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| William E EncinosaSummaryAffiliation: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Country: USA Publications
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The economics of regulatory mandates on the HMO marketW Encinosa
Center for Organization and Delivery Studies, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Suite 605, 2101 E Jefferson Street, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Health Econ 20:85-107. 2001..This involves HMOs setting quality at the minimum standard, even when their quality would be above the standard in an unregulated market. Finally, I show how premiums may either increase or decrease under a mandate...
Recent improvements in bariatric surgery outcomesWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Med Care 47:531-5. 2009..Outcomes and costs were risk-adjusted using multivariate regression methods with hospital fixed effects...- Healthcare utilization and outcomes after bariatric surgeryWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Med Care 44:706-12. 2006..6 million nonelderly people covered by large employers in the 2001-2002 MarketScan data. Outcomes and costs were risk-adjusted using multivariate regression methods... - Hospital finances and patient safety outcomesWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Inquiry 42:60-72. 2005..The finding that a within-hospital erosion of hospital operating profits increases the rate of adverse patient safety events suggests that any cost-cutting efforts be carefully designed and managed... - Use and costs of bariatric surgery and prescription weight-loss medicationsWilliam E Encinosa
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1039-46. 2005..The inpatient death rate declined 64 percent. Among employers that covered weight-loss drugs in 2002, less than 2.4 percent of adults clinically eligible for these drugs used them, with average annual spending of $304 per user... - Have state caps on malpractice awards increased the supply of physicians?William E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..Rural counties in states with a dollar 250,000 cap had 5.4 percent more obstetrician-gynecologists and 5.5 percent more surgical specialists per capita than did rural counties in states with a cap above dollar 250,000... - A comment on Neudeck and Podczeck's "adverse selection and regulation in health insurance markets"W Encinosa
Center for Organization and Delivery Studies, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Health Econ 20:667-73. 2001..This is of interest since in 1997 more than half of establishments in the US offering choice of multiple plans did so through a single insurer... - The cost and incidence of prescribing errors among privately insured HIV patientsFred J Hellinger
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 28:23-34. 2010..Physicians require knowledge about all drugs taken by HIV patients in order to assess accurately the benefits and risks of various drug combinations... - Wealth, income, and the affordability of health insuranceDidem M Bernard
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ in Rockville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:887-96. 2009..2 times that of the uninsured. Our results suggest that assets are an important determinant of effective affordability, undermining the notion that many people are uninsured by choice... 
The impact of state laws limiting malpractice damage awards on health care expendituresFred J Hellinger
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1375-81. 2006..Estimates from these models suggest that laws limiting malpractice payments lower state health care expenditures by between 3% and 4%...- Advances in bariatric surgery for obesity: laparoscopic surgeryWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res 17:131-48. 2007..The most advanced and fastest growing form of bariatric surgery is laparoscopic gastric bypass. Very little is known about population-based 180-day laparoscopic bypass costs, complication rates, readmission rates, and post-operative care... - OBRA 1987 and the quality of nursing home careVirender Kumar
Westat, 1650 Research Boulevard, Room RE 380, Rockville, MD 20850 3195, USA
Int J Health Care Finance Econ 6:49-81. 2006..But, this legislation had no statistically significant effect in the later period when the regulation was weakly enforced... - The impact of medical errors on ninety-day costs and outcomes: an examination of surgical patientsWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, USA
Health Serv Res 43:2067-85. 2008..To estimate the effect of medical errors on medical expenditures, death, readmissions, and outpatient care within 90 days after surgery... - Value-based insurance design in MedicareWilliam E Encinosa
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Appl Health Econ Health Policy 7:149-54. 2009.... - Health care expenditure burdens among adults with diabetes in 2001Didem M Bernard
Division of Modeling and Simulation, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Med Care 44:210-5. 2006..We examined financial burdens among adults with diabetes using nationally representative data... - Inappropriate drug combinations among privately insured patients with HIV diseaseFred J Hellinger
Center for Delivery Organization and Markets Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Med Care 43:III53-62. 2005..The objective of this study was to examine inappropriate drug combinations among privately insured patients with HIV disease... - Health information technology and its effects on hospital costs, outcomes, and patient safetyWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Inquiry 48:288-303. 2011..75 per $1 spent on IT capital. Thus, EMRs contain costs by better coordinating care to rescue patients from medical errors once they occur... - Antiretroviral therapy and health care utilization: a study of privately insured men and women with HIV diseaseFred J Hellinger
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, CDOM, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Health Serv Res 39:949-67. 2004..CONCLUSION: There are major differences in the utilization and cost of health care between privately insured men and women with HIV disease... - Does prescription drug adherence reduce hospitalizations and costs? The case of diabetesWilliam E Encinosa
Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Rockville, MD, USA
Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res 22:151-73. 2010..To estimate the impact of diabetic drug adherence on hospitalizations, emergency room (ER) visits, and hospital costs... - Despite 2007 law requiring FDA hotline to be included in print drug ads, reporting of adverse events by consumers still lowDongyi Du
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:1022-9. 2012..The study results suggest that additional measures, such as more publicity about the Adverse Event Reporting System or more consumer education, should be considered to promote patient reporting of adverse events...