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From the Editor

Rolling The Rock Up The Mountain Susan Dentzer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Research UpDate

RESEARCH UPDATE: Increased Spending On Health Care: Long-Term Implications For The Nation Michael E. Chernew, Richard A. Hirth, and David M. Cutler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Reform UpDate

HEALTH REFORM UPDATE: Bending The Curve: The Twists And Turns Aliza Marcus [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Overview

PROLOGUE: Health Spending: An Overview [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It? Henry J. Aaron and Paul B. Ginsburg [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Income, Insurance, And Technology: Why Does Health Spending Outpace Economic Growth? Sheila Smith, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Mark S. Freeland [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Attitudes Toward Health Care Spending Aren’t The Problem; Prices Are Jonathan Oberlander and Joseph White [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Cost Growth Among The Privately Insured M. Kate Bundorf, Anne Royalty, and Laurence C. Baker [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix][Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Market Failure And The Failure Of Discourse: Facing Up To The Power Of Sellers Bruce C. Vladeck and Thomas Rice [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Saving Money

PROLOGUE: Saving Money: What Works And What Doesn’t? [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

American Medical Home Runs Arnold Milstein and Elizabeth Gilbertson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth? Michael E. Chernew, Lindsay Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, and Joseph P. Newhouse [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Removing Costs From The Health Care Supply Chain: Lessons From Mass Retail John Agwunobi and Paul A. London [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Writing The New Playbook For U.S. Health Care: Lessons From Wisconsin John Toussaint [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: Combating Fraud In Health Care: An Essential Component Of Any Cost Containment Strategy Lewis Morris [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Opportunities To Improve The Quality Of Care For Advanced Illness Randall Krakauer, Claire M. Spettell, Lonny Reisman, and Marcia J. Wade [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: The NICE Way Of Influencing Health Spending: A Conversation With Sir Michael Rawlins Nicholas Timmins [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: Is The United States Ready For QALYs? Peter J. Neumann and Dan Greenberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Trillion-Dollar Geography Lesson Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Policy On Paying For Treating Hospital-Acquired Conditions: CMS Officials Respond Barry Straube and Jonathan D. Blum [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Changing Incentives

PROLOGUE: Changing The Incentives Through Payment Reform [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare Governance And Provider Payment Policy Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, and James M. Verdier [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Setting Hospital Rates To Control Costs And Boost Quality: The Maryland Experience Robert Murray [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Episode-Based Performance Measurement And Payment: Making It A Reality Peter S. Hussey, Melony E. Sorbero, Ateev Mehrotra, Hangsheng Liu, and Cheryl L. Damberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From Volume To Value: Better Ways To Pay For Health Care Harold D. Miller [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Can We Make More Progress In Measuring Physicians’ Performance To Improve The Value Of Care? Thomas P. Miller, Troyen A. Brennan, and Arnold Milstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Measurement Of And Reward For Efficiency In California’s Pay-For-Performance Program James C. Robinson, Thomas Williams, and Dolores Yanagihara [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Report From The Field

REPORT FROM THE FIELD: Mission Not Yet Accomplished? Massachusetts Contemplates Major Moves On Cost Containment Martha Bebinger [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Looking Ahead

PROLOGUE: Looking Ahead [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Enrollment Is Driving Medicaid Costs—But Two Targets Can Yield Savings John Holahan and Alshadye Yemane [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is It Time To Reexamine The Patent System’s Role In Spending Growth? Mark V. Pauly [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Improving Safety And Eliminating Redundant Tests: Cutting Costs In U.S. Hospitals Ashish K. Jha, David C. Chan, Abigail B. Ridgway, Calvin Franz, and David W. Bates [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Medicare’s Policy Not To Pay For Treating Hospital-Acquired Conditions: The Impact Peter D. McNair, Harold S. Luft, and Andrew B. Bindman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Making The ‘Pay’ Matter In Pay-For-Performance: Implications For Payment Strategies Rachel M. Werner and R. Adams Dudley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Shingles Does It Jack Coulehan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Adventures In (Health-Insurance-Claim) Wonderland Amanda J. Redig [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Reducing Racial Disparities In Coronary Angiography Joel C. Cantor, Derek DeLia, Amy Tiedemann, Ava Stanley, and Karl Kronebusch [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Risk Appraisals: How Much Do They Influence Employees’ Health Behavior? Haiden A. Huskamp and Meredith B. Rosenthal [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Grantwatch Online 29 September][Grantwatch Online 22 October] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Wrestling With The Dragon: Presidential Power And Health Reform Jeff Goldsmith [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

There Is A Better Way Henry J. Aaron [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medication Treatment For ADHD: Controversy Abounds Susan H. Busch [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Average Out-Of-Pocket Spending For Families Laura Clay Trueman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Out-Of-Pocket Spending: The Authors Respond Jon Gabel [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Inadequacy Of Access To Substance Use Benefits Carol McDaid [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Substance Use Benefits: The Author Responds Keith Dixon [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Conditions Among Returning Veterans Ira R. Katz [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Care For Veterans: The Authors Respond Terri Tanielian [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Ethical Guidelines For Employee Behavior Change Jeff Levin-Scherz and Harlan Levine [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does Prevention Save Money? Thomas E. Kottke, Nicolaas P. Pronk, and George J. Isham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prevention: Goetzel Responds Ron Goetzel [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prevention: Russell Responds Louise Russell [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

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

Web Exclusives

Health Care Reform Requires Law Reform Timothy S. Jost (published online 16 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Broadened Use Of Atypical Antipsychotics: Safety, Effectiveness, And Policy Challenges Stephen Crystal, Mark Olfson, Cecilia Huang, Harold Pincus, and Tobias Gerhard (published online 21 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendices][TOC] [Reprints & Permissions]

Developing A Policy For Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs Robert A. Rosenheck and Michael J. Sernyak (published online 21 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Comparative Effectiveness Research For Antipsychotic Medications: How Much Is Enough? David O. Meltzer, Anirban Basu, and Herbert Y. Meltzer (published online 21 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

Charitable Expectations Of Nonprofit Hospitals: Lessons From Maryland Bradford H. Gray and Mark Schlesinger (published online 23 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates Eric A. Finkelstein, Justin G. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen, and William Dietz (published online 27 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Medicare Could Get Better Prices On Prescription Drugs Kevin Outterson and Aaron S. Kesselheim (published online 30 July 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TECHWATCH: Games For Health: The Latest Tool In The Medical Care Arsenal Carleen Hawn (published online 4 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Estimates Of Health Care Professional Shortages In Sub-Saharan Africa By 2015 Richard M. Scheffler, Chris Brown Mahoney, Brent D. Fulton, Mario R. Dal Poz, and Alexander S. Preker (published online 6 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix][Table Of Contents] [Reprints & Permissions]

Job Satisfaction And Morale In The Ugandan Health Workforce Amy Hagopian, Anneke Zuyderduin, Naomi Kyobutungi, and Fatu Yumkella (published online 6 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Quality Of Emergency Obstetrical Surgery By Assistant Medical Officers In Tanzanian District Hospitals Colin McCord, Godfrey Mbaruku, Caetano Pereira, Calist Nzabuhakwa, and Staffan Bergstrom (published online 6 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Connecting The Ivory Tower To Main Street: Setting Research Priorities For Real-World Impact Claudia L. Schur, Marc L. Berk, Lauren E. Silver, Jill M. Yegian, and Michael J. O’Grady (published online 11 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Unhealthy State Of Health Policy Research Sumit R. Majumdar and Stephen B. Soumerai (published online 11 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access, Cost, And Financing: Achieving An Ethical Health Reform Norman Daniels, Brendan Saloner, and Adriane H. Gelpi (published online 18 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Table Of Contents] [Reprints & Permissions]

Putting The Public’s Money Where Its Mouth Is Daniel P. Kessler and David W. Brady (published online 18 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Reforming The Medicaid Disproportionate-Share Hospital Program Aaron McKethan, Nadia Nguyen, Benjamin E. Sasse, and S. Lawrence Kocot (published online 18 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does Telemonitoring Of Patients—The eICU—Improve Intensive Care? Robert A. Berenson, Joy M. Grossman, and Elizabeth A. November (published online 20 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Additional Sources] [Reprints & Permissions]

Expert Review Of Drug Patent Applications: Improving Health In The Developing World Tahir Amin, Rahul Rajkumar, Priti Radhakrishnan, and Aaron S. Kesselheim (published online 25 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Table Of Contents] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Trade Agreement’s Impact On Access To Generic Drugs Ellen R. Shaffer and Joseph E. Brenner (published online 25 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Global Drug Discovery: Europe Is Ahead Donald W. Light (published online 25 August 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Using Clinical Information To Project Federal Health Care Spending Elbert S. Huang, Anirban Basu, Michael J. O’Grady, and James C. Capretta (published online 1 September 2009) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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