Forum Session — May 2, 2008
Physician Income and Medical Practice Differences Across Specialties: Should Medicare Care? details

Forum Session — April 25, 2008
State Long-Term Care Strategies: Approaches to Managing Care and Controlling Costs details

Forum Session — April 11, 2008
Employer Use of Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans as a Retiree Health Benefit details

Small Group Session — March 20, 2008
Reauthorization of the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003: Where Have We Been? Where Do We Go Next? details

Forum Session — March 14, 2008
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Examining the Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health details

Forum Session — March 7, 2008
The Physician Group Practice Demo: Where Do We Take What We've Learned? details

Fundamentals Briefing — February 21 and 22, 2008
Insurance 101: The Fundamentals of Private Health Insurance
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Forum Session — January 17, 2008
Running Up the Health Care Tab: Will We Have Buyer’s Remorse? details

Forum Session — January 11, 2008
Health Care Safety Net Innovators: Forging Ahead, Though Challenges Persist details

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Forum Session — December 14, 2007
The Ethics in Patient Referrals Act: The Stark Law and the Practice of Medicine details

Forum Session — November 30, 2007
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Reauthorization: What Should Congress Consider? details

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

Small-Group Session — October 31, 2007
Diversifying the Health Policy Workforce details

Forum Session — October 19, 2007
Medicare Drug Utilization Management: Balancing Cost, Convenience, and Access details

Forum Session — September 21, 2007
Informal Care of the Frail Elderly: Policy and Practices to Support Family Caregivers details

Small-Group Session — September 14, 2007
Practicing in Groups: The Way to Quality and Efficiency?
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Forum Session — July 27, 2007
SCHIP: Coming of Age or Stuck in Adolescence?
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Forum Session — July 20, 2007
Behavioral Health in the Workplace: How are Employers Managing Mental Health and Disability?
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Forum Session — July 13, 2007
What Can Physician Profiling Do for Medicare?
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Workshop — June 28, 2007
Completing the Recipe for Children's Health: New Variations on Key Ingredients
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Forum Session — June 22, 2007
Medicare Advantage in 2007: What Are the Choices?
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Forum Session — June 8, 2007
Advancing Evidence-Based Health Care: New Tools, New Data, New Opportunities
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Forum Session — June 1, 2007
Getting the Fees "Right" and Medicare Physician Spending
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Forum Session — April 27, 2007
Ten Years After Welfare Reform: How Is TANF Working for Needy Families?
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Forum Session — April 20, 2007
Not All Smiles: Access to Oral Health Care for Low-Income Children
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Forum Session — April 13, 2007
Children’s Health Care Quality: Time to Grow Up?
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Forum Session — March 30, 2007
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SCHIP but Didn't Know Who to Ask…
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Forum Session — March 16, 2007
Personal Health Records: The People’s Choice?
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Forum Session — March 9, 2007
Implementing School Health Programs for Better Child Health and Academic Success
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Fundamentals Briefing — February 22-23, 2007
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
Author(s):  Christie Provost Peters & Mary Ellen Stahlman
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Forum Session — February 16, 2007
Completing the Recipe for Children's Health: Ingredients Beyond Health Insurance and Health Care
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Forum Session — January 12, 2007
Effects of Food Marketing on Kids’ Diets: I’m Lovin’ It?
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Forum Session — December 8, 2006
Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Role of Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program
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Forum Session — November 17, 2006
The Medicare PDP Market: Build It and the Plans Will Come
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Forum Session — October 13, 2006
Medicare Physician Spending: Past as Prologue?
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Forum Session — September 22, 2006
Specialty-Service Lines: Healthy Competition or Arms Race?
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Forum Session — September 15, 2006
Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Perspectives on Medicaid Fiscal Integrity and Intergovernmental Relationships
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Forum Session — August 4, 2006
Complexity, Coordination and Compromise: States and the Medicare Drug Benefit
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Forum Session — July 27, 2006
Canary in the Coal Mine or Crying Wolf? Examining Crowding in America’s Emergency Departments
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Forum Session — July 21, 2006
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program: Past, Present, and Future
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Forum Session — June 20, 2006
Health Care for All in Massachusetts: Implications for a Changing Safety Net
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Forum Session — June 14, 2006
“Mental Health: Progress and Pitfalls,” the Health Affairs Special Issue—A Discussion of Trends in Mental Health Services
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Forum Session — May 16, 2006
Medicaid in 2006: A Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road?
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Special Briefing — April 5, 2006
Improving Care Management in Los Angeles: A Site Visit Overview
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Forum Session — March 31, 2006
Medicare Provider Payments: Proposals from MedPAC and the Administration
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Forum Session — March 17, 2006
Physician Spending Growth: Do We Get What We Pay For?
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Forum Session — March 14, 2006
Caring for “Ryan White”: Balancing Quality, Access, Equity, and Finite Resources
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Forum Session — February 24, 2006
Financing Health Care in Retirement: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?
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Special Briefing — November 30, 2005
The Bean, the Cod and the Medical Establishment: A Boston Market Overview
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Forum Session — November 18, 2005
Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans: A New Opportunity for Integrated Care?
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Forum Session — November 10, 2005
The Changing Face of Medicaid: Contemplating New Approaches to Benefits and Cost Sharing
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Forum Session — October 21, 2005
Medicare Health Support: Working with Physicians?
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Forum Session — October 7, 2005
Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: Moving Toward More Effective Systems of Care
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Forum Session — September 30, 2005
Local Coverage Initiatives: Solution or Band-Aid for the Uninsured?
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Forum Session — September 23, 2005
Location, Location, Location: Market Characteristics and Private Payer Health Care Spending
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Forum Session — July 28, 2005
Containing Health Care Costs for Active Employees: What’s New in Health Plan Design?
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Forum Session — July 22, 2005
Understanding the Role of Medicaid in Assisting People with Disabilities
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Forum Session — July 12, 2005
Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Continuing Challenges For States
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Forum Session — July 8, 2005
Parity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Evaluation of Mental Health Parity Under the FEHB Program
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Simulation — June 24, 2005
Walk in My Shoes™: Navigating the Health Care System
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Forum Session — June 10, 2005
How Will They Know? Where Will They Go? Education and Outreach for the Medicare Drug Benefit
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Forum Session — June 3, 2005
Measuring Public Health Preparedness: Are We Ready Yet?
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Forum Session — May 20, 2005
Charting the Quality Roadmap: A Conversation with Mark McClellan
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Fundamentals Briefing — April 22 and May 6, 2005
Insurance 101: The Fundamentals of Private Health Insurance
Author(s): Sally Coberly and Lisa Sprague
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Forum Session — April 28, 2005
Understanding Medicare Advantage Bidding and Payment: Effects on Plan Choice and Beneficiary Premiums
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Forum Session — March 4, 2005
Cost, Quality, Access: Balancing the Health Policy Triumvirate
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Forum Session — February 18, 2005
“Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century”—Discussion of a Report from the National Academy for State Health Policy
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Fundamentals Briefing — January 13–14, 2005
Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
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Forum Session — December 1, 2004
Implementing the Formulary Requirements Under the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
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Forum Session — November 30, 2004
Children with Mental Disorders: Finding Effective Care Within the Systems That Serve Them
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Forum Session — November 8, 2004
Influenza Vaccine Shortages: Dress Rehearsal for a Future Pandemic? Or Wake-Up Call?
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Forum Session — October 27, 2004
Electronic Health Records: How Close? How Far to Go?
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Forum Session — October 22, 2004
Financing Long-Term Care: Will Insurance Make the Difference?
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Forum Session — October 7, 2004
Lost in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities in Moving Patients Between Health Care Settings
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Forum Session — September 30, 2004
Community Health Centers: Strategies for Success
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Forum Session — September 17, 2004
From 10 to 50: Options for Medicare Advantage Plan Regions
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Forum Session — July 22, 2004
Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Challenges and Opportunities for States
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Forum Session — July 9, 2004
Paying for Performance in Health Care: Getting a Better Deal?
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Forum Session — June 9, 2004
The Economics of Prescription Drug Importation
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Forum Session — May 21, 2004
Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure: Local, National, and Global Opportunities
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Forum Session — May 14, 2004
Implementing the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program: Overview and Implications
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Forum Session — May 7, 2004
Implementing the Health Coverage Tax Credit Program: Model for the Future?
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Forum Session — April 13, 2004
Implementing the MMA: Insights from Two Seasoned Administrators
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Forum Session — April 2, 2004
Necessary but Not Sufficient? Physician Volunteerism and the Health Care Safety Net
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Forum Session — February 6, 2004
Evidence- and Value-Based Approaches to Drug Formularies: What Role Will They Play in the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit?
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Forum Session — January 27, 2004
Toward Safer, Better, More Accountable Health Care: A Conversation with George Halvorson
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Forum Session — December 5, 2003
Sailing SCHIP through Troubled Waters: A View from the States
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Forum Session — November 25, 2003
Expanding Community-Based Care: Is the Olmstead Decision Making a Difference?
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Forum Session — October 22, 2003
Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid: Two for One or Double Jeopardy?
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Forum Session — October 17, 2003
The State Fiscal Crisis: A New Fiscal Reality Emerges
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Forum Session — September 29, 2003
Checking the Vital Signs of the Health Care Safety Net
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Forum Session — September 25, 2003
Medicare Prescription Drug Proposals and Health Insurance Risk
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Forum Session — September 8, 2003
The New Freedom Vision: Transforming the Mental Health System
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Forum Session — July 30, 2003
The Geography of Medicare: Explaining Differences in Payment and Costs
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Forum Session — July 9, 2003
Preferred Provider Organizations: Bringing the Mainstream to Medicare? details

Forum Session — June 17, 2003
Medicaid Prescription Drug Coverage: State Efforts to Control Costs
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Forum Session — June 12, 2003
Disease Management to Population-Based Health: Steps in the Right Direction?
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Forum Session — June 9, 2003
On the Front Lines of Homeland Security: Local Public Health Emergency Preparedness
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Forum Session — June 6, 2003
Depression in Primary Care: Making Good Care Good Business
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Forum Session — May 2, 2003
Reauthorizing Head Start: The Future Federal Role in Preschool Programs for the Poor
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Small-Group Session — April 24, 2003
TANF Redux: Update on Implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program in Three Communities.
details

Forum Session — April 9, 2003
"Medicaidization" of Mental Health
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Small-Group Session — April 4, 2003
Who Will Pay for the Adverse Events Resulting from Smallpox Vaccination? Liability and Compensation Issues
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Forum Session — March 26, 2003
Medicare and Chronic Conditions: Breaking Down Barriers to Better Care
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Forum Session — February 12, 2003
Pursuing Perfection in Health Care Delivery: Insights from Innovators
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Forum Session — February 7, 2003
Medicaid in 2003: Weathering the Perfect Storm
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Forum Session — January 31, 2003
Converging on Nursing Home Quality
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Fundamentals Briefing — January 23–24, 2003
Understanding Medicare and Medicaid: Fundamentals and Issues for the New Congress
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Forum Session — December 9, 2002
Primary Care: Why and Whither?
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Forum Session — November 25, 2002
A Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Exploring Issues Raised in a CBO Report
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Forum Session — November 19, 2002
Pharmacy Plus Waivers: Incrementalism at Work
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Small Group Session — October 22, 2002
U.S. Health Policy: Why So Different from Other Nations? Does It Matter? details

Forum Session — October 18, 2002
Running on Empty: The State Fiscal Crisis Worsens
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Small-Group Session — October 11, 2002
Waiting for the Next Vision: Purchasing Health Care in
Uncertain Times
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Forum Session — October 2, 2002
Medigap: Prevalence, Premiums, and Opportunities for Reform
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Forum Session — September 27, 2002
Contracting for Quality: Medicare's Quality Improvement Organizations
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Forum Session — September 10, 2002
Too Few? Too Many? The Right Kind? Physician Supply in an Aging and Multicultural Society
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Forum Session — September 5, 2002
SCHIP Turns Five: Taking Stock, Moving Ahead
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Forum Session — July 18, 2002
Managing Advanced Illness: A Quality and Cost Challenge to Medicare, Medicaid, and Private Insurers
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Forum Session — July 16, 2002
Welfare Reform and American Indians: A Briefing for Policymakers
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Forum Session — July 12, 2002
Average Wholesale Price for Prescription Drugs: Is There a More Appropriate Pricing Mechanism?
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Small-Group Session — July 10, 2002
Modernizing Medicare: The Homebound Rule and Next Steps
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Forum Session — June 27, 2002
1115 Ways to Waive Medicaid and SCHIP Rules: A Conversation about Change
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Forum Session — June 21, 2002
Improving Readiness against Bioterrorist Threats: State Public Health and Hospital Preparedness Plans
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Forum Session — April 26, 2002
Pharmacy Benefits: New Concepts in Plan Design
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Forum Session — April 12, 2002
Consumer Direction in Long-Term Care: Implications for Caregivers
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Forum Session — March 15, 2002
Promoting Marriage as Welfare Policy: Looking at a Public Role in Private Lives
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Forum Session — November 28, 2001
Reconsidering Medicare+Choice: What Options Remain?
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Forum Session — November 2, 2001
Medicare Coverage.: Lessons from the Past, Questions for the Future
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Forum Session — October 30, 2001
The Disappearing State Surpluses: How Come, How Long, and How Will They Affect Social Service Programs?
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Small-Group Session — October 26, 2001
The U.S. Health Care System: Are State and Local Officials Prepared for Terrorism? How Should the Federal Government Respond?
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Forum Session — October 23, 2001
Terrorism and Mental Health: Private-Sector Responses and Issues for Policymakers
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Forum Session — October 5, 2001
Primary Care Case Management: Lessons for Medicare?
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Forum Session — September 24, 2001
Health Insurance Family Style: Public Approaches to Reaching the Uninsured
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Forum Session — July 25, 2001
Income Support Policy and the U.S. Child Support System
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Forum Session — July 9, 2001
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: A Model for Medicare?
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Forum Session — June 22, 2001
Federal and State Perspectives on GME Reform
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Forum Session — June 5, 2001
Perspectives on the Financial Underpinnings of the Safety Net: "No Margin, No Mission"
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Forum Session — June 1, 2001
Nurse Workforce: Condition Critical
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Forum Session — May 3, 2001
Perspectives on the Safety Net: Providers and Patients in Jeopardy
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Forum Session — April 25, 2001
State-Based Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs: Temporary Fix or Lessons for Medicare?
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NHPF/NASHP Session — March 30, 2001
SCHIPing Away at the Uninsured: Lessons from State Flexibility
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Small-Group Session — March 28, 2001
Health Coverage Transitions for Young Adults with Disabilities
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Forum Session — March 23, 2001
Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Families: Successes to Date and Challenges Ahead
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Forum Session — February 23, 2001
Reflections on HCFA: Former Administrators Speak Their Minds
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Forum Session — December 15, 2000
The Federal-State Medicaid Match: An Ongoing Tug-of-War over Practice and Policy
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Forum Session — December 1, 2000
Using Arbitration to Resolve Disputes between Individuals and Health Plans: Issues for Federal Policymakers
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Forum Session — September 26, 2000
Bad News/Good News in the Asthma Epidemic: Prevalence Jumps Sharply, But Symptoms Can Be Controlled
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Forum Session — September 21, 2000
SCHIP in the Formative Years: An Update
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Forum Session — September 15, 2000
ASPE's Conference on Pharmaceutical Pricing Practices, Utilization, and Costs: A Recap and Some Further Thoughts
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Forum Session — September 8, 2000
Medicare+Choice: Where to from Here?
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Forum Session — July 11, 2000
Outpatient Commitment in Mental Health: Is Coercion the Price of Community Services?
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Forum Session — June 26, 2000
Using SCHIP to Subsidize Employment-Based Coverage: How Far Can This Strategy Go?
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Forum Session — June 16, 2000
HCFA's Outpatient PPS: Finally Ready to Roll?
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Forum Session — May 31, 2000
Pharmaceutical Marketplace Dynamics
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Forum Session — April 14, 2000
Dispelling the Myths and Stigma of Mental Illness: The Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health
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Forum Session — March 31, 2000
Designing a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Safety and Structure Considerations
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Forum Session — March 15, 2000
Improving Quality and Preventing Error in Medical Practice
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Forum Session — March 10, 2000
Beyond Survey Data: Prescription Drugs, Medicare, and Managed Care
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Forum Session — February 23, 2000
Physician Connectivity: Electronic Prescribing
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Forum Session — February 22, 2000
Growing Up in Urban America: Implications for Child Health and Welfare
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Forum Session — February 18, 2000
ERISA Health Plan Liability: Examining Models for Reform
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Forum Session — January 7, 2000
Reshaping AHCs' Role in Biomedical Research
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Forum Session — November 18, 1999
Maintaining Medicaid Enrollment in the Wake of Welfare Reform
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Forum Session — November 8, 1999
Medicare Competitive Pricing: Lessons Being Learned in Phoenix and Kansas City
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Forum Session — October 27, 1999
The ABCs of PBMs
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Forum Session — October 19, 1999
CHIP and Medicaid Outreach and Enrollment: A Hands-on Look at Marketing and Applications
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Forum Session — September 17, 1999
A Chicken (Nugget?) in Every Pot: What's at Stake in the Budget Debate
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Forum Session — September 13, 1999
The Nursing Center in Concept and Practice: Delivery and Financing Issues in Serving Vulnerable People
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Forum Session — July 20, 1999
Mental Health Coverage Parity: Separating Wheat from Chaff
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Small-Group Session — August 4, 1999
Welfare Reform and Mental Health Issues: Are They Essentially Interconnected? When and How Will We Know?
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Forum Session — July 13, 1999
Access to Home Health Services under Medicare's Interim Payment System
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Forum Session — July 7, 1999
Implementing the BBA: The Challenge of Moving Medicare Post-Acute Services to PPS
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Forum Session — June 25, 1999
Canada's Generalist Training: Are There Lessons for the United States?
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Forum Session — June 21, 1999
Confidentiality of Health Information: What Can We Learn from State Partnerships?
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Small-Group Session — June 2, 1999
Medicaid Managed Care Payment Rates: The Devil Is in the Details
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Forum Session — May 14, 1999
Reducing Medical Error: Can You Be As Safe in a Hospital As You Are in a Jet?
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Forum Session — May 11, 1999
Medical Necessity and Evolving Standards of Care
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Forum Session — May 3, 1999
HIPAA As a Regulatory Model — Part II: Views from Capitol Hill
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Forum Session — April 15, 1999
Substance Abuse Prevention: Could an Improved D.A.R.E. Program Help Bridge the Gap between Research and Practice?
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Forum Session — April 8, 1999
Providing Outpatient Prescription Drugs through Medicare: Can We Afford To? Can We Afford Not To?
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Forum Session — April 5, 1999
HIPAA As a Regulatory Model: Early Experiences and Future Prospects
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Forum Session — March 30, 1999
Margins As Measures: Gauging Hospitals' Financial Health
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Forum Session — March 24, 1999
Examining the Links between Retirement and Health Insurance: Implications for Medicare Eligibility
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Forum Session — February 26, 1999
Welfare Reform and Its Impact on Medicaid: An Update
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Forum Session — February 11, 1999
Biological Terrorism: Is the Health Care Community Prepared?
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Forum Session — February 5, 1999
Medicare HMO Pullouts: What Do They Portend for the Future of Medicare+Choice?
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Forum Session — January 25, 1999
Filling the Geriatric Gap: Is the Health System Prepared for an Aging Population?
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Small-Group Session — January 12, 1999
CHIP Data and Evaluation: What Will We Know and When?
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Small-Group Session — December 10, 1998
Improving Measurement of the Uninsured
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Forum Session — November 12, 1998
Retooling Tax Subsidies for Health Coverage: Old Ideas, New Politics
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Forum Session — November 9, 1998
Physician Organizations Assuming Risk: Market and Policy Implications
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Forum Session — October 23, 1998
Performance Measurement: Honing Our Health Care Quality Tools
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Forum Session — October 1, 1998
The State Children's Health Insurance Program: How Much Latitude Do the States Really Have?
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Forum Session — September 18, 1998
Protecting the Confidentiality of Health Information
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Forum Session — July 24, 1998
Communicating to Beneficiaries about Medicare+Choice: Opportunities and Pitfalls
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Forum Session — July 9, 1998
Medicare Coverage and Technology Diffusion: Past, Present, and Future
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Forum Session — June 26, 1998
Provide, Provide: The Economics of Aging
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Forum Session — June 19, 1998
ERISA Health Plan Denials: Exploring Models for External Review
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Forum Session — June 2,1998
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs
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Forum Session — April 14, 1998
Dual Diagnoses: The Challenge of Serving People with Concurrent Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Problems
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Forum Session — April 3, 1998
Increasing the Federal Cigarette Tax: A Means of Reducing Consumption?
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Forum Session — March 25, 1998
Restructuring the VA Health Care System: Safety Net, Training, and Other Considerations
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Forum Session — March 12, 1998
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: What Lessons Can It Offer Policymakers?
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Forum Session — March 6, 1998
Authenticating Healthcare Quality: Information and Accountability
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Small-Group Session — January 23, 1998
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996: Current Research, Additional Study Needed, and Opportunities for Foundation Support
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Forum Session — January 23, 1998
California Health Care: The Right Road to Travel?
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Forum Session — January 12, 1998
Managed Care and Quality: California Reaches for Answers
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Forum Session — December 12, 1997
Policy Options for Delivering and Financing Care at the End of Life
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