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...Ulrike Lepont Abstract Context: In the late 2000s, the contention that quality improvements achieved by reforms in the delivery of care would slow the growth of costs throughout the US health care system became the predominant strategy for cost containment in the discourses and programs of all...

...Peter J. Hammer The American health care system embodies a complex amalgamation of fractured and conflicting parts. As such, any call to enhance quality or competition necessarily presupposes some ability to introduce greater harmony and coordination. But how does one make a complicated system work...

.... 2003 . Benefits of and Barriers to Large Medical Group Practice in the United States. Archives of Internal Medicine 163 : 1958 -1964. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 2005. Rewarding Superior Quality Care: The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration. Fact Sheet...

...Cara S. Lesser; Paul B. Ginsburg Drawing on observations from tracking changes in local health care markets over the past ten years, this article critiques two Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice recommendations to enhance price and quality competition. First, we take issue...

... limited these patient responses. The results indicate modest changes consistent with an increase in quality-seeking behavior for several services for which research indicates a volume-outcome relationship. At the same time, there are services for which trends have been moving in the opposite direction...

...Roger Feldman In this article, I argue that unregulated markets will not find the right level of health care quality but that at the same time it is not clear that single-payer systems will do any better. My perspective combines the economic theory of public goods and the institutional payment...

...John A. Nyman; Cynthia R. Geyer It has been assumed that the best policy for promoting quality of life in nursing homes is direct regulation. In this paper it is argued that if our experience in regulating quality of care is any indication, we may not possess the political will to successfully...

... Health Insurance in a System Designed to Promote Quality and Economy. New England Journal of Medicine 320 ( 2 ): 29 -37, 94-101. Feldman , R. , B. Dowd, M. Finch, and S. Cassou. 1989 . Employer-based Health Insurance. DHHS (PHS) 89–3434. Springfield, VA: National Technical Information...

...Jennifer L. Troyer; Herbert G. Thompson, Jr. Government reports indicate that regulations have been ineffective in improving quality of care in many nursing homes. Some analysts feel that litigation against nursing homes may be the result of quality problems that are monitored during the inspection...

... Books Kirsten Costain Schou and Jenny Hewison. Experiencing Cancer: Quality of Life in Treatment. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 1998. 197 pp. $85.00 cloth; $27.95 paper. Experiencing Cancer: Quality of Life in Treatment, by Kirsten Costain...

... of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. New England Journal of Medicine 324 (6): 370 -376. Brennan, Troyen A., and Donald M. Berwick. 1996 . New Rules: Regulation, Markets and the Quality of American Health Care . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Carter, Richard. 1958 . The Doctor Business . New York...

...Nelda McCall; Thomas Rice; Arden Hall This paper examines the effects of state regulations on the quality of insurance policies sold to Medicare beneficiaries and on the amount of sales abuse reported in the sale of such policies. State regulations regarding such policies relate to policy content...

...Mark S. Freeland; Sandra S. Hunt; Harold S. Luft There is a burgeoning interest in selective contracting for specialized hospital services based on volume, price, and quality. The systematic exclusion or inclusion of particular institutions has been extolled by some as an arrangement to reduce...

... Quality, Information, and Choice in Managed Care. Inquiry 35 ( 2 ): 104 -114. Gabel , J. K. 1997 . Ten Ways HMOs Have Changed during the 1990s. Health Affairs 16 ( 3 ): 134 -145. Gabel , J. K. , K. Hunt, and K. Hurst. 1998 . When Employers Choose Health Plans: Do NCQA...

... and, presumably, many other people. 20 January. Ignagni , Karen . 1998 . Covering a Breaking Revolution: The Media and Managed Care. Health Affairs 17 ( 1 ): 26 -34. Quality in an Information Age. 1998 . Special issue of Health Affairs 17(4). White , Joseph . 1999 . Targets and Systems...

... to approve new drugs have evolved over the past two decades along with greater use of expedited regulatory pathways and changes in the nature of drugs being evaluated. While flexibility in regulatory standards is important, policy changes can emphasize high-quality data collection before or after FDA...