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How Similar Are States’ Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists?
For 42 (38%) of the drugs, there was wide consistency in PDL design, with at least 9 states classifying the drug with the same PDL status. For the other 62%…
Consumer Response To A National Marketplace For Individual Health Insurance
The objective of this analysis is to simulate the difference between national and state-specific individual insurance markets on take-up of individual health insurance. First, we reviewed the literature to characterize…
Hospital-Physician Gainsharing In Cardiology
The average in-lab cost per coronary stent patient increased from $3,338 in the fourth quarter of 2001 to $4,644 in the fourth quarter of 2006, and spending on devices and…
Continuation of Research on Consumer Directed Health Plans
This technical report was produced for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. The report extends and refines prior…
Tort Law and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
This paper estimated the effects of tort law and insurer investment returns on physician malpractice insurance premiums. Data were collected on tort law from 1991 through 2004, and multivariate regression…
Early Estimates of National Take-up
The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) approved tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs) for certain high-deductible health insurance plans. We predict that MMA could lead to approximately…