Private Markets

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

Forum Session — October 21, 2011
Review and Disclosure of Health Insurance Premium Changes: State and Federal Roles After PPACA
Author: Kathryn Linehan

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

Site Visit — May 31–June 2, 2011
Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows: Efforts to Improve Health and Reduce Costs in Denver
Authors: Michele J. Orza, ScD & Jessamy Taylor

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

Issue Brief No. 840 — December 21, 2010
Self-Insurance and the Potential Effects of Health Reform on the Small-Group Market
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — December 10, 2010
Insurer-Provider Payment Negotiations: Implications for Health Spending
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman

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 — February 26, 2010
Assessing and Ensuring Health Plan Provider Network Adequacy
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — November 13, 2009
Health Care Provider Consolidation and Reform
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — June 26, 2009
Proposals to Reform the Individual Health Insurance Market
Author: Kathryn Linehan

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

Background Paper No. 69 — June 4, 2009
Underwriting in the Non-Group Health Insurance Market: The Fundamentals
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Small-Group Session — March 20, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Rating in the Small-Group Market, Merging the Individual and Small-Group Markets, and Risk Adjustment
Author: Sally Coberly, PhD

Small-Group Session — March 6, 2009
Issues in Health Insurance Reform: Health Insurance Exchanges
Author: Sally Coberly, PhD

Small-Group Session — November 21, 2008
Preview of RAND Health's COMPARE (Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts) Initiative
Author: Sally Coberly, PhD

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 — 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

Issue Brief No. 821 — April 19, 2007
What Have You Done for Me Lately? Assessing Hospital Community Benefit
Author: Eileen Salinsky

Site Visit — April 3–5, 2007
Competition and Collaboration: The Spirit of St. Louis
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Background Paper — March 28, 2007
Health Care Price Transparency and Price Competition
Author: Mark Merlis, Consultant

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

Forum Session — March 17, 2006
Physician Spending Growth: Do We Get What We Pay For?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Site Visit — December 4–6, 2005
Redesigning Practice to Improve Care Delivery (Boston)
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Special Briefing — November 30, 2005
The Bean, the Cod and the Medical Establishment: A Boston Market Overview
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

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

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

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

Forum Session — January 27, 2004
Toward Safer, Better, More Accountable Health Care: A Conversation with George Halvorson
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

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

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

Small-Group Session — October 11, 2002
Waiting for the Next Vision: Purchasing Health Care in Uncertain Times
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Site Visit — January 8–11, 2002
Managed Care: As Good As It Gets? (Los Angeles)
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sally Coberly, PhD

Issue Brief No. 758 — September 8, 2000
Medicare+Choice: Where to from Here?
Author: Nora Super

Forum Session — September 8, 2000
Medicare+Choice: Where to from Here?
Author: Nora Super

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. 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. 730 — February 5, 1999
Medicare HMO Pullouts: What Do They Portend for the Future of Medicare+Choice?
Author: Nora Super

Forum Session — February 5, 1999
Medicare HMO Pullouts: What Do They Portend for the Future of Medicare+Choice?
Author: Nora Super

Site Visit — November 17–20, 1998
Site Visit to Southern California — Plans and Providers: Risk, Accountability, and Staying Power
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Sandra M. Foote

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 — October 27–30, 1998
Site Visit to Utah and Nevada — Essential Community Health Services on the Frontier
Authors: Karen Matherlee & Michael Anzick

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