Insurance Coverage & Costs

HSC analyses focus on private and public insurance coverage, the uninsured and the cost of health care. HSC research provides insight into a range of topics, including how health care costs are changing, why the nation's number of uninsured continues to rise and how employer-sponsored coverage is changing.

Title	Date	Document Info
Ensuring Health Security: Is the Individual Market Ready for Prime Time?Karen Pollitz, Richard Sorian	Oct. 23, 2002	Journal Article Health Affairs,
The Nongroup Health Insurance Market: Short on Facts, Long on Opinions and Policy DisputesMark V. Pauly, Len M. Nichols	Oct. 23, 2002	Journal Article Health Affairs,
Follow the Money: Factors Associated with the Cost of Treating High-Cost Medicare BeneficiariesJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Cynthia B. Saiontz-Martinez, Ellyn R. Boukus	Feb. 11, 2011	Journal Article Health Services Research
How Do Hospitals Cope with Sustained Slow Growth in Medicare Prices?Chapin White, Vivian Yalin Wu	Oct. 1, 2013	Journal Article Health Services Research
Small Firms' Demand for Health Insurance: The Decision to Offer InsuranceJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	Summer 2002	Journal Article Inquiry
Why Do Hispanics Have So Little Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?James D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Len M. Nichols	Fall 2007	Journal Article Inquiry
Insurance Product Design and Its EffectsPeter Kemper, Ha T. Tu, James D. Reschovsky, Elizabeth Schaefer	Summer 2002	Journal Article Inquiry
Health and the Cost of Nongroup InsuranceJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	Fall 2003	Journal Article Inquiry
Medicare Fees and Physicians' Medicare Service Volume: Beneficiaries Treated and Services per BeneficiaryJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	June 2006	Journal Article International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Worker Decisions to Purchase Health InsuranceLinda J. Blumberg, Len M. Nichols, Jessica S. Banthin	September 2001	Journal Article International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician PaymentPaul B. Ginsburg	Aug. 12, 2013	Journal Article JAMA Internal Medicine
Strategies to Enhance Price and Quality Competition in Health Care: Lessons Learned from Tracking Local MarketsCara S. Lesser, Paul B. Ginsburg	June 2006	Journal Article Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Prescription Drug Spending for Medicare+Choice Beneficiaries in the Last Year of LifeCheryl Fahlman, Joanne Lynn, Danielle Doberman, Jon R. Gabel, Mike Finch	August 2006	Journal Article Journal of Palliative Medicine
Declining Employer-Sponsored CoveragePeter J. Cunningham	March 2002	Journal Article Medical Care Research and Review
The Effects of SCHIP on Children's Health Insurance CoveragePeter J. Cunningham, Jack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	December 2002	Journal Article Medical Care Research and Review
Health Care's Role in Deficit Reduction—Guiding PrinciplesPaul B. Ginsburg, Chapin White	Oct. 27, 2011	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Reforming Provider Payment—The Price Side of the EquationPaul B. Ginsburg	Oct. 6, 2011	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Slower Growth in Medicare Spending—Is This the New Normal?Chapin White, Paul B. Ginsburg	March 7, 2012	Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine
Medicare Spending Limits: Issues and ImplicationsChapin White	March 26, 2013	Kaiser Family Foundation Report
The Fraying Link Between Work and Health InsurancePeter J. Cunningham, Samantha Artiga, Karyn Schwartz	November 2008	Kaiser Family Foundation Report