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March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Despite the introduction of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit in January 2006, roughly the same proportion of elderly Medicare beneficiaries in 2003 and 2007--about 8 percent--skipped filling at least one prescription drug because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
January 11, 2012 | Story
Lynn Etheredge's Ideas Facilitate Policy to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs.
April 15, 2011 | 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.
January 24, 2013 | Story
Ruth Murphey Parker's research has focused predominantly in two areas: medical education and health services for under-served populations.
February 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This research examines Cash and Counseling's effects on the costs and uses of Medicaid's personal care services or home and community-based waiver services effects on other Medicaid costs and effects on total Medicaid costs.
January 1, 2001 | Book
A challenge for those trying to improve the care of poor older people is making the financing and delivery of services more rational and understandable.
January 1, 2000 | Book
One of the Foundation's targets in the chronic care area is increasing the capacity of communities to meet the supportive care needs of chronically ill people. This chapter of the RWJF Anthology examines assisted living,
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
Sentara Health System established a service credit banking program that recruited volunteers to provide supportive community-based services for enrollees of both its Medicare managed care plan and a project aimed at nursing-home-eligible patients.
January 1, 2007 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Alper discusses the Foundation's Program to Promote Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly that allowed nursing home patients with state-approved private long-term care insurance policies to be eligible for Medicaid.
February 3, 2005 | Story
If you're inside the (Washington) Beltway, it's familiar—otherwise it might be new. It refers to the gap in Medicare coverage for prescription drugs.