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Title	Date	Document Info	Author
Shopping for Price in Medical Care	March 2006	Working Paper	Paul Ginsburg
Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003	June 2006	Tracking Report No. 15	Paul Ginsburg
Physician Acceptance of New Medicare Patients Stabilizes in 2004-05	January 2006	Tracking Report No. 12	Paul Ginsburg
Containing Health Care Costs: Market Forces and Regulation	June 30, 2011	Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
Addressing Spending Trends in Massachusetts	March 18, 2010	Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
Hospital Rate Setting in Maryland	March 22, 2010	Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
Ginsburg Responds to Questions on Managed Care Providers	April 10, 2003	Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
High Prices, Low Transparency: The Bitter Pill of Health Care Costs	June 18, 2013	Senate Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
Market and Regulatory Responses to Provider Market Power	May 15, 2013	Presentation	Paul Ginsburg
Developments Affecting Health Care Spending and What Can Be Done	July 12, 2011	Presentation	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care Costs 101	March 28, 2008	Presentation	Paul Ginsburg
Ten Years of Tracking Health System Change: The Evolution of Competition	Feb. 2, 2005	Presentation	Paul Ginsburg
Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule—Much Activity, Little Change	March 22, 2007	Perspective	Paul Ginsburg
Fostering Health Information Technology in Small Physician Practices: Lessons from Independent Practice Associations	June 2011	NIHCR Research Brief No. 5	Paul Ginsburg
Lessons from the Field: Making Accountable Care Organizations Real	January 2011	NIHCR Research Brief No. 2	Paul Ginsburg
Addressing Hospital Pricing Leverage through Regulation: State Rate Setting	May 2012	NIHCR Policy Analysis No. 9	Paul Ginsburg
Episode-Based Payments: Charting a Course for Health Care Payment Reform	January 2010	NIHCR Policy Analysis No. 1	Paul Ginsburg
Spending to Save—ACOs and the Medicare Shared Savings Program	May 25, 2011	Journal Article Abstract	Paul Ginsburg
Achieving Health Care Cost Containment Through Provider Payment Reform that Engages Patients and Providers	May 2013	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Fee-for-Service Will Remain a Feature of Major Payment Reforms, Requiring More Changes in Medicare Physician Payment	September 2012	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
The Growing Power of Some Providers to Win Steep Payment Increases from Insurers Suggests Policy Remedies May be Needed	May 2012	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Slower Growth in Medicare Spending—Is This the New Normal?	March 7, 2012	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care's Role in Deficit Reduction—Guiding Principles	Oct. 27, 2011	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Reforming Provider Payment—The Price Side of the Equation	Oct. 6, 2011	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Payment and the Future of Primary Care	Feb. 4, 2003	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Improving Health Care Access for Low-Income People: Lessons from Ascension Health's Community Collaboratives Ascension Health's Community Efforts to Foster Safety Net Collaboration	July 2011	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Qualitative Methods: A Crucial Tool for Understanding Changes in Health Systems and Health Care Delivery	Jan. 21, 2011	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Rapidly Evolving Physician-Payment Policy -- More Than the SGR	Dec. 8, 2010	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Unchecked Provider Clout in California Foreshadows Challenges to Health Reform	Feb. 25, 2010	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Getting to the Real Issues in Health Care Reform	Nov. 12, 2009	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Why Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Changed, 1997-2003	May/June 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Strategies to Enhance Price and Quality Competition in Health Care: Lessons Learned from Tracking Local Markets	June 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Continued Stability But at High Rates in 2005	Oct. 3, 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Redesigning Care Delivery in Response to a High-Performance Network: The Virginia Mason Medical Center	July 10, 2007	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Unhealthy Trends: The Future of Physician Services	November/December 2007	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Don't Break Out the Champagne: Continued Slowing of Health Care Spending Growth Unlikely to Last	January/February 2008	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Employment-Based Health Benefits Under Univeral Coverage	May/June 2008	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Growth Accelerates Again in 2001	Sept. 25, 2002	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
The End of an Era: What Became of the "Managed Care Revolution" in 2001?	Feb. 21, 2003	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Can Hospitals and Physicians Shift the Effects of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement to Private Payers?	Oct. 8, 2003	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Are Market Forces Strong Enough to Deliver Efficient Health Care Systems? Confidence is Waning	March/April 2004	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Turn Downward in 2003	June 9, 2004	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
As the Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Turns: What Next?	November/December 2004	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Declining Growth Trend Pauses in 2004	June 21, 2005	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
When the Price Isn't Right: How Inadvertent Payment Incentives Drive Medical Care	Aug. 9, 2005	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Recalibrating Medicare Payments for Inpatient Care	Nov. 16, 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Hospital-Physician Relations: Cooperation, Competition or Separation?	Dec. 5, 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Shopping for Price in Medical Care	Feb. 6, 2007	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Competition in Health Care: Its Evolution Over the Past Decade	November/December 2005	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
The Effect of Population Aging on Future Hospital Demand	March 28, 2006	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Paying Hospitals on the Basis of Nursing Intensity Policy and Political Considerations	May 2008	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
The Transition from Managed Care to Consumerism: A Community-Level Status Report	September/October 2008	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise and Performance	Jan. 27, 2009	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It?	September/October 2009	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy	September/October 2009	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician Payment	Aug. 12, 2013	Journal Article	Paul Ginsburg
Initial Findings from HSC's 2005 Site Visits: Stage Set for Growing Health Care Cost and Access Problems	August 2005	Issue Brief No. 97	Paul Ginsburg
An Update on Medicare Beneficiary Access to Physician Services	February 2005	Issue Brief No. 93	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Slowdown Stalls in First Half of 2004	December 2004	Issue Brief No. 91	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care Cost and Access Problems Intensify Initial Findings From HSC's Recent Site Visits	May 2003	Issue Brief No. 63	Paul Ginsburg
Specialty Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers?	April 2003	Issue Brief No. 62	Paul Ginsburg
Growing Physician Access Problems Complicate Medicare Payment Debate	September 2002	Issue Brief No. 55	Paul Ginsburg
Tax Credits and Purchasing Pools: Will This Marriage Work?	April 2001	Issue Brief No. 36	Paul Ginsburg
Back To The Future? New Cost and Access Challenges Emerge Initial Findings from HSC's Recent Site Visits	February 2001	Issue Brief No. 35	Paul Ginsburg
At the Brink: How Harvard Pilgrim Got in Trouble	December 2000	Issue Brief No. 33	Paul Ginsburg
Are Defined Contributions a New Direction for Employer-Sponsored Coverage?	October 2000	Issue Brief No. 32	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Long-Predicted Upturn Appears	November 1999	Issue Brief No. 23	Paul Ginsburg
Small Employers and Self-Insured Health Benefits: Too Small to Succeed?	July 2012	Issue Brief No. 138	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care Cost and Access Challenges Persist Initial Findings From HSC's 2007 Site Visits	October 2007	Issue Brief No. 114	Paul Ginsburg
Distorted Payment System Undermines Business Case for Health Quality and Efficiency Gains	July 2007	Issue Brief No. 112	Paul Ginsburg
High-Performance Health Plan Networks: Early Experiences	May 2007	Issue Brief No. 111	Paul Ginsburg
Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health Care	February 2007	Issue Brief No. 109	Paul Ginsburg
A Health Plan Work in Progress: Hospital-Physician Price and Quality Transparency	August 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 7	Paul Ginsburg
The Potential of Reference Pricing to Generate Health Care Savings: Lessons from a California Pioneer	December 2013	HSC Research Brief No. 30	Paul Ginsburg
Wide Variation in Hospital and Physician Payment Rates Evidence of Provider Market Power	November 2010	HSC Research Brief No. 16	Paul Ginsburg
Individual Insurance: Health Insurers Try to Tap Potential Market Growth	November 2009	HSC Research Brief No. 14	Paul Ginsburg
Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice	December 2008	HSC Policy Analysis No. 1	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Remains Stable at High Rate in 2005	October 2006	Data Bulletin No. 33	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Spending Growth Stabilizes at High Rate in 2004	June 2005	Data Bulletin No. 29	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Turn Downward in 2003	June 2004	Data Bulletin No. 27	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Trends Slow in First Half of 2003	December 2003	Data Bulletin No. 26	Paul Ginsburg
Behind the Times: Physician Income, 1995-99	March 2003	Data Bulletin No. 24	Paul Ginsburg
Aging Plays Limited Role in Health Care Cost Trends	September 2002	Data Bulletin No. 23	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs Hospital Spending Spurs Double-Digit Increase in 2001	September 2002	Data Bulletin No. 22	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Hospital Care Key Cost Driver in 2000	September 2001	Data Bulletin No. 21 - Revised	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care Provider Market Power	Sept. 9, 2011	Congressional Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
Senate Finance Committee Testimony on Health Care Costs	June 3, 2008	Congressional Testimony	Paul Ginsburg
The Community Snapshots Project Capturing Health System Change	March 1996	Compilation of Snapshots	Paul Ginsburg
Health System Change in Twelve Communities Case Studies	September 1997	Compilation of 1996-97 Site Visits	Paul Ginsburg
Community Quality Efforts Expand as Seattle Health Plan Products Evolve	September 2005	Community Report No. 7	Paul Ginsburg
Blue Cross Influence Grows in Boston as State Revisits Reform Debates	December 2005	Community Report No. 11	Paul Ginsburg
Physicians Key to Health Maintenance Organization Popularity in Orange County	August 2011	Community Report No. 10	Paul Ginsburg
State Reform Dominates Boston Health Care Market Dynamics	September 2010	Community Report No. 1	Paul Ginsburg
HMO Model Shaken but Remains Intact Orange County, Calif.	Summer 2001	Community Report No. 09	Paul Ginsburg
Market Concentration Increases but Power Held in Check: Lansing, Michigan	Winter 1999	Community Report No. 05	Paul Ginsburg
Increased Consolidation Raises Concerns Cleveland, Ohio	Fall 2000	Community Report No. 02	Paul Ginsburg
Working at Cross Purposes: Health Care Expansions May Jumpstart Local Economies but Fuel Nation's Fiscal Woes	August 2011	Commentary No. 5	Paul Ginsburg
Health Care Quality Transparency: If You Build It, Will Patients Come?	July 2009	Commentary No. 4	Paul Ginsburg
A Decade of Tracking Health System Change	March 2006	Commentary No. 2	Paul Ginsburg
"Bundling" Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care: Issues and Recommendations for the New Pilot Program in Medicare	July 18, 2011	Commentary	Paul Ginsburg
Efficiency and Quality: The Role of Controlling Health Care Cost Growth in Health Care Reform	June 3, 2009	Commentary	Paul Ginsburg
Tax-free But of Little Account Without Changes, Health Savings Plans Unlikely to Achieve Lofty Goals	Feb. 16, 2004	Commentary	Paul Ginsburg
Controlling Health Care Costs	Oct. 14, 2004	Commentary	Paul Ginsburg
Shifting Ground: Erosion of the Delegated Model in California	December 2009	California HealthCare Foundation Issue Brief	Paul Ginsburg
Private Payer Roles in moving to More Efficient Health Spending	March 15, 2007	Book Chapter	Paul Ginsburg
Provider Payment Incentives and Delivery System Reform	October 2008	Book Chapter	Paul Ginsburg
The Health Care Cost-Coverage Conundrum The Care We Want vs. The Care We Can Afford	Fall 2003	Annual Essay 2002-03	Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Small-Firm Coverage, 1989-1996	January/February 1998		Paul Ginsburg
Snapshots of Change in Fifteen Communities: Introduction and Overview	Summer 1996		Paul Ginsburg
Health System Change: The View from Wall Street	Winter 1995		Paul Ginsburg
Rate Setting and Health Maintenance Organizations	Fall 1996		Paul Ginsburg
Association Leaders Speak Out on Health System Change	January/February 1997		Paul Ginsburg
The Dynamics of Market Level Change	April 1997		Paul Ginsburg
Trends In Out-Of-Pocket Spending By Insured American Workers, 1990-1997 The 1990s were kind to insured health care consumers--lower out-of-pocket spending offset rising premiums.	March/April 2001		Paul Ginsburg
Monitoring Market Change: Findings from the Community Tracking Study: The Community Tracking Study Analyses of Market Change: Introduction	April 2000		Paul Ginsburg
Health Plans 2010: Three Models	September/October 1998		Paul Ginsburg
The Robert Wood Johnson Program to Monitor Health System Change	Spring 1995		Paul Ginsburg
What Accounts for Differences in Uninsurance Rates Across Communities?	Spring 2001		Paul Ginsburg
Small Employers and Their Health Benefits, 1988-1996: An Awkward Adolescence	September/October 1997		Paul Ginsburg
Managed Care Backlash: The View from Communities	October 1999		Paul Ginsburg
Health System Change in 1997	July/August 1998		Paul Ginsburg
Competition, Quality of Care and the Role of the Consumer	1998		Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: An Update	July/August 1997		Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs	Fall 1996		Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs Hospital Care Surpasses Drugs as the Key Cost Driver	September 26th 2001		Paul Ginsburg
Health Spending: Questioning the Assumptions	January/February 1999		Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: What�s New in 1998?	September/October 1998		Paul Ginsburg
Tracking Health Care Costs: Inflation Is Back	November/December 2000		Paul Ginsburg
Update on the Nation�s Health Care System: Results from Tracking Change in 12 Communities, 1997-1999	November/December 2000		Paul Ginsburg
Are Focused Factories the Wave of the Future?	Spring 2000		Paul Ginsburg
Withering on the Vine: The Decline of Indemnity Health Insurance	September/October 2000		Paul Ginsburg

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