Cost Shifting Under Managed Behavioral Health
Care. S. Zuvekas, A. Rupp, G. Norquist, Psychiatric
Services 58(1): January 2007, 100-108. Examines whether a managed
behavioral health care organization shifted mental health treatment costs from
specialty care to primary care treatment or prescription drugs. (AHRQ
07-R036)
Do Different Measures of Hospital Competition
Matter in Empirical Investigations of Hospital Behavior? H. Wong,
C. Zhan, R. Mutter, Review of Industrial Organization 26:2005,
61-87. Reviews the literature on hospital competition measures, recreates
versions and evaluates these measures, and assesses whether different measures
of hospital competition matter in empirical investigations of hospital
behavior. (AHRQ 05-R050)
Do HMOs Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations
for Medicare Beneficiaries? J. Basu, L. Mobley, Medical Care
Research and Review 64(5): October 2007, 544-567. Uses 2001 hospital
discharge abstracts for Medicare enrollees to assess the association of HMO
enrollment with preventable hospitalizations among the elderly in four States:
New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and California. (AHRQ 08-R005)
Have State Caps on Malpractice Awards
Increased the Supply of Physicians? W. Encinosa, F. Hellinger,
Health Affairs May 2005, 250-258. Uses county-level data from all 50
States from 1985 to 2000 to examine whether laws that cap payment for
noneconomic damages in malpractice cases have increased the supply of
physicians. (AHRQ 06-R001)
Health Plan Liability and ERISA: The
Expanding Scope of State Legislation. F. Hellinger, G. Young,
American Journal of Public Health 95(2): February 2005, 217-223.
Examines the intent, scope, and impact of recent laws passed in 10 States
attempting to expand the legal rights of health plan enrollees to sue their
plans. (AHRQ 05-R039)
The Impact of State Laws Limiting Malpractice
Damage Awards on Health Care Expenditures. F. Hellinger, W.
Encinosa, American Journal of Public Health August 2006, 1375-1381.
Examines the impact of State tort reform laws that directly limit malpractice
damage payments on health care expenditures. (AHRQ 06-R073).
The Impacts of Mental Health Parity and
Managed Care in One Large Employer Group: A Reexamination. S.
Zuvekas, A. Rupp, G. Norquist, Health Affairs
24(6): November/December 2005, 1668-1671. Reexamines a study published by S.
Zuvekas and colleagues, which found that the number of people receiving mental
health/substance abuse treatment increased by almost 50 percent after the
introduction of mental health parity and a managed behavioral health care
organization. Reexamines the data using multivariate panel data methods to
determine the extent to which secular trends might explain the increases.
(AHRQ 06-R016)
Responses of Israeli HMOs to Environmental
Change Following the National Health Insurance Law: Opening the Black
Box. R. Gross, M. Harrison, Health Policy 76:2006,
213-232. Highlights how the interaction among organizational history,
managerial choice, and environmental constraints creates divergence in
organizational responses to national policy initiatives. (AHRQ 06-R041)
Sustaining and Improving Hospital
Performance: The Effects of Organizational and Market Forces. H.
Jiang, B. Friedman, J. Begun, Health Care Management Review
31(3): July-September 2006, 188-196. Using data from hospitals in 10 States,
examines the effects of organizational and market factors on the likelihood of
becoming high-quality/low-cost providers during the period of 1997-2001.
Highlights the role of previous performance, internal operations, and market
competition in hospital performance improvements. (AHRQ 06-R067)
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