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Publisher's Letter

Readers Respond William B. Walsh M.D. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From The Editor

Role Of The Consumer John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

A guide to facilitating consumer choice E W Hoy, E K Wicks, and R A Forland [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer's information needs: results of a national survey S L Isaacs [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What information do consumers want and need? S Edgman-Levitan and P D Cleary [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Market Comes To Medicare: Adding Choice And Protections Marion Ein Lewin and Stanley B. Jones [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managed care and physician/hospital integration M A Morrisey, J Alexander, L R Burns, and V Johnson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: On The Appropriateness Of Small-Area Analysis For Cost Containment John E. Wennberg [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Length-of-stay after delivery: managed care versus fee-for-service J A Gazmararian and J P Koplan [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access to care in HMOs and traditional insurance plans T Mark and C Mueller [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Downsizing the hospital nursing workforce L H Aiken, J Sochalski, and G F Anderson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What is driving health system change? L Etheredge, S B Jones, and L Lewin [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Proving the policy wonks wrong H P Cain, II [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Predicting future health system change J M Davis [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A different health care world than expected J Goldsmith [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Whither quality? R W Hungate [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health system change: skirmish or revolution? U E Reinhardt [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Chaotic, shifting relationships of purchasers, plans, and providers G L Warden [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Rationalizing the fraud and abuse statute J F Blumstein [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Fraud And Abuse Statute: Rationalizing Or Rationalization? Timothy Stoltzfus Jost and Sharon Davies [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Do nonprofit hospitals pay their way? M A Morrisey, G J Wedig, and M Hassan [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The home health visit: an appropriate unit for Medicare payment? C E Bishop, R S Brown, B Phillips, G Ritter, and K C Skwara [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

High hospital admission rates and inappropriate care J Restuccia, M Shwartz, A Ash, and S Payne [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The view from managed care pharmacy B R Luce, C A Lyles, and A M Rentz [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost differences among women's primary care physicians B A Bartman, C M Clancy, E Moy, and P Langenberg [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Health plan conversions: the view from Blue Cross of California L D Schaeffer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Health And Social Context David A. Rochefort [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Lessons From Breast Implant Litigation William M. Sage [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

The Limits Of The Hospital Jeff Goldsmith [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A New Payment Method For Inpatient Care Ann L. Robinow [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is Cost The Primary Cause Of Declining Hospital Days? A. Dale Tussing [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Taking Issue With A 'Heretical Hypothesis' Robert T. Deane and Paul R. Willging [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Payment Versus Pricing: Which Is The Central Issue? David M. Witter, Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Gutting the Hospital: The Author Responds Uwe E. Reinhardt [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Lessons In Medicaid Managed Care Marsha Gold and Michael Sparer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Impact Of Market Change On The Physician Workforce Anne L. Schwartz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Market Forces And Physicians: The Author Responds Spencer Foreman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Market Competition And Growth Of Hospital Staff John W. Chambers [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Unexpected Conclusion: The Authors Respond Gerard F. Anderson and Linda T. Kohn [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Index

1996 Index [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Guidelines for Authors