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AHP Report Documents

Understanding Changes in Prescription Drug Coverage for People with Disabilities on Medicare

Prescription Drugs and Medicare Part D

• Jack Hoadley, Laura Summer and Jennifer Thompson, "The Role of Beneficiary-Centered Assignment for Medicare Part D" (PDF). MEDPAC, June 2007.
• Laura Summer, Patricia Nemore and Jeanna Finberg, "Improving the Medicare Part D Program for the Most Vulnerable Beneficiaries" (HTML). The Commonwealth Fund, May 2007.
• Jeffrey Crowley and Jocelyn Guyer, "Medicare Modernization Act: An Early Look at Medicare Plan Options for Connecticut's Medicare Beneficiaries." Issue Brief and Press Release (PDF). Connecticut Health Foundation, January 2006.
• Ellen O'Brien, "Will Prescription Drug Coverage for the Low-Income Elderly Pay for Itself?" (PDF) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 2003.
  
  

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Health Savings Accounts

• Mila Kofman, "Issue Brief:  HSAs: Issues and Implementation Decisions for States." (PDF) State Coverage Initiatives V(3), September 2004.
  
  

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Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP
(See also Long-Term Care)

• Laura Summer, Getting and Keeping Coverage: States' Experience with Citizenship Documentation Rules (HTML), Commonwealth Fund, January, 2009.
  
  
• Jocelyn Guyer, Michael Odeh, and Cindy Mann, Out of Touch: A Status Report on CMS's August 17th Directive (HTML), Center for Children and Families, May 2008.
  
  
• Medicaid and State Budgets: Looking at the Facts (HTML), Center for Children and Families , May 2008
  
  
• Jocelyn Guyer and Michael Odeh, SCHIP Funding in the Year Ahead: Implications of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act (HTML), Center for Children and Families , March 2008
  
  
• Cindy Mann and Michael Odeh, Moving Backward: Status Report of Aug. 17, 2007 Directive 
 (HTML), Center for Children and Families , December 2007
  
  
• The Growing Health Insurance Affordability Gap for Children and Families (HTML), Center for Children and Families, October 2007
  
  
• American Families Face Harsh Reality (HTML) Center for Children and Families, October 2007
  
  
• Coverage of Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP (HTML), Center for Children and Families , October 2007
  
  
• Cindy Mann and Michael Odeh, Moving Backward: New Federally Imposed Limits on States’ Ability to Cover Children (HTML), Center for Children and Families, August 2007
  
  
• Children’s Health Coverage: States Moving Forward (HTML), Center for Children and Families, July 2007
  
  
• Cindy Mann and Michael Odeh, SCHIP Reauthorization: Can The Nation Move Forward Without Going Backward? (HTML), Center for Children and Families , June 2007
  
  
• Making Real Gains for Children: Strategies for Reaching the More Than Six Million Uninsured Children Eligible for Medicaid/SCHIP (HTML), Center for Children and Families, June 2007
  
  
• Lisa Dubay, Jocelyn Guyer, Cindy Mann, and Michael Odeh, Medicaid at the Ten-Year Anniversary of SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward (HTML), Center for Children and Families, March 2007
  
  
• Laura Summer and Cindy Mann, "Instability of Public Health Insurance Coverage for Children and Their Families: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies." (HTML) The Commonwealth Fund, June 2006.
  
  
• Laura Summer and Emily Ihara, Simplifying Medicaid Enrollment for the Elderly and People with Disabilities, with Emily Ihara, AARP Public Policy Institute, December 2005.
  
  
• Laura Summer, Administrative Costs Associated with Enrollment and Renewal for the Medicare Savings Programs: A Case Study of Practices in New Hampshire, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, November 2005.
  
  
• Laura Summer and Emily Ihara, The Medicaid Personal Care Services Benefit, Practices in States that Offer the Optional State Plan Benefit, with Emily Ihara, AARP Public Policy Institute, August 2005.
  
  
• Laura Summer, Administrative Costs Associated with Enrollment and Renewal for the Medicare Savings Programs: A Case Study of Practices in Louisiana, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, February 2005.
  
  
• Cindy Mann, Health Policy Institute, and Robin Rudowitz. "Financing Health Coverage: The State Children's Health Insurance Program Experience." (HTML) Issue Paper. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, February 2005.
  
  
• Cindy Mann and Tim Westmoreland. "Attending to Medicaid." (PDF) The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Fall 2004.
  
  
• Ellen O'Brien, Health Policy Institute, and Risa Elias "Medicaid and Long-Term Care" (PDF), Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 2004.
  
  
• Laura Summer, How Asset Tests Block Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries from Needed Benefits, with Lee Thompson, The Commonwealth Fund, May 2004.
  
  
• Cindy Mann, Health Policy Institute, Diane Rowland and Rachel Garfield, "Historical Overview of Children's Health Care Coverage" (HTML and PDF), Packard Journal on the Future of Children, Spring 2003.
  
  
• Michael E. Gluck and Kristina W. Hanson, "Medicare Chart Book, Second Edition," The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Fall 2001.
  
  
• Jeffrey S. Crowley, “Major Differences in the BBA Medicaid Managed Care Regulation: Clinton Administration Final Rule Compared with the Bush Administration Proposed Rule”, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. October 2001.
  
  
• Laura Summer Increasing Enrollment for the Medicare Savings Program (PDF), August 2001. (Center for Medicare Education)
  
  
• Nelda McCall, Harriet L. Komisar, Andrew Petersons, and Stanley Moore, "Medicare Home Health Before and After the Balanced Budget Act," Health Affairs 20(3): 189-198, May/June 2001.
  
  
• Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar, and Marlene Niefeld, “The Financing and Organization of Health Care,” in Robert H. Binstock and Linda C. George, editors, Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Fifth Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001.
  
  
• Harriet L. Komisar, Judith Feder, and Daniel Gilden, "The Roles of Medicare and Medicaid in Financing Health and Long-Term Care for Low-Income Seniors: A Chart Book on Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees in Four States." The Commonwealth Fund, NY, September 2000.
  
  
• Geraldine Dallek and Donald Jones, "Early Implementation of Medicare+Choice in Four Sites: Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and Tampa-St. Petersburg" New York: The Commonwealth Fund, August 2000.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley "Building Strong Medicaid Managed Care Programs: A Guide to Help Consumer Advocates Participate in Strengthening HIV/AIDS Provisions in Managed Care Contracts", National Association of People With AIDS. May 2000.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley "Making Medicaid Managed Care Work: An Action Plan for People Living with HIV", National Association of People With AIDS. Second edition: May 2000.
  
  
• John Holahan, Cori Uccello and Judith Feder, "Children's Health Insurance: The Difference Policy Choices Make." Kaiser Family Foundation, Project on Incremental Health Reform, October 1999.
  
  
• Ellen O'Brien, Diane Rowland, and Patricia Keenan, "Medicare and Medicaid for the Elderly and Disabled Poor," Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 1999.
  
  
• Laura Summer Successful Outreach Strategies: Ten Programs That Link Children to Health Services (PDF), January 1999. (National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse)
  
  
• Paul Offner, Medicaid and the States. The Century Foundation Press, NY, 1999.
  
  
• Harriet L. Komisar and Judith Feder. "The Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Effects on Medicare's Home Health Benefit and Beneficiaries Who Need Long-Term Care." The Commonwealth Fund, February 1998.
  
  
• Harriet L. Komisar, James A. Reuter, Judith Feder, and Patricia Neuman, Medicare Chart Book. Washington, DC: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 1997.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley "Making Medicaid Managed Care Work: An Action Plan for People Living with HIV," National Association of People With AIDS. First edition: March 1997.
  
  
• Margaret Davis and Ellen O'Brien, "Profile of Persons with Disabilities in Medicare and Medicaid," Health Care Financing Review, volume 17, no. 4, 1996.
  

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Consumer Protections

• Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Kevin Lucia, Mila Kofman, Health Policy Institute, and Karen Montgomery and Holly Whelan, American Diabetes Association, "Falling Through the Cracks: Stories of How Health Insurance Can Fail People with Diabetes." (PDF) American Diabetes Association, February 2005.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Kevin Lucia, and Eliza Bangit, "Proliferation of Phony Health Insurance:  States and the Federal Government Respond." (HTML) BNA Plus, Fall 2003.
   
  
• Mila Kofman, Kevin Lucia, and Eliza Bangit, "Health Insurance Scams:  How Government Is Responding and What Further Steps Are Necessary." (PDF)  Commonwealth Fund, August 2003.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, "Health Insurance Scams Promoted Through Associations:  A Primer" (PDF) The Insurance Receiver 11(3), Sept. 2002.
  
  
• Jeffrey S. Crowley and Stephanie Lewis, "Pieces of the Puzzle. Implementing the Report to Congress on Safeguards for People with Special Health Care Needs in Medicaid Managed Care: A Comparison of Withdrawn Clinton Administration Regulations with the Bush Administration's Proposed Rule." Prepared for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, October 2001.
  
  
• Stephanie Lewis, "A Guide to the Federal Patients' Bill of Rights Debate." (PDF) Prepared for the Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2001.
  
  
• Stephanie Lewis and Karen Pollitz, "Consumer Protection In Private Insurance: State Implementation And Enforcement Experience." (HTML)  Report for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 2000.
  
  
• Richard Sorian and Judith Feder, "Why We Need a Patients' Bill of Rights," Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 24, No. 5, October 1999.
  
  
• Ron Patterson, Geraldine Dallek, Elizabeth Hadley, Karen Pollitz, and Nicole Tapay, “Implementation of Managed Care Consumer Protections in Missouri, New Jersey, Texas and Vermont.” Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, CA, September 1999.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley and Massengale, R.L. "Protecting Your Private Health Insurance: How the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Could Help You", National Association of People With AIDS. August 1998.
  
  
• Kimberly J. Calder and Karen Pollitz, “What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance.” Published by the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Silver Spring, MD, 1998.
  
  
• Nicole Tapay, Karen Pollitz, Jalena Curtis, "Protection in Managed Care Plans: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Proposal Federal Legislation." (PDF, HTML) The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, July 1997.
  
  

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External Review

• Karen Pollitz, Jeff Crowley, Kevin Lucia, Eliza
  Bangit, "Assessing State External Review Programs and the Effects of Pending Federal Patients' Rights Legislation," (PDF) Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2002.
  
  
• Geraldine Dallek and Karen Pollitz, "External Review of Health Plan Decisions: An Update ." (PDF) The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2000.
  
  
• Karen Pollitz, Geraldine Dallek, and Nicole Tapay, "External Review of Health Plan Decisions in the States and Medicare ." (PDF) The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 1998.
  

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Health Insurance Expansion and the Uninsured

• Mila Kofman, Health Policy Institute, and Karl Polzer, "Federal Association Health Plans - Will This Proposal Remedy the Health Insurance Crisis?" (HTML) Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice 5(3) 167-173, August 2004.
  
  
• Joan Alker, Health Policy Institute, and Marcela Urrutia, "Immigrants and Health Coverage: A Primer" (PDF) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, June 2004.
  
  
• Karen Pollitz and Stephanie Lewis, “The Health Coverage Tax Credit for Trade Dislocated Workers and Retirees: Lessons from Maine’s Early Experience” (PDF) Report to the National Academy of State Health Policy and State of Maine Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance, March 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Health Policy Institute, and Karl Polzer, "Opinions Commentary, Disassociate from This Plan." (HTML) Invited Guest Column. Modern Healthcare, February 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Health Policy Institute, and Karl Polzer, "What Would Association Health Plans Mean for California?" Full Report(PDF) or Issue Brief (PDF). California HealthCare Foundation, January 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, "Group Purchasing Arrangements:  Issues for States." (PDF) Issue Brief. State Coverage Initiatives IV(3), April 2003.  
  
  
• Karen Pollitz, "Testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on the Proposed Use of Tax Credits for the Purchase of Private Health Insurance to Expand Health Insurance for the Uninsured," (PDF) and Attachment (PDF), March 12, 2002.
  
  
• Nicole Tapay and Judith Feder, "Impact of the Current Individual Insurance Marketplace on Coverage Expansion Proposals."(PDF) Kaiser Family Foundation, Project on Incremental Health Reform, October 1999.
  
  
• Karen Pollitz, “Extending Health Insurance to Older Workers: How Well Have Policies Worked?” in Peter Budetti, et.al., editors, Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2001.
  
  
• Judith Feder and Shiela Burke, "Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: A Report on a Policy Roundtable." (PDF) Kaiser Family Foundation, Project on Incremental Health Reform, October 1999.
  
  
• Judith Feder, Cori Uccello, and Ellen O'Brien, "The Difference Different Approaches Make: Alternative Approaches to Expanding Health Insurance,"(PDF) The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Project on Incremental Health Reform, October 1999.
  
  
• Ellen O'Brien, Alexandra Shields and Karen Pollitz, "The Uninsured: A Report on Health Insurance Coverage in America and Options for Reform," The American Academy of Family Physicians, February 1999.
  
  
• Ellen O'Brien and Judith Feder, "How Well Does the Employment-Based Health Insurance System Work for Low-Income Families?" (PDF) The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, September 1998.
  
  
• Laura Summer, State-Subsidized Health Insurance Programs for Low-Income Residents: Program Structure, Administration, and Costs (HTML), April 1998. (The Commonwealth Fund)
  
  

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Hospitals and the Safety Net

• Paul Offner,  "Politics and the Public Hospital in Our Capital" (forthcoming), Health Affairs, July-August, 2001.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, "Safety Net Hospitals: Essential Providers of Public Health and Specialty Services," (New York, NY: Commonwealth Fund), February 1999.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin and Jack Hadley, "Population Characteristics of Safety Net and Other Urban Hospitals' Markets", Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1999;76(3): 351-370.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, "The Hospital Safety Net: A Study of Inpatient Care for Non-Elderly Vulnerable Populations" in Access to Health Care: Promise and Prospects for Low-Income Americans, Lillie Blanton M., Martinez R.M., Lyons B., and Rowland D., eds. (Washington DC:The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation), 1999 pp. 123-138.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, "The Future of Public Hospitals", Joint Center Report on Health Policy, (Washington DC: Joint Center of Political and Economic Studies), September 1998.
  
  
• James Reuter and Darrell Gaskin, "The Role of Academic Health Center in Providing Care for the Poor" in The Future U.S. Health Care System: Who Will Care for the Poor and Uninsured?, Altman S., Reinhardt U., and Shields A., eds. (Chicago, Illinois: Health Administration Press), 1998 pp. 151-165.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, "Altruism versus Moral Hazard: The Impact of Hospital Uncompensated Care Pools" Journal of Health Economics 16(1997) 397-416.
  
  
• Jack Hadley and Darrell Gaskin, "HMO Penetration and Academic Health Center Hospitals' Missions, 1984-1991/92, in Academic Health Centers in the Managed Care Environment Korn D., McLaughlin C. Osterweis M., eds., (Washington D.C.: Association of Academic Health Centers), 1995, pp.151-172.
  
  
• James Reuter and Darrell Gaskin, "What's Happening to the Safety Net: Academic Health Centers in a Competitive Market", Health Affairs 16(4):242-252.
  
  

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Long-Term Care

(See also: Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project)

• Laura Summer and Emily Ihara, State-Funded Home and Community-Based Service Programs for Older People, AARP Public Policy Institute, October 2004.
  
  
• Laura L. Summer, Choices and consequences: The availability of community-based long-term care services to the low-income population, Health Policy Institute, May 2003.
  
  
• Laura Summer, Issue Brief: Creating Assisted Living Facilities: Expanding Options for Long-Term Care (PDF), March 2001. (National Governors Association)
  
  
• Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar, and Marlene Niefeld, "Financing Long-Term Care: Priorities for Targeting Public Resources," in Nelda McCall, editor, Who Will Pay for Long Term Care? Insights from the Partnership Programs (Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press, 2001); adapted from "Long-Term Care in the United States: An Overview," Health Affairs 19(3):40-56, May/June 2000.
  
  
• Laura Summer, Stateline: Creating Assisted Living Facilities: Expanding Options for Long-Term Care (PDF), February 2000. (National Governors' Association)
  
  
• Judith Feder, Harriet L. Komisar and Marlene Niefeld, "Long-Term Care in the United States: An Overview." Health Affairs, Volume 19, no. 3, pp. 40-56, 2000.
  
  
• Judith Feder. "Improving Public Financing for Long-Term Care: The Political Challenge." Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 1999, Volume 10, no. 3, pp. 1-6.
  
  
• Marlene Niefeld, Ellen O'Brien and Judith Feder. "Long-Term Care: Medicaid's Role and Challenges."(PDF) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, November 1999.
  
  
• Harriet L. Komisar and Judith Feder. "The President's Proposed Long-Term Care Initiative: Background and Issues"(HTML) The Commonwealth Fund, July 1999.
  
  
• Judith Feder, Jeanne Lambrew and Michele Huckaby. "Medicaid and Long-Term Care for the Elderly: Implications of Restructuring." Milbank Quarterly, 1997, Volume 75, no. 4: 425-59.
  
  
• Harriet Komisar, Janet Hunt-McCool, and Judith Feder. "Medicare Spending for Elderly Beneficiaries Who Need Long-Term Care." Inquiry, 1997, Volume 34, no. 4, pp. 302-10.
  
  
• Judith Feder and Jeanne Lambrew. "Why Medicare Matters to People Who Need Long-Term Care." Health Care Financing Review, 1996, Volume 18, no. 2:, pp. 99-112.
  
  
• Harriet L. Komisar, Jeanne M. Lambrew and Judith Feder. Long Term Care for the Elderly: A Chart Book. The Commonwealth Fund, December 1996.
  
  
• Judith Feder. "Health Care of the Disadvantaged: The Elderly." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1990, Volume15, no. 2, pp. 259-69.
  
  

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Managed Care

• Darrell Gaskin, "Access to Health Care in a Managed Care Environment", Joint Center Report on Health Policy, (Washington DC: Joint Center of Political and Economic Studies), Winter 1999/2000.
  
  
• Wendy Levinson, M.D., et. al. and Karen Pollitz, “Resolving Disagreements in the Patient-Physician Relationship, Tools for Improving Communication in Managed Care,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 282, Number 15, October 20, 1999.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley and Honberg, L. Coordinated a National Association of People With AIDS/HRSA collaboration to develop "Your Passport to Managed Care: A tool for making managed care work for you", National Association of People With AIDS. English version: March 1999, Spanish version: September 1999.
  
  
• Richard Sorian, “The Impact of the Managed Care Reform Debate on Public Policy, Politics, and Public Engagement,” The Pew Charitable Trusts, February 1999.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin and Kralewski J., The Impact of HMOs on Hospital Use and Cost? A Matter of Interpretation" American Journal of Managed Care, 1999;5(7):939-941.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin and Jack Hadley, "The Impact of HMO Penetration on the Rate of Hospital Cost Inflation, 1984-1993" Inquiry 1997;34(3):205-216.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, "The Impact of HMO Penetration on Hospitals That Serve Minority Communities" Medical Care 1997;35:1190-1203.
  
  

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Medical Privacy

• J. Zoe Beckerman, Joy Pritts, et al., "Health Information Privacy, Patient Safety, and Health Care Quality: Issues and Challenges in the Context of Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use" (PDF) Reproduced with permission from BNA's Health Care Policy Report, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jan. 14, 2008). Copyright 2008 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com>
  
  
• Joy Pritts, "The Implementation of E-consent Mechanisms in Three Countries: Canada, England, and the Netherlands" (PDF) March 2007.
  
  
• Joy Pritts, "Summary of Proposed Regulations on Banks and Medical Information" (PDF) May 2004.
  
  
• Joy Pritts, Angela Choy, Leigh Emmart, and Joanne Hustead, "The State of Health Privacy, Second Edition, A Survey of State Health Privacy Statues." June 2003.
  Volume 1 (Alabama-Montana) (PDF)
  Volume 2 (Nebraska-Wyoming) (PDF)
  
  
• Joy Pritts, Janlori Goldman, Zoe Hudson, Aimee Berenson and Elizabeth Hadley, "The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain." August 1999.
  

Private Insurance Market and Regulation

• Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, and Nicole Johnston, "Coverage When It Counts: What Does Health Insurance In Massachusetts Cover And How Can Consumers Know?" (PDF) Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, May 2009.

• Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, and Nicole Johnston, "Coverage When It Counts: What Does Health Insurance In California Cover And How Can Consumers Know?" (PDF) Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, May 2009.

• Karen Pollitz, Eliza Bangit, Jennifer Libster, Stephanie Lewis, and Nicole Johnston, "Coverage When It Counts: How much protection does health insurance offer and how can consumers know?" Center for American Progress, May 2009.

• Kevin Lucia and Susanne Addy, "Imposition of Durational Residency Requirements by State High-Risk Pools: Constitutional Considerations." Journal of Insurance Regulation, Winter 2006, 25(2).
  
  
• Karen Pollitz, “Can Access to Affordable Individual Health Insurance Be Sustained?” in Joel Cantor and Alan Monheit, editors, State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets. Routledge Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Eliza Bangit, and Kevin Lucia, "Multiple Employer Arrangements:  Another Piece of a Puzzle, Analysis of Form M-1 Filings." (HTML) Journal of Insurance Regulation 63, December 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Eliza Bangit, and Kevin Lucia, "MEWAs:  The Threat of Plan Insolvency and Other Challenges." (PDF) Commonwealth Fund, March 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Health Policy Institute, and Jennifer Libster, "New York:  A Case Study on Private Market Reforms, History, Impact on Public Programs, and Other Issues." A Report to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Spring 2004.
  
  
• Mila Kofman, Eliza Bangit, and Kevin Lucia, "Insurance Markets: Group Purchasing Arrangements:  Implications of MEWAs." (PDF) California HealthCare Foundation, July 2003.  
  
  
• Karen Pollitz and Richard Sorian, “Is the Individual Market Ready for Prime Time?” (HTML) Health Affairs Web Exclusive, October 23, 2002.
• Karen Pollitz, Richard Sorian, and Kathy Thomas, “How Accessible is Individual Health Insurance for People in Less-Than-Perfect Health?” Report for the Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, CA, June 2001.
  
  
• Karen Pollitz and Deborah Chollet, “Assessing Individual Health Insurance Markets in the Post-HIPAA Era.” Report presented to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. , May 2001.
  
  
• Karen Pollitz, Nicole Tapay, Elizabeth Hadley, Jalena Specht, "'New Federalism' in Health Insurance Regulation." (PDF and HTML) Health Affairs, July/August 2000.
  
  
• Ellen O'Brien and Judith Feder, "Employment-Based Health Insurance Coverage and its Decline: the Growing Plight of Low-Wage Workers," (PDF) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 1999.
  
  
• Richard Curtis, Stephanie Lewis, Kevin Haugh and Rafe Forland, "Health Insurance Reform in the Small Group Market." Health Affairs, May/June 1999.
  

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Health and Aging

• Robert B. Friedland and Laura Summer, Demography Is Not Destiny, Revisited, March 2003. (The Commonwealth Fund)
  
  
• Laura Summer, Robert Friedland, Katherine Mack, and Susan Mathieu, Measuring the Years: State Aging Trends & Indicators, December 2004. (National Governors Association)
  
  
• Laura Summer and Katherine Mack, State Strategies to Promote Independence Among Older Residents, Issue Brief, by July 2004. (National Governors Association)
  
  

Other

• Crowley, J.S. “Helping People Living with HIV/AIDS Resolve Health Care Problems: Recommendations for Ryan White CARE Act Program Administrators and Grantees”, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy for the HIV/AIDS Bureau, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. August 2001.
  
  
• James O'Hara. "West Nile virus: success of public health response underlines failure of the system." Journal of Urban Health, Volume 78, Issue 2, pp. 392-395, June 2001.
  
  
• Cheng J.D., Hitt J., Koczwara B., Schulman K.A., Burnett C., Darrell Gaskin, Rowland J., and Meropol N.J., Impact of Quality of Life on Patient Expectations Regarding Phase I Clinical Trials" The Journal of Clinical Oncology 2000;18:421-428.
  
  
• Jeffrey Crowley and Shriver, M.D. "Understanding the Health Care Needs of People Living with HIV—Recommendations for Strengthening the Programs that Serve Them", National Association of People With AIDS. March 1997.
  
  
• Darrell Gaskin, Kong J., Meropol N., Yabroff R., Weaver C., and Schulman K., "Treatment Choices of Patients With Life-Threatening Conditions: Health Stock Risk Adjustment Model of Decision Making", Medical Decision Making 1998;18:84-94.
  
  
• Griffiths R. I., Powe N. R., Darrell Gaskin , Anderson G. F., de Lissovoy G. V., and Whelton P. K., "The Production of Dialysis by For-Profit versus Not-For-Profit Independent Renal Dialysis Facilities", Health Services Research 1994;29(4):473-487.
  
  
  

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