Private Markets

Forum Session — December 2, 2011
Mission Possible? Saving on Health Care Costs by Reducing Unnecessary Services
Author: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Special Briefing — October 14, 2011
Reengineering Health Care Delivery: What Lies Ahead?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — July 29, 2011
Fiscal Pressure and Hospital Financial Position
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — June 24, 2011
Tiered Provider Networks: Steps to Cost Containment?
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — May 20, 2011
Medicare's Vision of Accountable Care Organizations: Will Providers Have the Same View?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — March 25, 2011
Been There, Done That, Bought the Practice? Why Hospital Employment of Physicians Is Rising Again
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — January 21, 2011
Oral Health Update: Ten Years After the Surgeon General’s Report
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Forum Session — October 15, 2010
Transforming Primary Care: Implications for Practice Design and Workforce
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Rob Cunningham, Consultant

Forum Session — October 8, 2010
The Cost of Hospital Care
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — June 21, 2010
Health Care Cost Drivers in Massachusetts: Lessons for Federal Policymakers
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Site Visit — June 2–4, 2010
Heath Care Spending: Why Is Miami an Outlier?
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum Session — April 16, 2010
Transforming Health Care Delivery: Insights from the New Orleans Safety Net
Authors: Jessamy Taylor & Michele J. Orza, ScD

Small-Group Session — July 17, 2009
Encouraging Cost-Reducing Innovations in Health Care: New Technology Apps, New Business Models
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 832 — June 5, 2009
A Health Insurance Exchange: Prototypes and Design Issues
Author: Mark Merlis, Consultant

Forum Session — November 14, 2008
A Tale of Three Cities: Local Health Care Markets and Health Care Reform
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — November 13, 2008
Medical Imaging Services: Utilization, Spending, and Appropriateness
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Small-Group Session — May 2, 2008
Physician Income and Medical Practice Differences Across Specialties: Should Medicare Care?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — April 11, 2008
Employer Use of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans as a Retiree Health Benefit
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Site Visit — March 16–18, 2008
Competition and Collaboration, Chicago-Style
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — January 17, 2008
Running Up the Health Care Tab: Will We Have Buyer's Remorse?
Authors: Mary Ellen Stahlman & Christie Provost Peters

Forum Session — November 9, 2007
Shampoo, Sunscreen, and Strep Tests: The Retail Approach to Primary Care
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — July 20, 2007
Behavioral Health in the Workplace: How are Employers Managing Mental Health and Disability?
Author: Christopher W. Loftis, PhD

Forum Session — September 22, 2006
Specialty-Service Lines: Healthy Competition or Arms Race?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — July 27, 2006
Canary in the Coal Mine or Crying Wolf? Examining Crowding in America's Emergency Departments
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Issue Brief No. 811 — July 7, 2006
Don't Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor: The Crowded State of America's Emergency Departments
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Forum Session — June 14, 2006
“Mental Health: Progress and Pitfalls,” the Health Affairs Special Issue—A Discussion of Trends in Mental Health Services
Author: Christopher W. Loftis, PhD

Forum Session — September 23, 2005
Location, Location, Location: Market Characteristics and Private Payer Health Care Spending
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — July 28, 2005
Containing Health Care Costs for Active Employees: What's New in Health Plan Design?
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Issue Brief No. 804 — July 13, 2005
Specialty Hospitals: Can General Hospitals Compete?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — July 8, 2005
Parity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluation of Mental Health Parity Under the FEHB Program
Author: Eileen Salinsky

Forum Session — March 4, 2005
Cost, Quality, Access: Balancing the Health Policy Triumvirate
Author: Eileen Salinsky

Site Visit — November 6–7, 2003
Rural Health Care in the Electronic Age (Danville, PA)
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Nora Super

Forum Session — July 30, 2003
The Geography of Medicare: Explaining Differences in Payment and Costs
Author: Nora Super

Forum Session — July 9, 2003
Preferred Provider Organizations: Bringing the Mainstream to Medicare?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 792 — July 3, 2003
The Geography of Medicare: Explaining Differences in Payment and Costs
Author: Nora Super

Forum Session — June 6, 2003
Depression in Primary Care: Making Good Care Good Business
Author: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Background Paper — August 28, 2002
Expanding Health Coverage for the Uninsured: Fundamentals of the Tax Credit Option
Authors: Beth Fuchs, PhD, Mark Merlis & Julie James, Consultants

Forum Session — July 18, 2002
Managing Advanced Illness: A Quality and Cost Challenge to Medicare, Medicaid, and Private Insurers
Author: Karen Matherlee

Issue Brief No. 779 — June 20, 2002
Managing Advanced Illness: A Quality and Cost Challenge to Medicare, Medicaid, and Private Insurers
Author: Karen Matherlee

Background Paper — January 25, 2002
From Diagnosis to Payment: The Dynamics of Coding Systems for Hospital, Physician, and Other Health Services
Author: Karen Matherlee

Forum Session — October 23, 2001
Terrorism and Mental Health: Private-Sector Responses and Issues for Policymakers
Author: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Issue Brief No. 765 — July 9, 2001
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Model for Medicare?
Author: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Forum Session — July 9, 2001
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Model for Medicare?
Author: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Workshop — April 27–28, 2000
Hospital-Based Health Care Systems: The Post-BBA Era
Authors: Nora Super, Lisa Sprague & Karen Matherlee

Site Visit — April 10–11, 2000
Site Visit to Seattle — University of Washington Academic Medical Center
Author: Karen Matherlee

Site Visit — March 20, 2000
Site Visit to Detroit — Henry Ford Health System
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — March 16–17, 2000
Site Visit to Richmond and Hampton Roads — Bon Secours Health System, Inc.
Author: Nora Super

Issue Brief No. 749 — October 27, 1999
The ABCs of PBMs
Author: Robin J. Strongin

Forum Session — October 27, 1999
The ABCs of PBMs
Author: Robin J. Strongin

Issue Brief No. 747 — September 17, 1999
A Chicken (Nugget?) in Every Pot: What's at Stake in the Budget Debate
Author: Karl Polzer

Forum Session — September 17, 1999
A Chicken (Nugget?) in Every Pot: What's at Stake in the Budget Debate
Author: Karl Polzer

Issue Brief No. 734 — March 30, 1999
Margins As Measures: Gauging Hospitals' Financial Health
Author: Karen Matherlee

Forum Session — March 30, 1999
Margins As Measures: Gauging Hospitals' Financial Health
Author: Karen Matherlee

Issue Brief No. 728 — November 12, 1998
Retooling Tax Subsidies for Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics
Author: Karl Polzer

Forum Session — November 12, 1998
Retooling Tax Subsidies for Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics
Author: Karl Polzer

Issue Brief No. 727 — November 9, 1998
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market and Policy Implications
Authors: Sandra M. Foote & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — November 9, 1998
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market and Policy Implications
Authors: Sandra M. Foote & Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — February 18–20, 1998
Site Visit to Northern California — Risk, Accountability, and Staying Power in Next-Generation Managed Care
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sandra M. Foote