We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining since ...

After increasing for nearly two decades, rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome have recently leveled off, reaching a plateau as early as 2014. These findings may represent successful efforts to ...

Michael Batty is an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington, D.C. Benedic Ippolito ( [email protected]) is an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. Hospitals in ...

Jeffrey R. Brown ( [email protected]) is the Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gopi Shah Goda is a research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...

At the request of the Trieste Mental Health Department, the names and some identifying characteristics of patients have been changed to protect their privacy. Subsequent to publication, additional ...

National health expenditures are projected to grow 5.4 percent, on average, over the course of 2022–31 and to account for roughly 20 percent of the economy by the end of that period. The insured share ...

Thomas A. Hegland ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Terceira A. Berdahl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Job flexibility is an important ...

James J. Crall ([email protected]) is a professor in and chair of the Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles ...

Jamila Michener ([email protected]), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This article examines how racially and economically marginalized tenants built political power in response to ...

Inhalers are the mainstay of treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These products face limited generic competition in the US and remain expensive. To better understand ...

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approaches the goal of tying 90 percent of traditional Medicare payments to the value of care delivered, 1 risk adjustment—adjusting quality ...