We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

Michael Batty is an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington, D.C. Benedic Ippolito ( [email protected]) is an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. Hospitals in ...

Commercial health plans pay higher prices than public payers for hospital care, which accounts for more than 5 percent of US gross domestic product. Crafting effective policy responses requires ...

Jeffrey R. Brown ( [email protected]) is the Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gopi Shah Goda is a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic ...

Darius Lakdawalla ([email protected]) is the director of research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in Santa Monica, California. Dana Goldman is chair and director of health economics, ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...

Dana P. Goldman ([email protected]), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. During the past five years, many states have imposed out-of-pocket spending caps on insulin. In most ...

We analyzed specialty drug coverage decisions issued by the largest US commercial health plans to examine variation in coverage and the consistency of those decisions with indications approved by the ...

At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...

Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...

James J. Crall ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles ...

Jamila Michener ([email protected]), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This article examines how racially and economically marginalized tenants built political power in response to ...