José J. Escarce — Publications
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Health System Expansion and Changes in Medicare Beneficiary Utilization of Safety Net Providers
2025
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The Segregation of Physician Networks Providing Care to Black and White Patients with Heart Disease: Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Evaluation
2024
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Changes Over Time in POLST Use and Content by Race and Ethnicity Among California Nursing Home Residents
2023
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Relationship of POLST to Hospitalization and ICU Care Among Nursing Home Residents in California
2023
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Within‐Physician Differences in Patient Sharing Between Primary Care Physicians and Cardiologists Who Treat White and Black Patients With Heart Disease
2023
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Care Preferences in Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in California Nursing Homes
2022
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The Perils Of PECOS: Using Medicare Administrative Data To Answer Important Policy Questions About Health Care Markets
2021
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POLST Completion and Continuity in California Nursing Homes
2021
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Health System Affiliation of Physician Organizations and Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries Who Have High Needs
2020
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care for Health System-Affiliated Physician Organizations and Non-Affiliated Physician Organizations
2020
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Racial Residential Segregation, Socioeconomic Disparities, and the White-Black Survival Gap
2018
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The Hispanic Paradox: Race/Ethnicity and Nativity, Immigrant Enclave Residence and Cognitive Impairment Among Older US Adults
2017
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Primary Care-Mental Health Integration in the VA: Shifting Mental Health Services for Common Mental Illnesses to Primary Care
2017
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What Role Does Efficiency Play in Understanding the Relationship Between Cost and Quality in Physician Organizations?
2017
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Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial
2016
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Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated with a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults?
2015
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Implementing Computerized Provider Order Entry in Acute Care Hospitals in the United States Could Generate Substantial Savings to Society: Methodological Appendix
2015
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Constructing a Time-Invariant Measure of the Socio-Economic Status of U.S. Census Tracts
2014
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Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
2014
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Are Our Actions Aligned with Our Evidence? The Skinny on Changing the Landscape of Obesity
2013
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The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
2013
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The Effects of Quality of Care on Cost: A Conceptual Framework
2013
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Food Policy Research: We Need Better Measurement, Better Study Designs, and Reasonable and Measured Actions Based on the Available Evidence
2013
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Health Status and Behavioral Risk Factors in Older Adult Mexicans and Mexican Immigrants to the United States
2013
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Medicare Payment Reform and Provider Entry and Exit in the Post-Acute Care Market
2013
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The Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Coronary Heart Disease in Women
2013
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Cost Implications of ACGME's 2011 Changes to Resident Duty Hours and the Training Environment
2012
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Medicare Postacute Care Payment Reforms Have Potential To Improve Efficiency Of Care, But May Need Changes To Cut Costs
2012
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Take-up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
2012
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The Women's Health Initiative: The Food Environment, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Blood Pressure
2012
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Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data by Health Plans Has Grown Substantially, but Opportunities Remain to Expand Efforts
2011
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Medicare's Bundled Payment Pilot for Acute and Postacute Care: Analysis and Recommendations on Where to Begin
2011
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Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research: Is There No Place Like Home?
2011
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Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research
2011
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Racial/ethnic Differences in US Health Behaviors: A Decomposition Analysis
2011
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Relative Affordability of Health Insurance Premiums Under CHIP Expansion Programs and the ACA
2011
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Spillover Effects of Community Uninsurance on Working-Age Adults and Seniors: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
2011
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Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Inpatient Rehabilitation Care Under Prospective Payment
2010
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Estimating and Mapping Health Literacy in the State of Missouri
2010
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Medicare Spending and Outcomes After Postacute Care for Stroke and Hip Fracture
2010
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Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Biological 'Wear and Tear' in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults
2010
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Response to McWilliams Commentary: "Assessing the Health Effects of Medicare Coverage for Previously Uninsured Adults: a Matter of Life and Death?"
2010
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Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research
2010
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Community Demographics and Access to Health Care Among U.S. Hispanics
2009
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Cost Implications of Reduced Work Hours and Workloads for Resident Physicians
2009
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Cost Sharing and the Initiation of Drug Therapy for the Chronically Ill
2009
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Developing Predictive Models of Health Literacy
2009
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Do Patients Bypass Rural Hospitals? Determinants of Inpatient Hospital Choice in Rural California
2009
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Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Post-Acute Care
2009
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Employer-sponsored Insurance, Health Care Cost Growth, and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries
2009
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Health Care Cost Growth and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries
2009
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The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured
2009
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The Health Value and Cost of Care for Major Depression
2009
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Immigrants and Health Care Access, Quality, and Cost
2009
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Neighborhoods and Cumulative Biological Risk Profiles by Race/Ethnicity in a National Sample of U.S. Adults: NHANES III
2009
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Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: A Powerful Policy Lever to Use with Care
2009
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Rural Hospitals Struggle to Attract Patients and Remain Viable
2009
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When Drug Cost-Sharing Increases, Patients Newly Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness Delay Starting Medication
2009
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Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Care Prospective Payment System
2008
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Does Place Explain Racial Health Disparities? Quantifying the Contribution of Residential Context to the Black/white Health Gap in the United States
2008
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Do Neighborhood Economic Conditions Influence the Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables?
2008
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Immigrants and Health Care: A Complex Picture
2008
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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Whites, Blacks, and Mexican Americans in the United States
2008
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Obtaining Utility Estimates of the Health Value of Commonly Prescribed Treatments for Asthma and Depression
2008
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Did the Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Result in Changes in Relative Patient Severity and Relative Resource Use?
2007
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Does Quality of Care for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Differ by Gender for Enrollees in Managed Care Plans?
2007
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Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma
2007
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Health Care Markets, the Safety Net, and Utilization of Care Among the Uninsured
2007
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Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California
2007
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Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability
2007
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Individual's Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length
2007
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Language Access Services for Latinos with Limited English Proficiency: Lessons Learned from Hablamos Juntos
2007
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Neighborhood Context and Ethnicity Differences in Body Mass Index: A Multilevel Analysis Using the NHANES III Survey (1988-1994)
2007
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The Role of Product Design in Consumers' Choices in the Individual Insurance Market
2007
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Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans
2007
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Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Discussion of Cancer Screening: "Between-" versus "Within-" Physician Differences
2007
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Changes in Patient Severity Following Implementation of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System
2006
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Consumer Decision Making in the Individual Health Insurance Market
2006
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Consumer Decisionmaking in the Insurance Market
2006
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Dimensions of the Local Health Care Environment and Use of Care by Uninsured Children in Rural and Urban Areas
2006
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Effects of Family Structure on Children's Use of Ambulatory Visits and Prescription Medications
2006
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Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence from Three States
2006
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Hospital Competition, Managed Care and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence from Three States
2006
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Impact of Instructional Practices on Student Satisfaction with Attendings' Teaching in the Inpatient Component of Internal Medicine Clerkships
2006
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Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements
2005
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Blood Lead Levels Among Mexican-American Children and Adolescents in the United States
2005
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Effects of Payment Changes on Trends in Access to Post-Acute Care
2005
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Health Care Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured
2005
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How Cost Sharing Affects Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill
2005
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How Does Race Matter, Anyway?
2005
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How Much Is Postacute Care Use Affected by Its Availability?
2005
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Is the Individual Market More Than a Bridge Market? An Analysis of Disenrollment Decisions
2005
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The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet?
2005
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Predictors of Surgery Resident Satisfaction with Teaching by Attendings: A National Survey
2005
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Prospects for Change in the Individual Health Insurance Market
2005
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Residency Work-Hours Reform: A Cost Analysis Including Preventable Adverse Events
2005
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Use of Geocoding in Managed Care Settings to Identify Quality Disparities
2005
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Assessing the Influence of Incentives on Physician and Medical Groups: A Comment
2004
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Changes in Racial Differences in Use of Medical Procedures and Diagnostic Tests Among Elderly Persons: 1986-1997
2004
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Effect of Primary Care Visits on the Demand for Specialty Care in Health Maintenance Organizations
2004
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Health Care Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured
2004
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How Much is Post-Acute Care Use Affected by its Availability?
2004
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Impact of Managed Care on the Treatment, Costs, and Outcomes of Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
2004
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Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What Are the Causes?
2004
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The Managed Care Backlash: Did Consumers Vote with Their Feet?
2004
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Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill
2004
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Predictors for Medical Students Entering a General Surgery Residency: National Survey Results
2004
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Recent Trends and Geographic Variation in the Safety Net
2004
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Sociodemographic Differences in Use of Preventive Services by Women Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans
2004
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Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population
2004
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Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care
2004
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Specificity and Sensitivity of Claims-Based Algorithms for Identifying Members of Medicare+choice Health Plans That Have Chronic Medical Conditions
2004
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Subsidies and the Demand for Individual Health Insurance in California
2004
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Updated Variable-Radius Measures of Hospital Competition
2004
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Updated Variable-Radius Measures of Hospital Competition: Data and Documentation
2004
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Use of Preventive Services by Men Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans
2004
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Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditure for Physicians' Services
2003
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Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services
2003
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Incremental Treatment Costs in National Cancer Institute-sponsored Clinical Trials
2003
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Managing Care: Utilization Review in Action at Two Capitated Medical Groups; Prospective Denials of Coverage on Grounds of Medical Necessity Are Only a Small Part of the Overall Picture
2003
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Methods for Using Medicare Data to Compare Procedure Rates Among Asians, Black, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites
2003
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Participation of Patients 65 Years of Age or Older in Cancer Clinical Trials
2003
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Patterns of Care for Open-Angle Glaucoma in Managed Care
2003
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Practice Characteristics and HMO Enrollee Satisfaction and Speciality Care: An Analysis of Patients with Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy
2003
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Public and Private Medical Care Expenditures Among Aged Medicare Beneficiaries
2003
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Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research
2003
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Sampling Patients Within Physician Practices and Health Plans: Multistage Cluster Samples in Health Services Research
2003
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Trends and Variability in Individual Insurance Products in California: Despite Changes in Insurance Products Available Between 1997 and 2002, the Actuarial Value of Coverage Has Remained Nearly Constant
2003
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Characteristics of Eye Care Practices with Managed Care Contracts
2002
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Compliance Among Pharmacies in California with a Prescription-Drug Discount Program for Medicare Beneficiaries
2002
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Cost Sharing Cuts Employers' Drug Spending—But Employees Don't Get the Savings
2002
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The Determinants of HMO's Contracting with Hospitals for Bypass Surgery
2002
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Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs
2002
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Hospital Care for the Uninsured in Miami-Dade County: Hospital Finance and Patient Travel Patterns
2002
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Improving Access to Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries: Can State Law Help?
2002
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Initial Practice Locations of International Medical Graduates
2002
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Personal Choices of Health Plans by Managed Care Experts
2002
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Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Behavioral Factors Affecting Hispanic Health Outcomes
2002
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Health Maintenance Organizations and the Changing Physician Workforce
2001
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Measuring the Incremental Cost of Clinical Cancer Research
2001
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Medical Care Expenditures Under Gatekeeper and Point-of-Service Arrangements
2001
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Using Hospital Tumor Registries to Identify Research Subjects
2001
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The Cost of Cancer Treatment Study's Design and Methods
2000
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The Effect of HMO Penetration on Physician Retirement
2000
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Expenditures for Physician Services Under Alternative Models of Managed Care
2000
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HMO Growth and the Geographical Redistribution of Generalist and Specialist Physicians, 1987-1997
2000
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HMO Penetration and the Geographic Mobility of Practicing Physicians
2000
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Race and Sex Differences in the Management of Coronary Artery Disease
2000
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Visits to Primary Care Physicians and to Specialists Under Gatekeeper and Point-of-Service Arrangements
2000
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Association of Dialyzer Reuse and Hospitalization Rates Among Hemodialysis Patients in the US
1999
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Association of Dialyzer Reuse with Hospitalization and Survival Rates Among U.S. Hemodialysis Patients: Do Comorbidities Matter?
1999
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Cost Functions for Dialysis Facilities and the Quality of Dialysis
1999
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The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization
1999
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Equity in Managed Care for Mental Disorders
1999
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Financial Incentives and Drug Spending in Managed Care: Incentives for Both Physicians and Patients Can Interact to Help Curb Spending in This Increasingly Costly Sector
1999
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Health Maintenance Organizations and Hospital Quality for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
1999
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Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain
1999
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Self-reported Physician Specialties and the Primary Care Content of Medical Practice: A Study of the AMA Physician Masterfile
1999
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Diagnostic Coding and Medical Rehabilitation Length of Stay: Their Relationship
1998
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Health Maintenance Organization Penetration and the Practice Location Choices of New Physicians
1998
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Indications for and Outcomes of Cholecystectomy: A Comparison of the Pre and Postlaparoscopic Eras
1998
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Physician Opportunity Costs in Physician Practice Cost Functions
1998
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Development of Function-Related Groups Version 2.0: A Classification System for Medical Rehabilitation
1997
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How Practicing Surgeons Trained for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
1997
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Quality Assessment in Contracting for Tertiary Care Services by HMOs: A Case Study of Three Markets
1997
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Segmentation of Hospital Markets: Where Do HMO Enrollees Get Care?
1997
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Effect of Dialyzer Reuse on Survival of Patients Treated with Hemodialysis
1996
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Externalities in Hospitals and Physician Adoption of a New Surgical Technology: An Exploratory Analysis
1996
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Survival of Medicare Patients After Enrollment in Hospice Programs
1996
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Using Physician Practice Cost Functions in Payment Policy: The Problem of Endogeneity Bias
1996
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Diffusion of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Among General Surgeons in the United States
1995
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Falling Cholecystectomy Thresholds Since the Introduction of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
1995
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A Case-Mix Classification System for Medical Rehabilitation
1994
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Hospital Adoption of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
1994
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Revised Estimates of Diagnostic Test Sensitivity and Specificity in Suspected Biliary Tract Disease
1994
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Using Medicare Claims for Outcomes Research
1994
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Effects of the Relative Fee Structure on the Use of Surgical Operations
1993
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
1993
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987
1993
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Racial Differences in the Elderly's Use of Medical Procedures and Diagnostic Tests
1993
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Would Eliminating Differences in Physician Practice Style Reduce Geographic Variations in Cataract Surgery Rates?
1993
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Assessing Physicians' Estimates of the Probability of Coronary Artery Disease: The Influence of Patient Characteristics
1992
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Explaining the Association Between Surgeon Supply and Utilization
1992
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Geographic Variation in Relative Fees Under Medicare
1991
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Impact of the Medicare Fee Schedule on an Academic Department of Medicine
1991
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Admission Source to the Medical Intensive Care Unit Predicts Hospital Death Independent of APACHE II Score
1990
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Hyporeninemic Hypoaldosteronism in a Patient with Cirrhosis and Ascites
1986
