HSC Publications

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Title	Date	Document Info
A Long and Winding Road: Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Variation and Prospects Under Reform	November 2011	HSC Research Brief No. 21
Limited Options to Manage Specialty Drug Spending	April 2012	HSC Research Brief No. 22
Dispelling Myths About Emergency Department Use: Majority of Medicaid Visits Are for Urgent or More Serious Symptoms	July 2012	HSC Research Brief No. 23
Emergency Preparedness and Community Coalitions: Opportunities and Challenges	November 2012	HSC Research Brief No. 24
Local Public Hospitals: Changing with the Times	November 2012	HSC Research Brief No. 25
The Surge in Urgent Care Centers: Emergency Department Alternative or Costly Convenience?	July 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 26
High and Varying Prices for Privately Insured Patients Underscore Hospital Market Power	September 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 27
If the Price is Right, Most Uninsured—Even Young Invincibles—Likely to Consider New Health Insurance Marketplaces	September 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 28
Despite Rapid Growth, Retail Clinic Use Remains Modest	November 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 29
The Role of Nurses in Hospital Quality Improvement	March 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 3
The Potential of Reference Pricing to Generate Health Care Savings: Lessons from a California Pioneer	December 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 30
Privately Insured People’s Use of Emergency Departments: Perception of Urgency is Reality for Patients	December 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 31
Public Health Workforce Shortages Imperil Nation's Health	April 16, 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 4
Developing Health System Surge Capacity: Community Efforts in Jeopardy	June 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 5
Getting What We Pay For: Innovations Lacking in Provider Payment Reform for Chronic Disease Care	June 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 6
A Health Plan Work in Progress: Hospital-Physician Price and Quality Transparency	August 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 7
How Engaged Are Consumers in Their Health and Health Care, and Why Does It Matter	October 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 8
Word of Mouth and Physician Referrals Still Drive Health Care Provider Choice	December 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 9
The Community Snapshots Project	1995	Indianapolis, Ind.
The Community Tracking Study:	August 1996	Issue Brief No. 01
Tracking Changes in the Public Health System:	September 1996	Issue Brief No. 02
Medicaid Eligibility Policy and the Crowding-Out Effect:	October 1996	Issue Brief No. 03
Policy Implications of Risk Selection in Medicare HMOs:	November 1996	Issue Brief No. 04
A Primer on Understanding Health Care Cost Trends:	December 1996	Issue Brief No. 05
Tracking Health Care Costs:	January 1997	Issue Brief No. 06
An Inadequate Supply of Qualified People Will Slow the Pace of Health System Change	March 1997	Issue Brief No. 07
Access to Health Care:	April 1997	Issue Brief No. 08
Patients, Profits and Health System Change:	May 1997	Issue Brief No. 09
Health Care Costs:	June 1997	Issue Brief No. 10
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
Rising Pressure: Hospital Emergency Departments as Barometers of the Health Care System	Nov. 18, 2005	Issue Brief No. 101
Can Money Buy Quality? Physician Response to Pay for Performance	December 2005	Issue Brief No. 102
Do Specialty Hospitals Promote Price Competition?	January 2006	Issue Brief No. 103
Stretching the Safety Net to Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health Needs	February 2006	Issue Brief No. 104
The Community Safety Net and Prescription Drug Access for Low-Income, Uninsured People	April 2006	Issue Brief No. 105
Clinical Information Technology Gaps Persist Among Physicians	November 2006	Issue Brief No. 106
Behind the Slow Growth of Employer-Based Consumer-Driven Health Plans	December 2006	Issue Brief No. 107
Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches Up, but Productivity Still Dominates	January 2007	Issue Brief No. 108
Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health Care	February 2007	Issue Brief No. 109
Will Hospital Report Cards Make the Grade?	July 1997	Issue Brief No. 11