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
Achieving Health Care Cost Containment Through Provider Payment Reform that Engages Patients and ProvidersPaul B. Ginsburg	May 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Addressing Spending Trends in MassachusettsPaul B. Ginsburg	March 18, 2010	Testimony
As the Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Turns: What Next?Joy M. Grossman, Paul B. Ginsburg	November/December 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs
Association Health Plans and Alternative Ways to Increase Health Insurance Coverage Among Workers in Small FirmsLen M. Nichols	Feb. 5, 2003	Congressional Testimony
Changes in Health Plans Serving Medicaid, 1993-1996Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Sara Yang	September/October 1997	Health Affairs
Children's Health Coverage: A Quarter-Century of ChangePeter J. Cunningham, James Kirby	September/October 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs
CHIPing Away at the Problem of Uninsured ChildrenJames D. Reschovsky, Peter J. Cunningham	October 1998	Research Report No. 02
Choosing a Health Plan:Judith Hibbard, Jacquelyn Jewett, Mark W. Legnini, Martin Tusler	November/December 1997	Health Affairs
Competition, Quality of Care and the Role of the ConsumerCatherine G. McLaughlin, Paul B. Ginsburg	1998	The Milbank Quarterly
Consumer Price Shopping in Health Care	March 15, 2006	Congressional Testimony
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise and PerformanceJames C. Robinson, Paul B. Ginsburg	Jan. 27, 2009	Journal Article Health Affairs
Containing Health Care Costs: Market Forces and RegulationPaul B. Ginsburg	June 30, 2011	Testimony
Contrary to Cost-Shift Theory, Lower Medicare Hospital Payment Rates for Inpatient Care Lead to Lower Private Payment RatesChapin White	May 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Declining Employer-Sponsored CoveragePeter J. Cunningham	March 2002	Journal Article Medical Care Research and Review
Do Consumers Know How Their Health Plan Works?Peter J. Cunningham, Charles Denk, Michael Sinclair	March/April 2001	Health Affairs
Do Reimbursement Delays Discourage Medicaid Participation by Physicians?Peter J. Cunningham, Ann S. O'Malley	Nov. 18, 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Don't Break Out the Champagne: Continued Slowing of Health Care Spending Growth Unlikely to LastPaul B. Ginsburg	January/February 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance:Sally Trude, Jon B. Christianson, Cara S. Lesser, Carolyn A. Watts, Andrea Staiti	January/February 2002	Health Affairs
Employers' Views on Incremental Measures to Expand Health CoverageHeidi H. Whitmore, Sara R. Collins, Jon R. Gabel, Jeremy D. Pickreign	November/December 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Univeral CoveragePaul B. Ginsburg	May/June 2008	Journal Article Health Affairs