... by Tal Gross and Miriam J. Laugesen in this special issue examines many of the explanations that have been offered to explain why United States has higher prices than the other countries. With the possible exception of rent-seeking behavior (discussed below), the authors are correct...

...Victor G. Rodwin Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Can the right mix of generalists and specialists produce the needed fix? For good drinks, getting the mix right is surely critical; not so for the physician specialty mix in health policy, because, as Miriam J. Laugesen argues...

...Jonathan Oberlander This review was commissioned by former JHPPL book review editor Rick Mayes and edited by Eric Patashnik. Miriam J. Laugesen . Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 . 288 pp. $35 , hardback...

...Tal Gross; Miriam J. Laugesen Abstract Higher prices are increasingly recognized as a significant cause of the outlier status of the United States in health care expenditures. At the same time, various explanations are often invoked to justify higher prices as rational or even defensible. We...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Abstract The conventional wisdom that the United States has an imbalance of specialty and generalist physicians is supported by data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which show that just 12 percent of physicians in the United States...

...Steven B. Spivack; Miriam J. Laugesen; Jonathan Oberlander Abstract Organized medicine long yearned for the demise of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for updating physician fees. Congress finally obliged in 2015, repealing the SGR as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Civilized Medicine: Physicians and Health Care Reform Miriam J. Laugesen Columbia University This is a true milestone in this process...

...Carole Roan Gresenz; Miriam J. Laugesen; Ambeshie Yesus; José J. Escarce Affordability is integral to the success of health care reforms aimed at ensuring universal access to health insurance coverage, and affordability determinations have major policy and practical consequences. This article...

...Peter C. Rockers; Margaret E. Kruk; Miriam J. Laugesen In low- and middle-income countries, health care systems are an important means by which individuals interact with their government. As such, aspects of health systems in these countries may be associated with public trust in government...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Among practitioners and proponents, the accountable care organization (ACO) model is usually characterized as a disruptive innovation in US health care that reflects over two decades of calls for quality-based payments within...

...Miriam J. Laugesen; Michael K. Gusmano Abstract The authors reflect on their own work in relation to the articles in this special section on physician organizations, and they make four observations. First, association-government power relations shift after countries introduce universal health...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Abstract Membership in the American Medical Association (AMA) has suffered a precipitous decline since the 1970s and, with it, a loss in revenue. The expansion of subsidized student memberships has bolstered its official membership number; only 12.6% of physicians who have...

...Miriam J. Laugesen; Eric M. Patashnik Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The opioid epidemic ranks as one of the most serious and tragic public health crises in US history. The cost in human lives, health care, and lost work productivity is staggering. While...

...Miriam J. Laugesen; Thomas Rice Until recently, physicians were viewed as the dominant player in health policy. Now, however, they compete with many other effective interest groups. This article analyzes this changing role, and specifically how organized medicine has changed its approach...

...Miriam Laugesen Market-oriented health policy reforms in the 1980s and 1990s generally included five kinds of proposals: increased cost sharing for patients through user fees, the separation of purchaser-provider functions, management reforms of hospitals, provider competition, and vouchers...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Physicians' fees under Medicare are updated by regulation annually based on a formula called the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Since 2003 Congress has reversed impending cuts to fees in response to physician calls for reform of the SGR, yet physician groups supported the SGR...

... examines the benefits and dangers of increased agency discretion under the development of new independent commissions under the ACA, such as an independent Medicare commission, an innovations center, and an Institute of Medicine commission. Finally, Miriam J. Laugesen focuses on the American Medical...

...: A Sociological Analysis . Berkeley : University of California Press . Laugesen Miriam J. 2016 . Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Laugesen Miriam J. , and Rice Thomas . 2003 . “ Is the Doctor In? The Evolving Role...

... ; Tuohy 1999 ). 6. On the history and evolution of these internal disagreements during historic landmark reform efforts, see Campion 1984 ; Chapin 2017 ; Laugesen and Rice 2003 ; Skocpol 1997 ; Swenson forthcoming ; and Quadagno 2011 . References AMA (American Medical Association...

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