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Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems (with Neeraj Sood, Jose J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski, and Joseph P. Newhouse), NBER Working Paper #17870 (2012)
Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting...
Diabetes Management For Low-Income Patients in Los Angeles: Two Strategies Improved Disease Control in the Short Term (with Daniella Meeker, Anne Peters, Jeffrey J. Guterman, Guillermo Diaz Jr., and Dana P. Goldman), Health Affairs (2012)
Health care providers serving vulnerable patients in Los Angeles have developed programs intended to increase...
Medicare’s Bundled Payment Pilot For Acute And Postacute Care: Analysis And Recommendations On Where To Begin (with Neeraj Sood, Jose J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski, and Joseph P. Newhouse), Health Affairs (2011)
In the National Pilot Program on Payment Bundling, a subset of Medicare providers will receive...
Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less (with Christopher R. Knittel), NBER Working Paper 17046 (2011)
We study the effects of generic entry on prices and utilization using both event study...
The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (with Neeraj Sood, David C. Grabowski, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Jose J. Escarce), NBER Working Paper No. 17125 (2011)
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS),...