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From the Editor

Greetings From East Timor: The Power Of The Web John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Law & Ethics

PROLOGUE: Consumers Versus Managed Care: The New Class Actions Clark C. Havighurst [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Fraud-And-Abuse Enforcement In Medicare: Finding Middle Ground Thomas H. Stanton [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Managed Care Can Be Ethical Lauren Randel, Steven D. Pearson, James E. Sabin, Tracey Hyams, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health

The Sunset Of Federal Mental Health Parity [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Full Parity: Steps Toward Treatment Equity For Mental And Addictive Disorders Kevin D. Hennessy and Howard H. Goldman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Toward Full Mental Health Parity And Beyond Daniel P. Gitterman, Roland Sturm, and Richard M. Scheffler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Parity Or Insurance Mandate? The Case For Mental Health Parity In Kansas Sandy Praeger [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The California Model

The California Model Of Physician Contracting [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician Organization In California: Crisis And Opportunity James C. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Canaries In A Coal Mine: California Physician Groups And Competition Lawrence Casalino [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Scale And Structure Of Capitated Physician Organizations In California Meredith B. Rosenthal, Richard G. Frank, Joan L. Buchanan, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare

Medicare+Choice: An Interim Report Card Marsha Gold [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Market Failure? Individual Insurance Markets For Older Americans Elisabeth Simantov, Cathy Schoen, and Stephanie Bruegman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Hospital Mergers And Savings For Consumers: Exploring New Evidence Heather Radach Spang, Gloria J. Bazzoli, and Richard J. Arnould [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: How Did Safety-Net Hospitals Cope In The 1990s? Stephen Zuckerman, Gloria Bazzoli, Amy Davidoff, and Anthony LoSasso [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Effect Of Reforms On Spending For Veterans’ Substance Abuse Treatment, 1993–1999 Shuo Chen, Todd H. Wagner, and Paul G. Barnett [Extract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Politics And The Public Hospital In Our Capital Paul Offner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Making A Public Hospital Work Patricia A. Gabow [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medicare Beneficiaries’ Costs Of Care In The Last Year Of Life Christopher Hogan, June Lunney, Jon Gabel, and Joanne Lynn [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Embraceable You: How Employers Influence Health Plan Enrollment Jon R. Gabel, Jeremy D. Pickreign, Heidi H. Whitmore, and Cathy Schoen [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Are Fortune 100 Companies Responsive To Chronically Ill Workers? Fernando Montenegro-Torres, Timothy Engelhardt, Mae Thamer, and Gerard Anderson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prevalence Of Selected Employer Health Insurance Purchasing Strategies In 1997 M. Susan Marquis and Stephen H. Long [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Use Of Physician Assistants And Nurse Practitioners In Primary Care, 1995–1999 Roderick S. Hooker and Linda F. McCaig [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Reinventing A Multicounty Behavioral Health Care System: The Local Philanthropy As Change Agent Edward F. Meehan, Michael W. Kaufmann, Paul J. Carling, and Henry P. Palmer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants & Grant Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Degrees Of Uncertainty Ronald Bayer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Authors Respond To WHO Critics Robert J. Blendon, Minah Kim, and John M. Benson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

More Debate On Paying For GME Floyd D. Loop, Andrew J. Fishleder, Alan R. Nelson, Mary K. Wakefield, Spencer Johnson, Donald T. Lewers, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Gail R. Wilensky [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Ways To Address Medical Errors Jack Zusman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Admitting Mistakes Is Not Enough Philip M. Stoffan and Neil S. Calman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Use Of Consumer Surveys L. Gregory Pawlson, Bruce E. Landon, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and Paul D. Cleary [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Doctors’ Views Of Medicare Payment Levels Jesse S. Hixson, Sara L. Thran, Julie A. Schoenman, C. Michael Cheng, and Kevin J. Hayes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Errata [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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