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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Eric T. Juengst Philip R. Reilly. The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 190 pp. $19.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 830 Journal of Health Politics, Policy...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 June 1990
...Phoebe A. Lindsey; Joseph P. Newhouse Second surgical opinion programs (SSOPs) have been used since 1972 by both public and private insurers to improve the patient's information and decision processes and to reduce operative risks and costs attributable to questionable and perhaps unnecessary...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 191–227.
Published: 01 February 1989
...; the certification of transplant centers; the evaluation of new surgical procedures; and the issues of financing, distributive justice, and rationing of scarce medical resources. The author finds that the media, though powerful in affecting transplant policy, have not been subjected to critical analysis. Organ...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (5): 833–854.
Published: 01 October 2002
... with the hospital events, the typical successful claimant was younger and female and was much more likely to have experienced a surgical adverse event that, while unexpected, was not due to substandard care. It is concluded that, in interpreting these results, account needs to be taken of a number of features...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 115–167.
Published: 01 February 1989
... which designation decisions rest is weak. The authors then review the literature on the relationship between volumes and outcomes on surgical services with particular reference to organ transplantation, which on the whole suggests that a relationship between volumes and outcomes exists. Original...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 1997
...: reduced utilization in areas with fee increases and increased utilization in areas with fee decreases. An exception was that African Americans, those without supplemental insurance, and those with low incomes in areas of fee decrease saw reductions in the use of surgical services relative...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (6): 1307–1330.
Published: 01 December 1999
... hypothesize that physicians consider relative payment rates when choosing which patients to treat in their practices. When Medicare reduces its payments for surgical procedures, as it did in the late 1980s, physicians are predicted to treat more privately insured patients because they become more lucrative...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (3): 483–500.
Published: 01 June 1986
...Richard Schwindt; Aidan R. Vining Improvements in surgical procedures and immunosuppressive practices have greatly increased the range and success rate of organ transplants. Unfortunately, supply does not meet demand, and demand is increasing. This paper documents the current level of unsatisfied...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (2): 239–261.
Published: 01 April 1988
... derived from a standard monopoly pricing model. Spurred in part by our work, numerous empirical studies of the demand inducement model have been conducted. These studies found little evidence of demand inducement for primary care physician services. Demand inducement may exist in the market for surgical...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (3): 513–538.
Published: 01 June 2017
... corporatist actors and by the Federal Joint Committee as the regulator. Minimum volumes regulation was inspired by scientific evidence suggesting a positive relationship between service volume and patient outcomes for complex surgical interventions. Federal legislation was introduced in 2002 to delegate...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1977) 2 (2): 227–256.
Published: 01 April 1977
...-graduate MDs and DOs in the U.S. is projected to increase by approximately 50 percent in the decade ending in 1985. The number of active physicians per 100,000 population is similarly expected to increase by approximately one-third. The production of surgical specialists, in particular, appears...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 February 2023
... for medical/surgical benefits in commercial health plans. State insurance departments oversee enforcement for certain plans. Insufficient enforcement is one potential source of continued MH/SUD treatment gaps among commercial insurance enrollees. This study explored state-level factors that may drive...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (2): 397–399.
Published: 01 April 1991
...Madelon Lubin Finkel; Eugene G. McCarthy Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Finkel , M. L. Unpublished data. Lindsey , P. A. , and J. P. Newhouse 1990 . The Cost and Value of Second Surgical Opinion Programs: A Critical Review of the Literature...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (4): 741–809.
Published: 01 August 1987
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Table 4. Studies Analyzing Surgical or Medical Procedures
Use Measures Analyzed Study Numbers
Total surgery or specific procedure 2-4, 6, 7.5, 8, 11-13, 15-17, 24,
27, 28...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1978) 3 (3): 345–360.
Published: 01 June 1978
... does exist and to explore its causes. We shall focus on
neurosurgery because it is a particularly good example of the general
situation with respect to the physician specialties. In addition, the claimed
social cost resulting from excess capacity (in this case, insufficient surgical...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1991) 16 (3): 573–588.
Published: 01 June 1991
.... Chassin , M. R. , R. H. Brook, R. E. Park, J. Keesey, A. Fink, J. Kosecoff, K. Kahn, N. Merrick, and D. H. Solomon. 1986 . Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population. New England Journal of Medicine 314 : 285 -90. Chassin , M. R. , J. Kosecoff, R. E...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (4): 629–647.
Published: 01 August 2023
... consistency across time and with other similar processes or facilities (e.g., abortion facilities should not be treated differently from other ambulatory surgical facilities). Additionally, unlimited discretion threatens patient-centered care and decision making that more appropriately belongs within...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (2): 303–313.
Published: 01 April 2019
... on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 1976 ; Institute of Medicine 2010). Research in this area has looked at surgical differences between service areas (Wennberg 2014 ) and explored the effects on surgical rates of tissue committee reports, second opinion programs, and educational initiatives focused...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 9 (4): 595–609.
Published: 01 August 1985
... for surgical services. In their
study of this natural experiment, Schwartz et al. focused on how the change in
payment levels affected the provision of surgical services, using Medicaid claims
data for the 44-month period from May 1975 to December 1978. They examined
eight common surgical procedures...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 10 (4): 625–658.
Published: 01 August 1986
.... The analysis does not extend into the 1980s because of potentially con-
founding effects of utilization review programs (such as preadmission certification
and second surgical opinions), and of benefit redesign in conventional insurance.
The health insurance market in Hawaii has historically been...
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