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October 21, 2009 | Journal Article
Three years after Massachusetts enacted its health insurance reform law, the state boasts the lowest rate of uninsurance nationwide. Yet, the model is still surrounded by public controversy, especially as the nation explores health reform. This article gathers physician opinions about the Massachusetts health reform legislation and its implementation.
October 1, 2005 | Story
In 1997, Owen was awarded a seven-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases to perform a dialysis intervention study for end-stage renal disease.
October 1, 2006 | Journal Article
When primary care physicians refer children to specialty physicians, it is important that the physicians communicate effectively with each other in order to provide patients with optimal care. Though pediatricians have identified lack of communicati ...
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Federally qualified health centers, community variation and prospects under reform.
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.
September 1, 2011 | Report
Study examines how Massachusetts' 2006 health reform law has affected the health care arena in Boston.
October 21, 2009 | News Release
Three years into implementation, docs rate state's health care system positively.
March 19, 2012 | Program Result
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
September 9, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether affordability thresholds of financial strain due to medical bills change over time. The increasing cost of health care is a central issue in health policy and out-of-pocket spending for families has grown faster than incomes in the past decade.
April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.