September 25, 2012
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Journal Article
Traditional or fee-for-service Medicare has produced many innovations in the payment for health care services, while private insurance has produced a series of benefit design innovations.
May 25, 2009
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Journal Article
Many terminally ill patients enroll in hospice only in the final days before death or not at all. Discussing hospice with a health care provider could increase awareness of its benefits and possibly result in earlier use.
August 1, 2003
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Program Result
This 1998-1999 project, conducted by researchers at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Washington, led by Elliot K. Wicks, PhD, gathered information to help employers, employees, consumer groups and policy-makers better understand the barriers to small-group health insurance purchasing coalitions.
March 24, 2009
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Story
Highlights from the nursing field.
April 1, 1998
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Program Result
Researchers at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education, Palo Alto, Calif., carried out a critical review and evaluation of the literature on high-cost illness published between 1982 and 1992.