Bill J Wright,Matthew J Carlson,Tina Edlund et al.
Bill J Wright et al.
Many state Medicaid programs are implementing cost-saving mechanisms, but little is known about the impact of those strategies on low-income people. Recent increases in cost sharing for Oregon Health Plan (OHP, Oregon's Medicaid program) me...
Jessica E Haberer,Bowen Garrett,Laurence C Baker
Jessica E Haberer
This study investigates whether the implementation of Medicaid managed care from 1994 to 2001 was associated with changes in access to care for the uninsured. We used regression analysis to examine relationships between changes in county-le...
Comparative Study
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):1095-105. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1095 2005
Commercial plans in Medicaid managed care: understanding who stays and who leaves [0.03%]
医疗补助管理保健中的商业计划：了解谁会留下和谁会离开
Sharon K Long,Alshadye Yemane
Sharon K Long
Although the rapid increase in Medicaid managed care during the early 1990s attracted commercial plans to the program, by the late 1990s commercial plan participation in Medicaid had begun to decline. This study examines the role of Medicai...
Assessing access to care under Medicaid: evidence for the nation and thirteen states [0.03%]
评估医疗补助计划下的就医情况：国家及十三州的证据
Teresa A Coughlin,Sharon K Long,Yu-Chu Shen
Teresa A Coughlin
States have broad latitude in designing their Medicaid programs; this has important implications for access to care. To understand the consequences of state variation, we evaluate, for the nation and for thirteen study states, how well the ...
Comparative Study
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):1073-83. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1073 2005
Jerald Winakur
Jerald Winakur
Oxymoron no more: the potential of nonprofit drug companies to deliver on the promise of medicines for the developing world [0.03%]
不再自相矛盾：非营利性制药公司开发药物以实现服务发展中国家的承诺的潜在能力
Victoria G Hale,Katherine Woo,Helene Levens Lipton
Victoria G Hale
Although some pharmaceutical company efforts to develop and distribute drugs in developing countries have been successful, many fall short of meeting needs in resource-poor nations. In the context of public-private partnerships, we discuss ...
An update on safety-net hospitals: coping with the late 1990s and early 2000s [0.03%]
关于安全网医院的更新报告：应对二十世纪九十年代末和二十一世纪初的新问题
Gloria J Bazzoli,Ray Kang,Romana Hasnain-Wynia et al.
Gloria J Bazzoli et al.
Recent forces have created new financial stress for hospitals but also some relief. This paper explores hospitals' changing involvement in the safety net between 1996 and 2002. We replicate approaches used in a study of 1990-1997 and thus p...
Comparative Study
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):1047-56. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1047 2005
Use and costs of bariatric surgery and prescription weight-loss medications [0.03%]
减肥手术和体重减轻处方药的使用情况及费用分析
William E Encinosa,Didem M Bernard,Claudia A Steiner et al.
William E Encinosa et al.
The extent of use of bariatric surgery and weight-loss medications is unknown. Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, we estimate that the number of bariatric surgeries grew 400 percent between 1998 and 2002; such surgeries were performed o...
States' control of prescription drug spending: a heterogeneous approach [0.03%]
具有异质性的控药模式：州政府如何给医药费用“降温”？
Nancy E Morden,Sean D Sullivan
Nancy E Morden
In an effort to balance Medicaid budgets, states use prescription drug cost containment tools in unique ways and in varying combinations. We report on the variability in state-level strategies to control the cost of prescription drugs and d...
Riding the rollercoaster: the ups and downs in out-of-pocket spending under the standard Medicare drug benefit [0.03%]
医保标准药品福利下的自付费用波动现象研究
Bruce Stuart,Becky A Briesacher,Dennis G Shea et al.
Bruce Stuart et al.
This study projects how much Medicare beneficiaries who sign up for the standard Part D drug benefit in 2006 will pay in quarterly out-of-pocket payments through 2008. In the first year we estimate that about 38 percent of enrollees will hi...
Comparative Study
Health affairs (Project Hope). 2005 Jul-Aug;24(4):1022-31. DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.24.4.1022 2005