Issue Briefs

ssue Briefs are designed to provide readers with relatively short, analytical research results that are policy relevant. Issue Briefs include the broader context for the research and lay out the range of related policy implications. The publications offer original HSC research results, summarize and make more accessible HSC research results that appear in peer-reviewed journals or report HSC conference proceedings. Most of the Issue Briefs are based on data from the CTS household, physician and employer surveys, CTS Site Visits or the Health Tracking Household and Physician Surveys.

Title	Date	Document Info
Paying for Quality: Health Plans Try Carrots Instead of Sticks	May 2004	Issue Brief No. 82
Perception, Reality and Health Insurance: Uninsured as Likely as Insured to Perceive Need for Care but Half as Likely to Get Care	October 2005	Issue Brief No. 100
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still Dominates	January 2007	Issue Brief No. 108
Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban America	January 2005	Issue Brief No. 92
Physicians and Care Management: More Acceptance than You Think	January 2003	Issue Brief No. 60
Physicians More Likely to Face Quality Incentives than Incentives That May Restrain Care	January 2002	Issue Brief No. 48
Physicians Pulling Back from Charity Care	August 2001	Issue Brief No. 42
Physicians Slow to E-mail Routinely with Patients	October 2010	Issue Brief No. 134
Policy Implications of Risk Selection in Medicare HMOs:	November 1996	Issue Brief No. 04
Preferred Provider Organizations and Medicare: Is There an Advantage?	April 2004	Issue Brief No. 81
Premium Subsidies for Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage	December 2001	Issue Brief No. 47
Prescription Drug Access Disparities Among Working-Age Americans	December 2003	Issue Brief No. 73
Prescription Drug Access: Not Just a Medicare Problem	April 2002	Issue Brief No. 51
Provider Network Instability: Implications for Choice, Costs and Continuity of Care	June 2001	Issue Brief No. 39
Public Coverage Provides Vital Safety Net for Children with Special Health Care Needs	September 2005	Issue Brief No. 98
Public Health Departments Adapt to Medicaid Managed Care	November 1998	Issue Brief No. 16
Race, Ethnicity and Preventive Services:	January 2001	Issue Brief No. 34
Recent Trends in Children's Health Insurance	April 2000	Issue Brief No. 29
Relief, Restoration and Reform: Economic Upturn Yields Modest and Uneven Health Returns	January 2008	Issue Brief No. 117
Reversal of Fortune: Medicare+Choice Collides with Market Forces	May 2002	Issue Brief No. 52
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Employer Views on Consumer-Driven Health Care	July 2004	Issue Brief No. 86
Rising Health Costs, Medical Debt and Chronic Conditions	September 2004	Issue Brief No. 88
Rising Hospital Employment of Physicians: Better Quality, Higher Costs?	August 2011	Issue Brief No. 136
Rising Pressure: Hospital Emergency Departments as Barometers of the Health Care System	Nov. 18, 2005	Issue Brief No. 101
Rising Rates of Chronic Health Conditions: What Can Be Done?	November 2008	Issue Brief No. 125
Safety Net Hospital Emergency Departments: Creating Safety Valves for Non-Urgent Care	May 2008	Issue Brief No. 120
SCHIP, Medicaid Expansions Lead to Shifts in Children's Coverage	December 2002	Issue Brief No. 59
Seeking Health Care Information: Most Consumers Still on the Sidelines	March 2003	Issue Brief No. 61
Small Employers and Self-Insured Health Benefits: Too Small to Succeed?	July 2012	Issue Brief No. 138
Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers?	April 2003	Issue Brief No. 62
Stand-Alone Health Insurance Tax Credits Aren't Enough	July 2001	Issue Brief No. 41
Stretching the Safety Net to Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health Needs	February 2006	Issue Brief No. 104
Tax Credits and Purchasing Pools: Will This Marriage Work?	April 2001	Issue Brief No. 36
Tax Credits and the Affordability of Individual Health Insurance	July 2002	Issue Brief No. 53
The Community Safety Net and Prescription Drug Access for Low-Income, Uninsured People	April 2006	Issue Brief No. 105
The Community Tracking Study:	August 1996	Issue Brief No. 01
The Health Care Safety Net: Money Matters but Savvy Leadership Counts	August 2003	Issue Brief No. 66
The Individual Health Insurance Market	December 2002	Issue Brief No. 58
The Role of Health Insurance Brokers	October 2002	Issue Brief No. 57
The Scope of Care Expected of Primary Care Physicians:	December 1999	Issue Brief No. 24