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 ...

Bradley Strunk is a consulting health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC); he is located in Greenbelt, Maryland. Paul Ginsburg ([email protected]) is president of HSC in ...

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, ...

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 ...

The patient-centered medical home model aspires to fundamentally restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid program ...

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 ...

Physician practices are increasingly being acquired by hospitals and health systems. Despite evidence that this type of vertical integration is profitable for hospitals, the association between these ...

We reflect on epidemiological modeling conducted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Europe, specifically in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United ...

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, ...

Variation in Medicare payments across ambulatory settings has led to concerns about unnecessary spending and incentives to deliver care in more highly reimbursed settings. Across all settings, ...

James J. Crall ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles ...

Consolidation of health care providers into vertically integrated health systems continued through the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in ever greater concentration in the U.S. health care system.