Accountable Care Organizations and Antitrust
April 11, 2012 | Journal Article
A new initiative of the Affordable Care Act known as accountable care organizations, received final rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Behavioral Economics CFP: Low-Value Care? Why Now?
March 6, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Lori Melichar spoke with Drs. Kevin Volpp and David Asch, co-directors of the Foundation’s Behavioral Economics Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, to talk about low-value health care.
Breaking Gridlock
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.
Building Health Policy Research Capacity in the Social Sciences
January 1, 2003 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology examines the Foundation's investments in building capacity among social scientists to do health policy analysis.
Can Private Companies Contribute to Public Programs' Outreach Efforts?
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This article describes an innovative outreach effort in California, which trains and certifies community organizations to help complete Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) applications.
CBO Scoring Misses Billions of Dollars in Potential Long-Term Savings from Effective Obesity Prevention Policies, According to New Study
April 24, 2013 | News Release
Obesity-prevention policies could save the U.S. billions of dollars in the long run. A new report from the Campaign to End Obesity shows that the way estimates for the costs of legislation are done now misses a lot of their value.
Controversy Undermines Support for State Mandates on the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
State actions requiring adolescent girls to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine created controversy following the vaccine’s approval in 2006.
Council Holds Three Conferences on Health Care Project
March 15, 2011 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2008 the Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, an independent, non-partisan body of health policy and economics experts at Brandeis University, held three annual conferences on health care issues.
Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Child Health
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors examined social risk factors (poverty, minority race/ethnicity, low parental education and not living with both biological parents) to assess whether an accretion of risk factors had a cumulative effect on child health. They also investi ...
Disagreement about Values Creates Confusion in Four Areas of Public Policy
November 1, 1996 | Program Result
Victor Fuchs, Ph.D. at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Washington, organized a conference to explore the public policy impact of individual and social responsibility in child care, education, medical care, and long-term care, and produced two books.