Marsha Gold,Timothy Lake,William E Black et al.
Marsha Gold et al.
Despite strong interest in improving care for high-risk elders, demonstration projects typically show negative results. This paper examines one large foundation-sponsored initiative to gain insight on why success often is so elusive. The fi...
Wrangling prescription drug benefits: a conversation with Express Scripts' Barrett Toan. Interview by Robert F. Atlas [0.03%]
药房福利管理业的兴起——与Express Scripts公司的巴瑞特•托安谈话
Barrett Toan
Barrett Toan
Express Scripts, one of the three largest U.S. pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firms, has had one chief executive officer since its founding in the late 1980s. As Barrett Toan prepares to retire (he will remain as nonexecutive chairman), ...
Cindy Parks Thomas,Stanley S Wallack,Timothy C Martin
Cindy Parks Thomas
This study examines how seniors enrolled in a major national prescription drug discount program used their cards in the year before the Medicare discount card program's implementation, to establish baseline information. Seniors who actively...
Assessing the impact of coverage gaps in the Medicare Part D drug benefit [0.03%]
评估Medicare Part D药品福利中的保障缺口对患者的影响
Bruce Stuart,Linda Simoni-Wastila,Danielle Chauncey
Bruce Stuart
The new Medicare Part D drug benefit contains major coverage gaps for people who spend moderate to high amounts on prescription drugs who qualify only for the standard coverage. To help policymakers understand the impact such gaps will have...
Prescription drug coverage and seniors: findings from a 2003 national survey [0.03%]
关于老年人处方药覆盖情况的调查发现——基于2003年全国调查数据
Dana Gelb Safran,Patricia Neuman,Cathy Schoen et al.
Dana Gelb Safran et al.
Beginning in 2006 the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) will offer pharmacy benefits to forty-two million Medicare beneficiaries nationwide. In a 2003 national survey of Medicare beneficiaries age sixty-fi...
It's the premiums, stupid: projections of the uninsured through 2013 [0.03%]
天价保险费才真是“蠢事”：2013年前缺乏医疗保险人数的预测报告
Todd Gilmer,Richard Kronick
Todd Gilmer
Increases in the cost of health care from 1979 to 1999 accounted for the decline in health insurance coverage that occurred during that time period, as our earlier work demonstrated. Here we examine whether the model we presented adequately...
U.S. spending for mental health and substance abuse treatment, 1991-2001 [0.03%]
1991至2001年美国在心理健康和物质滥用治疗方面的开支状况分析
Tami L Mark,Rosanna M Coffey,Rita Vandivort-Warren et al.
Tami L Mark et al.
Spending for mental health and substance abuse (MHSA) treatment in the United States totaled dollar 104 billion in 2001, representing 7.6 percent of all health care spending. The nominal MHSA annual spending growth rate from 1991 to 2001 wa...
Change in challenging times: a plan for extending and improving health coverage [0.03%]
应对挑战中的变革：扩大和改进卫生保健覆盖面的计划
Jeanne M Lambrew,John D Podesta,Teresa L Shaw
Jeanne M Lambrew
Some speculate that Americans are neither politically capable of nor morally committed to solving the health system problems. We disagree. We propose a plan that insures all and improves the value and cost-effectiveness of health care by kn...
David C Goodman
David C Goodman
Barbara Starfield and colleagues present evidence that having more primary care physicians and fewer specialists per capita is associated with lower mortality rates. These analyses stand in contrast to those guiding national workforce polic...
Edward Salsberg
Edward Salsberg
The analysis by Barbara Starfield and colleagues has serious methodological and conceptual shortcomings. Despite the reference to "evidence" in the title, there is little evidence to guide the health care community or policymakers. The pape...