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
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