..., Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito not only wrote a joint opinion on the commerce clause virtually identical to that of their chief, but that in writing it they did not refer to or even acknowledge his opinion. Finally surprising was the fact that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen...

...Stephen Page This article develops a framework that distinguishes four types of competitive strategies that physicians' organizations can adopt in their interactions with health plans. Two types of strategies protect physicians'incomes and autonomy from incursion and control by insurers; the other...

...A. J. Culyer; Stephen Birch There is always a temptation to suppose that one's own problems (whether personal or national) are unique. They rarely are. The “problem” of the elderly is no exception and so there is no particular point in looking to the specific characteristics of one's own health...

...Stephen M. Shortell; Ann P. Zukoski; Jeffrey A. Alexander; Gloria J. Bazzoli; Douglas A. Conrad; Romana Hasnain-Wynia; Shoshanna Sofaer; Benjamin Y. Chan; Elizabeth Casey; Frances S. Margolin Private-public partnerships are increasingly seen as an important mechanism for improving community health...

...Randall R. Bovbjerg; Lisa C. Dubay; Genevieve M. Kenney; Stephen A. Norton Quantitative analysis of medical liability’s influence on medical practice is a small but growing field. The three foregoing articles illustrate three of the possible analytic approaches: case study of technological...

...Stephen J. Spurr; Walter O. Simmons We analyzed the factors determining the amount of the recovery on claims based on medical malpractice. Our data set, which previously was not explored, consists of 20,428 claims arising within Michigan that were closed between 1978 and 1990. During this period...

...Ira Moscovice; Patricia Armstrong; Stephen Shortell; Roger Bennett In an effort to make health manpower training programs and health services research and policy analysis activities more responsive to health care needs in Washington State, a Delphi process was used to obtain perceptions of critical...

...Stephen M. Davidson Many federal laws permit the states considerable latitude in determining the important characteristics of programs created under them. Yet, frequently, this aspect is overlooked in the analyses of differences in state-level programs. The purpose of this paper is to present a...

...Stephen Klaidman; Tom L. Beauchamp A review of national television, magazine, and newspaper coverage of the case of Baby Jane Doe indicates that most of it lacked perspective and context: stories were generally incomplete and often imprecise; reporting was sometimes inaccurate; and overall...

...Stephen Shmanske; Tina Stevens In this paper we present the results of an empirical study of Arizona's medical malpractice review panels. We compare insurance company claim files data from before and after the implementation of panels to analyze the effects of the panel system. The data indicate...

...Stephen H. Linder There is a notable lack of scientific consensus on whether electric and magnetic fields (EMF) constitute a health risk in need of systematic control. Even those who see EMF as a public problem, share few assumptions about the type of problem it represents, whether serious risks to...

...Nancy M. Kane; Stephen A. Magnus Health policy makers, legislators, providers, payers, and a broad range of other players in the health care market routinely seek information on hospital financial performance. Yet the data at their disposal are limited, especially since hospitals' audited financial...

...Stephen Jackson; Jason L. Powell Alan Walker and Gerhard Naegele, eds. The Politics of Old Age in Europe . Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999. 237 pp. $95.00 cloth; $28.95 paper. Richard Saltman, Josep Figueras, and Constantino Sakellarides, eds. Critical Challenges for Health Care Reform...

...John Holahan; Avi Dor; Stephen Zuckerman We use data from 1983 and 1985 on the volume of Medicare physician services to analyze whether Medicare's Prospective Payment System (PPS), which resulted in a significant decline in hospital spending, led to a partially offsetting increase in real...

...Stephen M. Shortell; Carrie H. Colla; Valerie A. Lewis; Elliott Fisher; Eric Kessell; Patricia Ramsay Abstract There are now more than seven hundred accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the United States. This article describes some of their most salient characteristics including the number and...

...Eric Kessell; Vishaal Pegany; Beth Keolanui; Brent D. Fulton; Richard M. Scheffler; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have proliferated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If ACOs are to improve health care quality and lower costs, quality measures will be...

...Lawrence P. Casalino; Natalie Erb; Maulik S. Joshi; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving “population health,” by which they nearly always mean the health of the “population” of patients “attributed” by Medicare, Medicaid, or...

...Stephen M. Davidson Brill Steven . America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System . New York : Random House , 2015 . 528 pp. $28.00 cloth; $18.00 paper. Klein Philip . Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the...

...Stephen H. Linder William Leiss and Christina Chociolko. Risk and Responsibility . Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994. 405 pp. $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews 1075 measure “outputs” is somewhat obscure and too...

...Stephen M. Davidson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Blendon , R. J. , M. Brodie, J. M. Benson, D. E. Altman, L. Levitt, T. Hoff, and L. Hugick. 1998 . Understanding the Managed Care Backlash. Health Affairs 17 ( 4 ): 80 -94. Davidson , S. M. , M...