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From The Editor

Hospitals Flex Their Market Muscle Amid Competitive Threats John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Open Letter

Paying For Performance: Medicare Should Lead Donald M. Berwick, Nancy-Ann DeParle, David M. Eddy, Paul M. Ellwood, Alain C. Enthoven, George C. Halvorson, Kenneth W. Kizer, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Robert D. Reischauer, William L. Roper, John W. Rowe, Leonard D. Schaeffer, John E. Wennberg, and Gail R. Wilensky [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Supply & Demand

PROLOGUE: Supply And Demand: The Big Picture [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Outlook For Hospital Spending David Shactman, Stuart H. Altman, Efrat Eilat, Kenneth E. Thorpe, and Michael Doonan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does The Aging Of The Population Really Drive The Demand For Health Care? Uwe E. Reinhardt [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does U.S. Hospital Capacity Need To Be Expanded? Gloria J. Bazzoli, Linda R. Brewster, Gigi Liu, and Sylvia Kuo [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Outpatient Surgery

PROLOGUE: The Outpatient Surgery Controversy [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Focused Factories? Physician-Owned Specialty Facilities Lawrence P. Casalino, Kelly J. Devers, and Linda R. Brewster [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Comparing The Mix Of Patients In Various Outpatient Surgery Settings Ariel Winter [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Competition & Consolidation

PROLOGUE: Hospital Competition And Consolidation [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trends In Hospital Consolidation: The Formation Of Local Systems Alison Evans Cuellar and Paul J. Gertler [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Critical Issues In Hospital Antitrust Law Peter J. Hammer and William M. Sage [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: Protecting Competition And Consumers: A Conversation With Timothy J. Muris William M. Sage [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: The Medicare World From Both Sides: A Conversation With Tom Scully Uwe E. Reinhardt [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Teaching Hospitals

PROLOGUE: The Mission Costs Of Teaching Hospitals [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Estimating The Mission-Related Costs Of Teaching Hospitals Lane Koenig, Allen Dobson, Silver Ho, Jonathan M. Siegel, David Blumenthal, and Joel S. Weissman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Financing Teaching Hospital Missions: A Context Stuart Guterman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Accounting For Teaching Hospitals’ Higher Costs And What To Do About Them Joseph P. Newhouse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What Will Become Of The Medical Mecca? Health Care Spending In Massachusetts Robert E. Mechanic [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Safety Net

PROLOGUE: The State Of The Hospital Safety Net [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who Walks Through The Door? The Effect Of The Uninsured On Hospital Use Catherine G. McLaughlin and Karoline Mortensen [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Limits To The Safety Net: Teaching Hospital Faculty Report On Their Patients’ Access To Care Joel S. Weissman, Ernest Moy, Eric G. Campbell, Manjusha Gokhale, Recai Yucel, Nancyanne Causino, and David Blumenthal [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Challenges And Opportunities For Medicare’s Original Prospective Payment System Chantal Worzala, Julian Pettengill, and Jack Ashby [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Obtaining Greater Value From Health Care: The Roles Of The U.S. Government Stephen C. Schoenbaum, Anne-Marie J. Audet, and Karen Davis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: Is The Current Shortage Of Hospital Nurses Ending? Peter I. Buerhaus, Douglas O. Staiger, and David I. Auerbach [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Future Of The Nurse Shortage: Will Wage Increases Close The Gap? Joanne Spetz and Ruth Given [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The McLawsuit: The Fast-Food Industry And Legal Accountability For Obesity Michelle M. Mello, Eric B. Rimm, and David M. Studdert [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Care For The Uninsured In General Internists’ Private Offices Gerry Fairbrother, Michael K. Gusmano, Heidi L. Park, and Roberta Scheinmann [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Hospitals’ Behavior In A Tort Crisis: Observations From Pennsylvania Michelle M. Mello, Carly N. Kelly, David M. Studdert, Troyen A. Brennan, and William M. Sage [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

The Yellow Baby Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

At The End Of A Day Alok Khorana [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Datawatch

Battery-Powered Health Insurance? Stability In Coverage Of The Uninsured Pamela Farley Short and Deborah R. Graefe [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spending For Specialized Mental Health Treatment In The VA: 1995–2001 Shuo Chen, Mark W. Smith, Todd H. Wagner, and Paul G. Barnett [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grantwatch

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

Update

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

Book Reviews

Market Competition—Is That All There Is? Robert A. Berenson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Bridging Parallel Universes Robert F. Leibenluft [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is Ethical Corporate Medical Practice An Oxymoron? Leonard S. Rubenstein [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Mandated Psychiatric Treatment E. Fuller Torrey [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Round Pegs, Square Holes Michael Allen, John Monahan, Richard J. Bonnie, and Marvin Swartz [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health And Managed Care Dolores L. Mitchell and Paul S. Appelbaum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physicians Facing Coverage Restrictions Karen Ignagni and Matthew K. Wynia [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pricing Drugs John R. Graham and Steven G. Morgan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Index

2003 Index [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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