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| Jon GabelSummaryAffiliation: Center for Studying Health System Change Country: USA Publications
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Health benefits in 2005: premium increases slow down, coverage continues to erodeJon Gabel
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1273-80. 2005..Enrollment in preferred provider organizations (PPOs) grew from 55 percent in 2004 to 61 percent in 2005, while enrollment in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) fell from 25 percent to 21 percent of the total...- Generosity and adjusted premiums in job-based insurance: Hawaii is up, Wyoming is downJon Gabel
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:832-43. 2006..They are 25 percent higher in indemnity plans and 18 percent higher in preferred provider organizations than in health maintenance organizations. The generosity of coverage increased from 1997 to 2002... - Health benefits in 2007: premium increases fall to an eight-year low, while offer rates and enrollment remain stableGary Claxton
Health Care Marketplace Project, Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation KFF, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1407-16. 2007..Despite the comparatively modest increase in premiums during a period of strong economic growth, the percentage of workers obtaining coverage from their employer remained statistically unchanged... - Health benefits in 2003: premiums reach thirteen-year high as employers adopt new forms of cost sharingJon Gabel
Health Systems Studies, Health Research and Educational Trust, Washington, D.C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:117-26. 2003..There was no change in the percentage of employers offering health plans to their workers. Employers indicate little confidence in any future strategies for controlling health care costs... - Health benefits in 2006: premium increases moderate, enrollment in consumer-directed health plans remains modestGary Claxton
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w476-85. 2006..About 4 percent of workers are enrolled in high-deductible health plans with savings options. The percentage of workers covered by their own employer did not statistically change from 2005 to 2006... - Trends in the golden state: small-group premiums rise sharply while actuarial values for individual coverage plummetJon Gabel
NORC, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w488-99. 2007..In the small-group market, premiums rose more than 50 percent from 2003 to 2006, but the proportion of claims paid by insurers for a standardized population remained constant... - Health benefits in 2004: four years of double-digit premium increases take their toll on coverageJon Gabel
Health Research and Educational Trust in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:200-9. 2004..The worst of the current round of premium inflation appears to be over, but employers plan to increase employee cost sharing next year [corrected].. - What high-deductible plans look like: findings from a national survey of employers, 2005Gary Claxton
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation KFF, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..One in three employers offering a high-deductible health plan that is HSA-qualified do not contribute to HSAs established by their workers... - Individual insurance: how much financial protection does it provide?Jon Gabel
Health Research and Educational Trust HRET, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2002..At 200 percent of poverty, the top 25 percent of health care users with individual coverage would spend 11 percent of their income for out-of-pocket health care expenses, as opposed to 6 percent for persons with group coverage... - Job-based health benefits in 2002: some important trendsJon Gabel
Health Research and Educational Trust, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:143-51. 2002..Because increasing claims expenses rather than the underwriting cycle are the major driver of rising premiums, double-digit growth appears likely to continue... - Potentially inappropriate medication use by Medicaid+Choice beneficiaries in the last year of lifeCheryl Fahlman
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, Washington, DC 20024, USA
J Palliat Med 10:686-95. 2007..Regardless of the payer and the period studied the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly ranged from 21% to 40%... - Employers' views on incremental measures to expand health coverageHeidi Whitmore
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1668-78. 2006..Both support policies that would require additional administrative action as opposed to greater financial commitment on the part of firms in expanding coverage... - Prescription drug spending for Medicare+Choice beneficiaries in the last year of lifeCheryl Fahlman
Center for Health System Change, Washington, D C 20024, USA
J Palliat Med 9:884-93. 2006..In 2006, Medicare implemented its prescription benefit plan. Therefore, insights into medication costs at the end of life may help guide clinicians to navigate Medicare Part D coverage for chronically ill individuals... - The next wave in payment looms. Consumer-driven health plans confer new risks on patients and providersJon Gabel
Health Research and Educational Trust, Washington, DC, USA
Mod Healthc 33:23. 2003 - Workers and their health plans: free to choose?Thomas Rice
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:182-7. 2002 
Differences in Medicare expenditures during the last 3 years of lifeLisa R Shugarman
RAND, Santa Monica, Calif 90407 2138, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:127-35. 2004..To examine age, gender, race, and area income differences in Medicare expenditures in the 3 years before death...- Financial protection afforded by employer-sponsored health insurance: current plan designs and high-deductible health plansRoland McDevitt
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:212-28. 2007.... - Managed care and employer premiumsMichael A Morrisey
Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd Suite 330, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Int J Health Care Finance Econ 3:95-116. 2003..Higher levels of HMO penetration led to smaller increases in conventional and PPO premiums for firms with self-insured plans, but also yielded smaller premium reductions from HMOs relative to those with purchased coverage...