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October 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The great recession and passage of national health reform are together altering the calculus of employer approaches to offering health benefits, according to recent findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) visits to 12 nationally representative metropolitan communities.
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the use of "Section 125" cafeteria plans offered by employers to shelter individual health insurance premiums from income tax.
January 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Can these plans be used to purchase medically-underwritten individual insurance?
October 1, 2011 | Commentary
Making judgments about how much a person could pay for health insurance is difficult?even for an expert panel member.
October 1, 2009 | Report
Lab Report #1: Evaluating State Efforts to Improve Access to Health Care
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study provides an update on employers' responses under Massachusetts health reform in fall 2008, using data from surveys of working-age adults.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
Rewarding Results: Aligning Payments with High-Quality Health Care was a national program of RWJF and California HealthCare Foundation that tested the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of health care.
January 7, 2009 | Story
Increasing rates of employers offering insurance coverage suggest that crowd-out is not occurring after one year under Massachusetts health reform.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
An examination of the legal issues surrounding the taxation of employees? premiums for individual health insurance found that state and federal law are unclear as to ?cafeteria plans?? legality, and that implementation of health reform in 2014 will only partially resolve the confusion.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result
In 1995-1997, David Blumenthal, M.D., Ph.D., and researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, evaluated the impact of a major component of managed care - the use of a primary care physician as a gatekeeper to authorize all health services of HMO members.