Publications and Reports
"States Respond to Fiscal Pressure: A 50-State Update of State Medicaid Spending Growth and Cost Containment Actions - Report"
This report, based on a brief survey update of state officials conducted in December identifies changes related to Medicaid spending growth and cost containment that have taken place since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2004.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2004
Kaiser Family Foundation: Employer Health Benefits 2003 Annual Survey
The survey tracks trends in employer health insurance coverage, the cost of that coverage, and other topical health insurance issues.
An article based on this year's survey findings also appears in the September/October 2003 issue of Health Affairs.
This page includes a Summary of Findings, the report, a chartpack and supplemental charts.
Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2003
"The National Healthcare Quality Report"
The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of the quality of health care. The report presents data on the quality of services for seven clinical conditions, including cancer, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and respiratory disease.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), December 2003
"Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice"
Documents the actual and potential contributions of prepaid group practice (PGP) to American health care. Each chapter explores a different aspect of the U.S. health care markets and is written by one or more distinguished scholars or health care leaders.
"President Proposes to Make Tax Benefits of Health Savings Accounts More Lucrative for Higher-Income Individuals"
This paper concludes that the "proposed deduction would do little to reduce the ranks of the uninsured. Its primary effect would be to enlarge the already-generous tax benefits that HSAs offer to higher-income individuals who purchase insurance in the individual market."
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 9, 2004
"Population-Based Disease Management Under Fee-For-Service Medicare"
This paper provides a brief overview of how PDM programs are evolving in the private sector and describes how they differ from other approaches already being tested in Medicare disease management demonstrations.
Health Affairs, July 2003
"Confronting The Barriers To Chronic Care Management In Medicare"
This paper examines the ability of the current Medicare program—both traditional fee-for-service and risk-based contracting—to address the needs of beneficiaries with chronic conditions, who represent almost 80 percent of program enrollment.
Health Affairs, January 2003
"Managed Care Redux: Health Plans Shift Responsibilities to Consumers"
Confronted with conflicting pressures to stem double-digit premium increases and provide unfettered access to care, health plans are developing products that shift more financial and care management responsibilities to consumers, according to findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) 2002-03 site visits to 12 nationally representative communities.
Center for Studying Health System Change, March 2004
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