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Medicare as Insurance Innovator

September 25, 2012 | 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.

Discussions with Physicians about Hospice Among Patients with Metastatic Lung Cancer

May 25, 2009 | 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.

Health Purchasing Coalitions Struggle to Gain Bargaining Clout: Small Size and Lack of Support from Health Plans are Factors

August 1, 2003 | 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.

Recent Research About Nursing, March 2009

March 24, 2009 | Story

Highlights from the nursing field.

Don't Blame High-Cost, High-Tech Care at the End of Life for Rising Medical Costs

April 1, 1998 | 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.

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