... purchase commitments (APCs), wherein a payer commits to purchase a certain quantity of medications at lower prices, offer payers incentives to increase access to high-value medications while also offering companies guaranteed revenue. This article discusses the use of subscription models, a type of APC...

.... Schaefer and Arthur J. Swanson. 294 pp. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988. $32.95 Collaborative Health Care: A Family-Oriented Model. By Michael L. Glenn. 220 pp. New York: Praeger, 1987. $34.95 The Controversy About American Hospitals:Funding, Ownership,and Performance. By J...

... Dissemination at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. 538 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Grants and Awards The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research has awarded a $300,000 contract to the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina to develop a model survey ques...

... Centre, 28-36 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia. K. R. Lapthrone is Director. Modeled after the King’s Fund Centre of London (U.K.) and the Scottish Health Services Centre, it includes a library of 5,500 books, 230 journal subscriptions and a staff of two to provide...

...., New York, NY 10011-4211. Annual subscriptions: individuals, $44; institutions, $89. The Final Report of the President’s Commission on Model State Drug Laws may be obtained from Sherry L. Green, Executive Director, National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws, 750 Seventeenth St. NW, Box 406...

... Angeles, CA 90017 and 1424 16th St. NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036. The Center publishes “NSCLC Washington Weekly,” a newsletter summarizing legislative and agency actions relat- ing to older Americans, at a $52 annual subscription rate. Continuing education for board members of various...

... Long-Term Care Financing Model and is currently working on a book about public and private long-term care insurance. Before coming to Brookings, he was a policy analyst for the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and did program...

... ($2.50), which may be purchased from ASTHO Foundation, lo400 Con- necticut Avenue, Suite 207, Kensington, MD 20895. Nursing Economics, a new journal presenting business perspectives for nurses, is available at an annual subscription rate of $21 ($38 for two years) from Nursing Economics...

... for the association. $14.95, plus $3 handling charge. Healthy Communities 2000: Model Standards is available from the American Public Health Association, 1015 Fifteenth St. NW, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 789- 5600. $35. Maternal and Child Health Legislation: 1991 is available from the National Confer...

... for local breast cancer in the elderly; Stan- ford University School of Medicine ($4.9 million): Principal Investigator, Mark A. Hlatky, for a five-year study to develop a model to help physicians decide how best to screen and treat patients at risk for sudden cardiac death; The Johns Hopkins Uni...

.... Any number of formulas could be devised to tie the area surtax rate to “area-wide adjusted population-based per capita health care expenditures” (or to the short-term proxies) so as to achieve the desired incentive effect. Two rough model formulas are outlined below to demonstrate the feasi...

... of comorbidity of physical and mental problems is high and, as the authors note, health settings are often the site of mental health care. They discuss the dominance of a medical model over some of the social models they outline, but at the end of their discussion one does not know how to relate...

... 1986). Thus it is important to consider carefully the policy implications and aftereffects of any proposed change in reimbursement methods. In this issue, Dada et al. present some models that might better allow large funding agencies to consider prospective payment systems to re- imburse...

... faculty member as a role model at each school over the next four years. The program director is John Eisenberg, chair of the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has also announced a $14 million program to mobilize physician...

.... With the bulk of AMA membership dues subsidizing lobbying, new organizations have started that challenge the AMA's model. Doximity.com , a start-up social media organization targeted at physicians, is based on the premise that the professionalization of physician organizations has diminished the role...

...; The Hospital 1931: 211). There were various reasons why a pure insurance model was not adopted in Britain. Depicting subscriptions as voluntary gifts ensured charitable status with ramifications for tax liability; it also reduced the risks of alien- ating philanthropists or prompting honorary...

..., designing cost- effectiveness analyses, exploring the effect of insurance design on access to care, and modeling and analyzing intersystem dynamics. Recently she has focused on interac- tions between the criminal justice and mental health systems and public policies influ- encing those interactions...

.... Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, has been appointed senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute to work on a project to develop an information age model for health, wellness, and health care. George Lundberg, who served for seventeen years as editor of the Journal of the American...

... Martin L. Brown, Program Director, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, NCI, Executive Plaza North, Ste. 300, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496-8500, fax (301) 496-8667. Data collection, statistical analysis and mathematical modeling, and information database linkage studies to monitor...

... to Sharing Ideas in Medical Consultations. By David Tuckett et al. 290 pp. New York: Methuen, Inc., 1986. $37.50 cloth, $16.95 paper Physician Assistants: Present and Future Models of Utilization. Edited by Sarah F. Zar- bock, PA-C and Kenneth Harbert, PA-C. 140 pp. New York: Praeger Publishers...