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July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief explores the role of benefit design and market innovations such as consumer-driven health plans and value-based insurance design to maximize beneficial coverage and offer incentives for better health and efficiency.
October 27, 2009 | Report
This analysis finds that fraud poses a major challenge in both the private and public insurance sectors and recommends policies aimed at assuring uniform and transparent measurement and reporting of fraud across all forms of coverage.
June 12, 2009 | Issue Brief
New brief details the procedure of insurers investigating policyholders' medical history after a policy has been issued.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study illustrates the effects of even modest changes in Medicaid cost-sharing policy on vulnerable populations.
June 1, 2009 | Survey/Poll
To establish alliances that could advance the goals of the Consumer Voices for Coverage (CVC) initiative and outlive it, RWJF required applicants to form a leadership team of partner organizations to mobilize the consumer advocacy network within their states. Mathematica, Inc. designed a survey to collect data about the structure and activities of the leadership teams.
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Analysis looks at implications of reform concepts for children and considers the potential risks of shifting children who currently have public coverage into plans sold in a new exchange.
August 5, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
A study published in the August 2011 issue of Health Affairs finds that physician practices in the United States spend significantly more time and money interacting with payers than their counterparts in Canada. For nurses and medical assistants, th ...
April 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This issue brief on dental care is part of a series examining healthcare costs and their consequences on farm and ranch families in the Great Plain states
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief
Another group of reform plans relied mainly on market-based incentives and tax reforms to cover the uninsured. Generally speaking, these plans did not envision a substantially enlarged role for government beyond increased financing, but aimed instead to redesign and better align government subsidies and policies to promote more affordable health coverage. Mandates on individuals and firms are not featured.
March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief
In a 2009 essay, Meyer and Wicks reintroduce Covering America Project with the hope that it will provide some timely guidance in the struggle to find a political consensus around a plan to cover the uninsured.