Supplemental Data is available for this issue:

[Original Table of Contents for this issue]

Ownership Statement

Statement Of Ownership, Management, And Circulation Judie Tucker [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From the Editor

The Challenges Facing Private Health Insurance John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consolidation

Consolidation And The Transformation Of Competition In Health Insurance James C. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Monopoly, Monopsony, And Market Definition: An Antitrust Perspective On Market Concentration Among Health Insurers David A. Hyman and William E. Kovacic [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Is There Evidence That Recent Consolidation In The Health Insurance Industry Has Adversely Affected Premiums? William G. Kopit [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Hot Potato Endgame Arnold Milstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician Practice

PROLOGUE: Physician Practice: Next Steps [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Professionalism Reconsidered: Physician Payment In A Small-Practice Environment Robert Cunningham [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Professionalism Reconsidered: Physician Payment From A Health Plan Perspective Allan Korn [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physician Organization And Care Management In California: From Cottage To Kaiser Diane R. Rittenhouse, Kevin Grumbach, Edward H. O’Neil, Catherine Dower, and Andrew Bindman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Costs

Can Disease Management Reduce Health Care Costs By Improving Quality? Bruce Fireman, Joan Bartlett, and Joe Selby [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Does Population Management Of Chronic Disease Lead To Lower Costs Of Care? Francis J. Crosson and Philip Madvig [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Future Of Insurance

The Role Of The Individual Health Insurance Market And Prospects For Change Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, M. Susan Marquis, and Jill M. Yegian [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

As The Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Turns: What Next? Joy M. Grossman and Paul B. Ginsburg [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Underwriting Cycle: The Rule Of Six Alice Rosenblatt [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer-Directed Health Plans And The RAND Health Insurance Experiment Joseph P. Newhouse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: Business Opportunities In Transforming Health Care: A Conversation With William W. McGuire James C. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Barriers To Constraining Health Care Cost Growth Michael E. Chernew, Peter D. Jacobson, Timothy P. Hofer, Keith D. Aaronson, and A. Mark Fendrick [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Doughnut-Hole Economics Meredith B. Rosenthal [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Stanford University’s Experience With Managed Competition Alain C. Enthoven and Brian Talbott [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Health Plans’ Strategies To Control Prescription Drug Spending Stanley S. Wallack, Dana Beth Weinberg, and Cindy Parks Thomas [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Technology And The Boundaries Of The Hospital: Three Emerging Technologies Jeff Goldsmith [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Decline In Receipt Of Substance Abuse Treatment By The Privately Insured, 1992–2001 Tami L. Mark and Rosanna M. Coffey [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Errata] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Independent Medical Review Of Health Plan Coverage Denials: Early Trends Kenneth H. Chuang, Wade M. Aubry, and R. Adams Dudley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Covering Kids: Variation In Health Insurance Coverage Trends By State, 1996–2002 Lynn A. Blewett, Michael Davern, and Holly Rodin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Public Expectations Of Nonprofit And For-Profit Ownership In American Medicine: Clarifications And Implications Mark Schlesinger, Shannon Mitchell, and Bradford H. Gray [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In Contract Management: The Hidden Evolution In Hospital Organization Kathleen Carey and Avi Dor [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Acquainted With The Night Paul Raeburn [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Hospital Death Anne Hunsaker Hawkins [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Patterns Of Individual Health Insurance Coverage, 1996–2000 Erika C. Ziller, Andrew F. Coburn, Timothy D. McBride, and Courtney Andrews [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Perceptions Of Private Health Care In Socialist China Meng-Kin Lim, Hui Yang, Tuohong Zhang, Wen Feng, and Zijun Zhou [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Oversight In Medicaid Primary Care Case Management Programs Eric C. Schneider, Bruce E. Landon, Carol Tobias, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

ESSAY: Scarce Physicians Encounter Scarce Foundations: A Call For Action Richard A. Cooper [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

SPECIAL REPORT: Establishing, Funding, And Sustaining A University Outreach Program In Oral Health James A. Lalumandier and Kay F. Molkentin [Abstract] [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

Driver’s Ed For Backseat Drivers Tom Miller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Everyone’s Problem Gerald Markowitz [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

AIDS: Who Will Pay? And For What? Jeff Gow [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Health Spending Differentials Ted Marmor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Social Insurance For Children? Robert H. Binstock [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spending Differentials: The Authors Respond Daniel P. Gitterman for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Generational Spending: The Authors Respond Susmita Pati for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

CareFirst Conversion Bruce McPherson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

For-Profit Accountability Lawrence H. Mirel [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disclosure Of Errors Jawahar Kalra, K. Lorne Massey, and Amith Mulla [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurses’ Working Hours Lolita B. Compas [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurses’ Working Hours: The Authors Respond Ann E. Rogers for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Views Of Public Health Jason W. Manne [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Health: The Authors Respond Lawrence O. Gostin for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reducing Drug Prices Richard A. Epstein [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug Prices: The Authors Respond Peter Stein and Ernst Valery [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Measuring Diabetes Management Thomas Wilson and Ariel Linden [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Lowering Diabetes Costs Joe V. Selby and K.M. Venkat Narayan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Diabetes Management: The Authors Respond Victor G. Villagra and Tamim Ahmed [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Long-Term Care Choices Janice C. Probst [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Don’t Blame The Physicians Evan Fieldston [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Physicians: The Authors Respond Hoangmai H. Pham for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Spending By Age Sean Keehan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Spending: The Authors Respond Ellen Meara for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

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

Index

2004 Index [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Guidelines for Authors