... And Rice Mark V. Pauly University of Pennsylvania I have been asked to comment on the articles by Evans and Rice from the perspective of someone who looks with favor on the use of markets to organize and finance...

... and American Medicine: The Economics of the American Medical Association. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co. Reiss , P. C. 1996 . Empirical Models of Discrete Strategic Choice. American Economic Review 86:421. Rice , T. 1992 . An Alternative Framework for Evaluating Welfare Losses...

...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...

...Dorothy P. Rice; Douglas Wilson Federal initiatives during the last decade have resulted in considerable changes in the American medical economy. Large sums of money have been infused into the system under Medicare and Medicaid, substantially improving access to care for the aged and the poor...

...Thomas Rice; Janet Cummings The Medicare prescription drug benefit relies on private insurers. In most states, there are nearly fifty competing insurance plans available. The sheer number of choices makes it extremely difficult for Medicare beneficiaries, many of whom must cope with declining...

...Thomas Rice © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Adler N. E. Rehkopf D. H. . 2008 . U.S. Disparities in Health: Descriptions, Causes, and Mechanisms . Annual Review of Public Health 29 : 235 – 252 . Congressional Budget Office . 2010 . Letter...

...Donald Rice This article will discuss judicial involvement in Colorado prison health care, the interactions between Colorado State government and the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the effect that such judicial involvement has had on the status of overall prison...

...Jon R. Gabel; Thomas H. Rice The purpose of this paper is to examine how physicians respond to changes in payment levels from government insurers. Our analysis focuses on two issues: controlling overall program expenditures, and assuring full access to care for program clients. We review evidence...

...Jon Gabel; Dan Ermann; Thomas Rice; Gregory de Lissovoy A new development in the restructuring of American health care is the dramatic growth of preferred provider organizations (PPOs). Based on a national telephone survey, this paper assesses the future direction of PPOs by examining segments...

...Thomas Rice; Brian Biles; E. Richard Brown; Finn Diderichsen; Hagen Kuehn 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Aday, L., R. Andersen, and G. V. Fleming. 1980 . Health Care in the U.S.: Equitable to Whom ? Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Brown, L. D. 1998 . Exceptionalism as the Rule? U.S...

...Dorothy P. Rice Robert M. Ball. Insuring the Essentials: Bob Ball on Social Security. New York: Century Foundation Press, 2000. 324 pp. $14.95 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.6 09 Books 12/18/01 2:34 PM Page 1403...

...Thomas Rice; Jon Gabel; Gregory de Lissovoy This paper reports the results of a national survey on employer experiences with preferred provider organizations (PPOs). The survey, conducted in 1987, included information from almost 700 telephone interviews with employee benefit managers. We found...

...Thomas Rice; Mark A. Peterson © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 In Memoriam Remembering Rick Brown E. Richard (Rick) Brown, our close colleague and friend, died of a stroke on April 20, 2012, in Lexington, Kentucky...

...Thomas H. Rice; Roberta J. Labelle In this paper we provide a critique of an article by Roger Feldman and Frank Sloan that appeared in the Summer 1988 issue of this journal. In that article, the authors contend that there is little evidence to support the notion of supplier-induced demand...

...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...

...Thomas Rice; Lyle Nelson; David C. Colby We assess the potential of increased economic competition by examining whether Medicare beneficiaries are willing to switch to physicians who agree to accept all services on assignment. Data come from a survey of Medicare beneficiaries conducted in November...

...Thomas Rice; Lyle Nelson; David C. Colby References Marquis , M. S. 1985 . Cost-sharing and Provider Choice. Journal of Health Economics 4 ( 2 ): 137 -157. Rosenbach , M. L. , B. Harrow, and J. B. Mitchell. 1988 . Trends in Medicare Participation and Assignment Rates, 1984...

...Peter D. Fox; Thomas Rice; Lisa Alecxih Congress enacted legislation in 1990 that dramatically changed the rules for selling supplemental health insurance, or “Medigap” policies, to the elderly. Most notably, policy coverage was standardized. Insurance carriers are allowed to sell only the ten...

...David C. Colby; Thomas Rice; Jill Bernstein; Lyle Nelson Medicare's experience with balance billing provides valuable lessons for policy making for national or state health care reform. Medicare developed several policies to encourage physicians to become participating providers who accept Medicare...

...Thomas Rice; Sally C. Stearns; Donald E. Pathman; Susan DesHarnais; Michelle Brasure; Ming Tai-Seale This study examines how the volume of privately insured services provided in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments changes in response to reductions in Medicare physician payments. We...