We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

Commercial health plans pay higher prices than public payers for hospital care, which accounts for more than 5 percent of US gross domestic product. Crafting effective policy responses requires ...

Jeffrey R. Brown ( [email protected]) is the Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gopi Shah Goda is a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic ...

Darius Lakdawalla ([email protected]) is the director of research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dana Goldman is chair and director of health economics, ...

Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...

Insurance churn, or moving between different insurance plans or between insurance and uninsurance, is common during the perinatal period. We used survey data from the 2012–17 Pregnancy Risk Assessment ...

We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...

At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...

Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...