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June 7, 2010 | Story
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Cost of Care
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Illness, Injury and Medical Expenses Contributed to More Than 60 Percent of 2007 Bankruptcies & Less Than a Quarter Were Uninsured
October 29, 2009 | Program Result
Faculty at Harvard and Ohio Universities studied a national random sample of personal bankruptcy cases to determine the extent to which medical problems contributed to the individuals' financial difficulties.
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Identifying Future High-Cost Patients
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 ...
Helping Policy-Makers Control Health Care Costs
July 14, 2009 | Story
"The program helped me develop my overall work in medical cost-effectiveness analysis, and increased my recognition within the University of Chicago," said Meltzer.
The Value of Personal Health Records and Web Portals to Engage Consumers and Improve Quality
July 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The use of patient-facing health information technology (HIT) platforms, such as personal health records (PHRs) and web portals, holds the promise of engaging patients in their own health care with the ultimate purpose of improving overall quality a ...
Essential Health Benefits
May 2, 2013 | Issue Brief
States welcome the opportunity to customize their own set of health insurance plans that will offer 10 categories called 'essential health benefits,' but health care providers, consumer groups and patient advocates would prefer a national standard.
A Medicaid Win-Win
February 25, 2013 | Feature
Nirav Shah, MD, New York health commissioner and three-time RWJF grantee, leads a plan that has cut $4 billion in state Medicaid expenditures while adding 154,000 people to the Medicaid rolls.
How Can Early Treatment of Serious Mental Illness Improve Lives and Save Money?
March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Early treatment and intervention for mental illness can improve lives and lower related health care costs.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Contain Health Care Costs
January 1, 2004 | Book
This chapter describes the history of the approach taken by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to health care cost containment.
Analysis of Cost Control of New Medical Technology
March 1, 2004 | Program Result
Alan B. Cohen, Sc.D., at the Boston University School of Management, examined the relative effectiveness of various cost-containment strategies in controlling the adoption and use of costly medical technology.