Most Recent Articles from Health Services Research

• Research and reform: toward a high-value health system 

  Years from now, when we look back at the health care reform discussions of 2009, we will undoubtedly learn a lot about the strengths and weaknesses...

  10/01/09 by Michael Chernew · More from publication

• From pubs to scrubs: alcohol misuse and health care use 

  Alcohol consumption can affect health and health care use in both the short- and long-run. Although some studies show that moderate drinking is...

  10/01/09 by Ana I. Balsa; Michael T. French; Johanna Catherine Maclean; Edward C. Norton · More from publication

• Differential effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program expansions by children's age 

  In 1996, a year before the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was signed into law, a federal mandate set different income...

  10/01/09 by Ithai Zvi Lurie · More from publication

• Medicaid managed care and health care access for adult beneficiaries with disabilities 

  After more than a decade of experimentation with Medicaid managed care (MMC) for adults with disabilities (AWD), there is little evidence about how...

  10/01/09 by Marguerite E. Burns · More from publication

• Provider monitoring and pay-for-performance when multiple providers affect outcomes: an application to renal dialysis 

  Private and public payers are focusing on measuring and rewarding quality and efficiency in health care (Milgate and Cheng 2006; Rosenthal et al....

  10/01/09 by Richard A. Hirth; Marc N. Turenne; John R.C. Wheeler; Qing Pan; Yu Ma; Joseph M. Messana · More from publication

• Measuring racial/ethnic disparities across the distribution of health care expenditures 

  One of the continuing concerns in the health policy literature has been the marked differences in access to and extent of health care utilization...

  10/01/09 by Benjamin Le Cook; Willard G. Manning · More from publication

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