Objective: To examine the impact of incentive formularies on prescription drug utilization and spending after introduction of new pharmacy benefit designs for proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), statins, a
Little is known about the relationship between variation in drug and non-drug medical treatment and how areas may substitute one type of care for the other.
Although US health care expenditures reached 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009, quality measurement in this important service sector remains limited.
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in government programs of the Patient
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country.
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private budgets.
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most documented U.S.
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012.
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most documented U.S.
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey.
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