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January 9, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation analyzed the state's health insurance market to inform development of its health insurance exchange. The Vermont legislature adopted all of the recommendations in the law to establish the exchange.
July 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief explores potential effects of medical-loss ratio provisions.
May 12, 2010 | Commentary
Economist Victor Fuchs, Ph.D., outlines what distinguishes health care from other goods and services and why we should be concerned about rising health care expenditures.
May 12, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines geographic variation in diagnostic practices by studying Medicare recipients who move to regions with higher or lower diagnostic intensity than the original region.
January 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Study looks at how federal stimulus funding, among other factors, has helped safety net providers weather the economic storm, partially offsetting reductions in state, local and private funding.
September 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
The FRESH-Thinking project at Stanford University, directed by Victor Fuchs and Ezekiel Emanuel, sponsored a series of meetings in 2007–10 that addressed policy options essential to all health reform proposals.
September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...
November 25, 2009 | Toolkit
This case study examines the current state of post-claims underwriting and rescissions regulation in Texas.
June 27, 2012 | Commentary
Electronic health records have the power to transform health care but they must be more than just electronic versions of current paper records.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
There is little question that the ACA will improve the nongroup and small group insurance markets for everyone in them, including the high-risk population. Yet insurance market reforms, guided by requirements for EHBs, AVs, and other tools provided by the ACA, are and will remain a work in progress.