Articles
Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (with Neeraj Sood and José J. Escarce), Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics (2008)
We use the implementation of a new prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation facilities...
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence About Effects On Cost And Quality (with Cheryl Damberg, Amelia Haviland, Kanika Kapur, Nicole Lurie, Roland McDevitt, and M. Susan Marquis), Health Affairs (2006)
Demand for consumer-directed health care (CDHC) is growing among purchasers of care, and early evidence...
How Much Risk Pooling Is There in the Individual Insurance Market? (with M. Susan Marquis), Health Services Research (2006)
Objective. To examine how much pooling of risks occurs among potential purchasers in the individual...
Consumer Decision Making In The Individual Health Insurance Market (with M. Susan Marquis, José J. Escarce, Kanika Kapur, Thomas A. Louis, and Jill M. Yegian), Health Affairs (2006)
This paper summarizes the results from a study of consumer decision making in California’s individual...
How Much Is Postacute Care Use Affected by Its Availability? (with Anita Datar Garten, Susan Paddock, Debra Saliba, Mark Totten, and José J. Escarce), Health Services Research (2005)
Objective. To assess the relative impact of clinical factors versus nonclinical factors—such as postacute care...
Unpublished Papers
Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements (with Partha Deb, José Escarce, Carrie Hoverman, Susan Paddock, and Neeraj Sood), RAND Health working paper series (2005)
The primary objective of this study is to conduct a set of analyses comparing costs...