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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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The Role Of The Individual Health Insurance Market And Prospects For Change (with M. Susan Marquis and Jill M. Yegian), Health Affairs (2004)

The individual market is the only source of health insurance for the more than 20...

 

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Subsidies and the Demand for Individual Health Insurance in California (with M. Susan Marquis, José J. Escarce, Kanika Kapur, and Jill M. Yegian), Health Services Research (2004)

Objective. To estimate the effect of changes in premiums for individual insurance on decisions to...

 

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Too much ado about two-part models and transformation? Comparing methods of modeling Medicare expenditures (with Alan M. Zaslavsky), Journal of Health Economics (2004)

Many methods for modeling skewed health care cost and use data have been suggested in...

 

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The Costs of Decedents in the Medicare Program: Implications for Payments to Medicare+Choice Plans (with Alan M. Garber, Mark McClellan, and Joseph P. Newhouse), Health Services Research (2004)

Objective. To discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid...

 

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What Is Known About the Economics of End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries? (with Haiden Huskamp), The Gerontologist (2002)

Purpose: This article reviews the state of science on the economics of end-of-life care for...

 

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Providing Care At The End Of Life: Do Medicare Rules Impede Good Care? (with Haiden A. Huskamp, Virginia Wang, and Joseph P. Newhouse), Health Affairs (2001)

Medicare spends more than a quarter of its annual budget on care for those in...

 

Unpublished Papers

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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...