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Publisher's Letter

A Publisher's Passing William B. Walsh, Jr. [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From The Editor

The Pursuit Of Commercialism John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Public policy issues in nonprofit conversions: an overview G Claxton, J Feder, D Shactman, and S Altman [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Conversion of HMOs and hospitals: what's at stake? B H Gray [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

State experience in regulating a changing health care system D Shriber [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

State policy issues in nonprofit conversions P A Butler [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Massachusetts Experience Richard C. Allen [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: A Road Map From Nebraska Gerald E. Matzke [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The View From Ohio Craig R. Mayton [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The California Model James R. Schwartz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: A 'Major Revolution' In Texas John W. Vinson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Sale Of Good Samaritan: A View From The Trenches Molly Joel Coye [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Investing In The Twenty-First Century Hospital David L. Manning [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Conversion Game: High Stakes, Few Rules LInda B. Miller [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Why We Want To Remain A Nonprofit Organization David Lawrence [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: A For-Profit Health Plan's Experience And Strategy Michael E. Herbert [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Preservation Of Charitable Health Care Assets Judith Bell, Harry Snyder, Christine Tien, and Julie Silas [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Strategic and economic factors in the hospital conversion process S R Hollis [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Role Of Investment Bankers In Nonprofit Conversions Gerard F. Anderson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Local Reactions To Nonprofit Conversions [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Access to care in Medicare HMOs, 1996 L Nelson, R Brown, M Gold, A Ciemnecki, and E Docteur [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The slowdown in Medicaid spending growth: will it continue? J Holahan and D Liska [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Changes in Medicaid managed care enrollment among children S H Scholle, K J Kelleher, G Childs, J Mendeloff, and W P Gardner [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Beyond competition R A Berenson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Privatizing Medicare: a battle of values H P Cain, II [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Hospital conversion trends J Needleman, D J Chollet, and J Lamphere [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managed care and medical technology: implications for cost growth M Chernew, A M Fendrick, and R A Hirth [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health insurance and child support D R Meyer [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managed competition in California's small-group insurance market T C Buchmueller [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Some guidelines for managing charitable assets from conversions N M Kane [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Conversion Foundations: A Listing [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

UpDate [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications & Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

There's No Success Like Failure: The Persistence Of Punitive Prohibition Craig Reinarman [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Medicare Home Health Payment Reform Penny Hollander Feldman and Christopher M. Murtaugh [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What Is Happening To The Blues? Stanley Jones and Lynn Etheredge [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Interim Solution For Medicare Home Health Payment Jason Marks [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Authors Respond Christine E. Bishop, Randall S. Brown, Barbara Phillips, Grant Ritter, and Kathleen Carley Skwara [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acknowledgments

Acknowlegments [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Guidelines for Authors