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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
Examining the Value of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
March 2020
Most Americans don’t realize there are silent brokers helping to fix the price of their prescription drugs — or that it’s a $100 billion annual business accounting for half of Big Pharma sales.
Study Finds Transitional Care Services Cost-Effective After Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Elderly
January 2020
Elderly patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure have a poor prognosis and high risk of death and hospital readmission.
CDC Supports Salomon's Prevention Policy Modeling Lab
November 2019
Stanford Health Policy researchers, led by Josh Salomon, have been awarded a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct health and economic modeling to...
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