Journal Articles

bstracts of peer-reviewed journal articles authored by HSC staff members and outside researchers are provided on the web site. To obtain a full copy of the article, please contact the corresponding journal. An e-mail link to the related journal is at the bottom of each abstract for your convenience.

Title	Date	Document Info
Creating a Parsimonious Typology of Physician Financial Incentives	July 10, 2010	Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology
Primary Care: Current Problems and Proposed Solutions	May 2010	Health Affairs
The Growing Financial Burden of Health Care: National and State Trends, 2001-2006	March 25, 2010	Health Affairs
Unchecked Provider Clout in California Foreshadows Challenges to Health Reform	Feb. 25, 2010	Health Affairs
Medicare Fees and Volume of Physicians' Services	Winter 2009/10	Inquiry
Are Electronic Medical Records Helpful for Care Coordination? Experiences of Physician Practices	Dec. 29, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Getting to the Real Issues in Health Care Reform	Nov. 12, 2009	New England Journal of Medicine
Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It?	September/October 2009	Health Affairs
Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy	September/October 2009	Health Affairs
Does Telemonitoring of Patients—The eICU—Improve Intensive Care?	Aug. 20, 2009	Health Affairs
Rapidity and Modality of Imaging for Acute Low Back Pain in Elderly Patients	May 25, 2009	Archives of Internal Medicine
Beyond Parity: Primary Care Physicians' Perspectives on Access to Mental Health Care	April 14, 2009	Health Affairs
Information Gap: Can Health Insurer Personal Health Records Meet Patients' and Physicians' Needs?	March/April 2009	Health Affairs
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: The Scope of Care Coordination	Feb. 17, 2009	Annals of Internal Medicine
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise and Performance	Jan. 27, 2009	Health Affairs
High Medical Cost Burdens, Patient Trust and Perceived Quality of Care	Jan. 5, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Patient Experience with Coordination of Care: The Benefit of Continuity and Primary Care Physician as Referral Source	Jan. 6, 2009	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?	Nov. 18, 2008	Health Affairs
The Transition from Managed Care to Consumerism: A Community-Level Status Report	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Hospital-Physician Relations: Two Tracks and the Decline of the Voluntary Medical Staff Model	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Hospitalists and Care Transitions: The Divorce of Inpatient and Outpatient Care	September/October 2008	Health Affairs
Caught in the Competitive Crossfire: Safety-Net Providers Balance Margin and Mission in a Profit-Driven Health Care Market	Aug. 12, 2008	Health Affairs
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing Intensity	May 2008	Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice
Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Univeral Coverage	May/June 2008	Health Affairs
Do Primary Care Physicians Treating Minority Patients Report Problems Delivering High-Quality Care?	April 22, 2008	Health Affairs
Effects of Changes in Incomes and Practice Circumstances on Physicians' Decisions to Treat Charity and Medicaid Patients	March 2008	The Milbank Quarterly
Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004	January/February 2008	Health Affairs
Don't Break Out the Champagne: Continued Slowing of Health Care Spending Growth Unlikely to Last	January/February 2008	Health Affairs
Why Do Hispanics Have So Little Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?	Fall 2007	Inquiry
Convergence and Dissonance: Evolution in Private-Sector Approaches to Disease Management and Care Coordination	November/December 2007	Health Affairs
Unhealthy Trends: The Future of Physician Services	November/December 2007	Health Affairs
The Health Care Safety Net: What is It, What Good Does It Do, and Will It Still be There When We Need It?	Fall 2007	Harvard Health Policy Review
Differences Between Symptom-Specific and General Survey Questions of Unmet Need in Measuring Insurance and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care	September 2007	Medical Care
Redesigning Care Delivery in Response to a High-Performance Network: The Virginia Mason Medical Center	July 10, 2007	Health Affairs
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations for COPD and Pneumonia	June 2007	Medical Care
Physician Consideration of Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs in Making Common Clinical Decisions	April 9, 2007	Archives of Internal Medicine
Physicians' Experience Using Commercial E-Prescribing Systems	April 3, 2007	Health Affairs
Predictors of the Growing Influence of Clinical Practice Guidelines	March 27, 2007	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little Change	March 22, 2007	New England Journal of Medicine
Care Patterns in Medicare and Their Implications for Pay for Performance	March 15, 2007	New England Journal of Medicine
Insurance Premiums and Insurance Coverage of Near-Poor Children	Winter 2006/2007	Inquiry
Self-Pay Markets in Health Care: Consumer Nirvana or Caveat Emptor?	Feb. 6, 2007	Health Affairs
Shopping for Price in Medical Care	Feb. 6, 2007	Health Affairs
Identifying Affordable Sources of Medical Care Among Uninsured Persons	January 2007	Health Services Research
Hospital-Physician Relations: Cooperation, Competition or Separation?	Dec. 5, 2006	Health Affairs
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient Care	Nov. 16, 2006	New England Journal of Medicine
Employers' Views on Incremental Measures to Expand Health Coverage	November/December 2006	Health Affairs
Would Safety-Net Expansions Offset Reduced Access Resulting from Lost Insurance Coverage? Race/Ethnicity Differences	November/December 2006	Health Affairs
Hospital-Physician Portals: The Role of Competition in Driving Clinical Data Exchange	November/December 2006	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs: Continued Stability But at High Rates in 2005	Oct. 3, 2006	Health Affairs
Health Benefits In 2006: Premium Increases Moderate, Enrollment In Consumer-Directed Health Plans Remains Modest	Sept. 26, 2006	Health Affairs
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance Strategies	September 2006	The American Journal of Managed Care
The Impact of Quality-Reporting Programs on Hospital Operations	September/October 2006	Health Affairs
Prescription Drug Spending for Medicare+Choice Beneficiaries in the Last Year of Life	August 2006	Journal of Palliative Medicine
Immunization Disparities in Older Americans	August 2006	American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Specialty-Service Lines: Salvos in the New Medical Arms Race	July 25, 2006	Health Affairs
What Accounts for Differences in the Use of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities?	July 18, 2006	Health Affairs
Preparing for the Unknown, Responding to the Known: Communities and Public Health Preparedness	July/August 2006	Health Affairs
Strategies to Enhance Price and Quality Competition in Health Care: Lessons Learned from Tracking Local Markets	June 2006	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Hospitals' Responses to Nurse Staffing Shortages	June 26, 2006	Health Affairs
Medicare Fees and Physicians' Medicare Service Volume: Beneficiaries Treated and Services per Beneficiary	June 2006	International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
The Transition from Excess Capacity to Strained Capacity in U.S. Hospitals	June 2006	Milbank Quarterly
Construction Activity in U.S. Hospitals	May/June 2006	Health Affairs
The Struggle to Provide Community-Based Care to Low-Income People with Serious Mental Illnesses	May/June 2006	Health Affairs
Consumer-Directed Health Insurance Products: Local-Market Perspectives	May/June 2006	Health Affairs
Why Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Changed, 1997-2003	May/June 2006	Health Affairs
Generosity and Adjusted Premiums in Job-Based Insurance: Hawaii is Up, Wyoming is Down	May/June 2006	Health Affairs
Effects of Compensation Methods and Physician Group Structure on Physicians' Perceived Incentives to Alter Services to Patients	April 2006	Health Services Research
Public Employees' Health Benefits Survive Major Threats, So Far	April 18, 2006	Health Affairs
Community Approaches to Providing Care for the Uninsured	April 11, 2006	Health Affairs
The Effect of Population Aging on Future Hospital Demand	March 28, 2006	Health Affairs
Leaving Medicine: The Consequences of Physician Dissatisfaction	March 2006	Medical Care
Medicaid/SCHIP Cuts and Hospital Emergency Department Use	January/February 2006	Health Affairs
Hospital Payment Systems: Will Payers Like the Future Better than the Past?	January/February 2006	Health Affairs
A Widening Rift in Access and Quality: Growing Evidence of Economic Disparities	Dec. 6, 2005	Health Affairs
The Effects of Medicaid Reimbursement on the Access to Care of Medicaid Enrollees: A Community Perspective	December 2005	Medical Care Research and Review
Competition in Health Care: Its Evolution Over the Past Decade	November/December 2005	Health Affairs
Disparities Despite Coverage	Oct. 10, 2005	Archives of Internal Medicine
Health Benefits in 2005: Premium Increases Slow Down, Coverage Continues to Erode	September/October 2005	Health Affairs
What High-Deductible Plans Look Like: Findings from a National Survey of Employers, 2005	Sept. 14, 2005	Health Affairs
When the Price Isn't Right: How Inadvertent Payment Incentives Drive Medical Care	Aug. 9, 2005	Health Affairs
Delivery of Preventive Services to Older Adults by Primary Care Physicians	July 27, 2005	Journal of the American Medical Association
Geography and Destiny: Local-Market Perspectives on Developing Medicare Advantage Regional Plans	July/August 2005	Health Affairs
Access and Quality: Does Rural America Lag Behind?	July/August 2005	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs: Declining Growth Trend Pauses in 2004	June 21, 2005	Health Affairs
Medicaid Cost Containment and Access to Prescription Drugs	May/June 2005	Health Affairs
Health Center Trends, 1994-2001: What do They Portend for the Federal Growth Initiative?	March/April 2005	Health Affairs
Health Care Market Trends and the Evolution of Hospitalist Use and Roles	February 2005	Journal of General Internal Medicine
The Paradoxical Politics of Provider Reempowerment	December 2004	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Community Responses to National Healthcare Firms	December 2004	Journal of Health and Social Behavior
As the Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Turns: What Next?	November/December 2004	Health Affairs
Availability of Safety Net Providers and Access to Care of Uninsured Persons	October 2004	Health Services Research
Children's Health Coverage: A Quarter-Century of Change	September/October 2004	Health Affairs
Managed Care Rebound? Recent Changes in Health Plans' Cost Containment Strategies	Aug. 11, 2004	Health Affairs
Primary Care Doctors Who Treat Blacks and Whites	Aug. 5, 2004	New England Journal of Medicine
Expanding Care Versus Expanding Coverage: How to Improve Access to Care	July/August 2004	Health Affairs
Changes in Medicaid Physician Fees, 1998-2003: Implications For Physician Participation	June 23, 2004	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Turn Downward in 2003	June 9, 2004	Health Affairs
How Prepared are Americans for Public Health Emergencies? Twelve Communities Weigh In	May/June 2004	Health Affairs
Are Market Forces Strong Enough to Deliver Efficient Health Care Systems? Confidence is Waning	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
The Puzzling Popularity of the PPO	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
Financial Pressures Spur Physician Entrepreneurialism	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
Growth of Single-Specialty Medical Groups	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
What is Driving Hospitals' Patient-Safety Efforts?	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
Popular Medicaid Programs do Battle with State Budget Pressures: Perspectives from Twelve States	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
Medicaid Managed Care: The Last Bastion of the HMO?	March/April 2004	Health Affairs
The Effect of Tax Credits for Nongroup Insurance on Health Spending by the Uninsured	Feb. 25, 2004	Health Affairs
Physicians' Views Of Formularies: Implications For Medicare Drug Benefit Design	January/February 2004	Health Affairs
Health and the Cost of Nongroup Insurance	Fall 2003	Inquiry
Does U.S. Hospital Capacity Need to be Expanded?	November/December 2003	Health Affairs
Focused Factories? Physician-owned Specialty Facilities	November/December 2003	Health Affairs,
Can Hospitals and Physicians Shift the Effects of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement to Private Payers?	Oct. 8, 2003	Health Affairs
Benefits of and Barriers to Large Medical Group Practice in the United States	Sept. 8 2003	Archives of Internal Medicine
SCHIP Making Progress: Increased Take-up Contributes to Coverage Gains	July/August 2003	Health Affairs
Referral Gridlock: Primary Care Physicians and Mental Health Services	June 2003	Journal of General Internal Medicine
The Contribution of Insurance Coverage and Community Resources to Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care	June 2003	Health Services Research,
The End of an Era: What Became of the "Managed Care Revolution" in 2001?	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
An Empty Toolbox? Changes in Health Plans' Approaches for Managing Costs and Care	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Medicare Contracting Risk/Medicare Risk Contracting: A Life-Cycle View from Twelve Markets	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
The Resilience of the Health Care Safety Net, 1996-2001	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Managing Costs, Managing Benefits: Employer Decisions in Local Health Care Markets	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Hospitals' Negotiating Leverage with Health Plans: How and Why it Changed?	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Changes in Hospital Competitive Strategy: A New Medical Arms Race?	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Something Old, Something New: Recent Developments in Hospital-Physician Relationships	Feb. 21, 2003	Health Services Research
Health Plan Responses to Managed Care Regulation	Feb. 12, 2003	Managed Care Quarterly
Financial Incentives and Physicians' Perceptions of Conflict of Interest and Ability to Arrange Medically Necessary Services	January 2003	Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
Changes in Career Satisfaction Among Primary Care and Specialist Physicians, 1997-2001	Janurary 22, 2003	Journal of the American Medical Association
The Role of Public Employers in a Changing Health Care Market	January/February 2003	Health Affairs
The Effects of SCHIP on Children's Health Insurance Coverage	December 2002	Medical Care Research and Review
The Nongroup Health Insurance Market: Short on Facts, Long on Opinions and Policy Disputes	Oct. 23, 2002	Health Affairs,
Ensuring Health Security: Is the Individual Market Ready for Prime Time?	Oct. 23, 2002	Health Affairs,
Tracking Health Care Costs: Growth Accelerates Again in 2001	Sept. 25, 2002	Health Affairs
Obstacles to Employers' Pursuit of Health Care Quality	September/October 2002	Health Affairs
Quality Improvements By Providers: Market Developments Hinder Progress	September/October 2002	Health Affairs
Back to the Drawing Board: New Directions in Health Plans' Care Management Strategies	September/October 2002	Health Affairs
Insurance Product Design and Its Effects	Summer 2002	Inquiry
Small Firms' Demand for Health Insurance: The Decision to Offer Insurance	Summer 2002	Inquiry
Health Insurance Expansions for Working Families	July/August 2002	Health Affairs
A Longitudinal Perspective on Health Plan-Provider Risk Contracting	July/August 2002	Health Affairs
Consumer Beliefs and Health Plan Performance	June 2002	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Are HMO Enrollees Healthier Than Others? Results from the Community Tracking Study	May/June 2002	Health Affairs
Assessments of Medical Care by Enrollees in For-Profit and Nonprofit Health Maintenance Organizations	April 25, 2002	New England Journal of Medicine
The Growth of Managed Care and Changes in Physicians' Income, Autonomy and Satisfaction, 1991-1997	March 2002	International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Does Career Dissatisfaction Affect the Ability of Family Physicians to Deliver High-Quality Care?	March 2002	Journal of Family Practice
Power of Information: Closing the Gap Between Research and Policy	March/April 2002	Health Affairs
Declining Employer-Sponsored Coverage	March 2002	Medical Care Research and Review
The Changing Face of Managed Care	January/February 2002	Health Affairs
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance:	January/February 2002	Health Affairs
Managed Care in the Doctor's Office:	November 2001	American Journal of Managed Care
The Health Status of Workers Who Decline Employer-Sponsored Insurance:	November 2001	Health Affairs
Managed Care, Professional Autonomy, and Income:	October 2001	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care in Managed Care Plans	October 2001	Health Services Research
Worker Decisions to Purchase Health Insurance	September 2001	International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Tracking Health Care Costs	September 26, 2001	Health Affairs
Personal, Organizational and Market Level Influences on Physicians' Practice Patterns	August 2001	Medical Care
Minority Physicians' Experiences Obtaining Referrals to Specialists and Hospital Admissions	August 9, 2001	Medscape
Does Managed Care Enable More Low Income Persons to Identify a Usual Source of Care?	July 2001	Medical Care
Targeting Communities With High Rates Of Uninsured Children	July 25, 2001	Health Affairs
What Accounts for Differences in Uninsurance Rates Across Communities?	Spring 2001	Inquiry
Physicians' Assessments of Their Ability to Provide High Quality Care in a Changing Health Care System	March 2001	Medical Care
Trends In Out-Of-Pocket Spending By Insured American Workers, 1990-1997	March/April 2001	Health Affairs
Do Consumers Know How Their Health Plan Works?	March/April 2001	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs:	November/December 2000	Health Affairs
Update on the Nation’s Health Care System:	November/December 2000	Health Affairs
Withering on the Vine:	September/October 2000	Health Affairs
Health Plan Switching:	May/June 2000	Health Affairs
Are Focused Factories the Wave of the Future?	Spring 2000	Frontiers of Health Services Management
Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:	April 2000	Health Services Research
Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:	April 2000	Health Services Research
Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study:	April 2000	Health Services Research
Does Type of Health Insurance Affect Health Care Use and Assessments of Care Among the Privately Insured?	April 2000	Health Services Research
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	Winter 1999/2000	Inquiry
Changes in Scope of Care Provided by Primary Care Physicians	December 23, 1999	The New England Journal of Medicine
Managed Care Backlash:	October 1999	Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law
Health Spending:	January/February 1999	Health Affairs
Managed Care and Physicians' Provision of Charity Care	March 24-31, 1999	Journal of the American Medical Association
Pressures on the Health Care Safety Net:	April 1999	Health Services Research
Competition, Quality of Care and the Role of the Consumer	1998	The Milbank Quarterly
Tracking Health Care Costs:	September/October 1998	Health Affairs
Ability to Obtain Medical Care for the Uninsured	September 9, 1998	Journal of the American Medical Association
Health Plans 2010:	September/October 1998	Today's Internist
Health System Change in 1997	July/August 1998	Health Affairs
Rules of the Game:	July/August 1998	Health Affairs
Accountable Communities:	July/August 1998	Health Affairs
The Role of Employers in Community Health Care Systems	July/August 1998	Health Affairs
Tracking Small-Firm Coverage, 1989-1996	January/February 1998	Health Affairs
Choosing a Health Plan:	November/December 1997	Health Affairs
Small Employers and Their Health Benefits, 1988-1996:	September/October 1997	Health Affairs
Changes in Health Plans Serving Medicaid, 1993-1996	September/October 1997	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs:	July/August 1997	Health Affairs
A Changing Picture of Uncompensated Care	July/August 1997	Health Affairs
The Dynamics of Market Level Change	April 1997	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Trends Toward a National Health Care Marketplace	Spring 1997	Inquiry
Association Leaders Speak Out on Health System Change	January/February 1997	Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs	Fall 1996	Health Affairs
Rate Setting and Health Maintenance Organizations	Fall 1996	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities:	Summer 1996	Health Affairs
The Design of the Community Tracking Study:	Summer 1996	Inquiry
The Robert Wood Johnson Program to Monitor Health System Change	Spring 1995	Health Affairs
Health System Change:	Winter 1995	Health Affairs