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Health Care Reform
Scholarly Publications
ACA Marketplace Premiums and Competition Among Hospitals and Physician Practices
July 2018
In this study published in the American Journal of Managed Care, the authors found that premiums for ACA Marketplace plans were higher in rating areas in which physician, hospital, and insurance...
Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland
June 2018
We study the effect of diversity in the physician workforce on the demand for preventive care among African-American men.
Association of a Bundled-Payment Program With Cost and Outcomes in Full-Cycle Breast Cancer Care
October 2016
Importance:Value-driven payment system reform is a potential tool for aligning economic incentives with the improvement of quality and efficiency of health care and containment of cost.
Other Publications
Beyond the Public Plan: Pathway to Control Costs & Transform the Delivery System
July 2009
The current focus of the health reform debate is rightfully beginning to shift to the need to transform the delivery system to contain the long run growth in costs.
News
How growing time constraints impact primary care physicians and patients
September 2018
Some 450 million patient visits to primary care clinics occur in the United States each year. And as the shortage of doctors grows larger each year, primary care teams face increasing pressure both...
Are the opioid companies responsible for the epidemic?
August 2018
In this Q&A, Stanford Law Professors Michelle Mello, an expert in health law and core faculty member at Stanford Health Policy, and Nora Freeman Engstrom, an expert in tort law and complex...
Hospitals should consider underused resource to cut costs and promote value-based care
July 2018
There is a wealth of data that could help hospitals cut costs while still providing high-quality service for patients, if physicians were willing to join forces with administrators to truly...
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