay and lower costs.