Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)

Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization

Highlights

January 2008 HCFO News and Progress

Reducing the Administrative Burden of Health Care Quality Reporting
(December 2008)

Should Healthy Medicare Beneficiaries Postpone Enrollment in Part D?
(November 2008)

Medicare Spending on HMOs and Stand-Alone Drug Plans: What Is It Worth to Beneficiaries?
(November 2008)

Informing the Debate: Are Single Specialty Hospitals More Cost Efficient than Full-Service Hospitals?
(October 2008)

The Medicaid Undercount: Real or Perceived Bias in Estimates of Coverage in General Population Surveys?
(September 2008)

Improving Access to Improve Quality: Evaluation of an Organizational Innovation (August 2008)

RWJF Releases Report on HCFO

Surviving the Perfect Storm: Impacts of Benefit Reductions and Increased Cost Sharing in a Medicaid Program
(July 2008)

The Individual Insurance Market:
A Building Block for Health Care Reform?
Report and Companion Policy Brief (May 2008)

Announcement! 2008 HCFO Call For Proposals

Public Health Systems Research
Through HCFO, RWJF is investing in research to examine how the organization, financing and impact of health systems influence population health. This critical research seeks to build a body of evidence for improving the public health infrastructure in the U.S.