Sherry Glied

..We estimate payer compliance at approximately 33%. Coverage compliance is lower, at under 25%. We find weak evidence that the MSP caused older workers to shift toward MSP-exempt jobs...

..This helps explain why the use of affordability in health policymaking is so different from its use in these other contexts. I conclude with some suggestions about how to improve affordability exemption rules in health policymaking...

..Over the past 2 decades, women's socioeconomic circumstances have changed and public policy around health insurance coverage for low-income women has also undergone substantial modification...

..We find that mandates can, but do not always, increase participation in programs. The effectiveness of a mandate depends critically on the cost of compliance, the penalties for noncompliance, and the timely enforcement of compliance...

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..A comparison of estimated and realized consequences of several health reform proposals suggests that models provided reasonably accurate estimates, with confidence bounds of approximately 30%...

..In consequence, the impact of taxes on smoking among youths overstates the potential long-term public health effects of this tobacco control strategy...

..The article also suggests ways of making models more transparent and proposes "reference case" guidelines for modelers so that consumers can compare modeling results...

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..These results suggest that reducing smoking among teens through tax policy may not be sufficient to substantially reduce smoking in adulthood...

..1 billion is lost annually from excess morbidity and mortality among the uninsured population because of lack of access to new technologies for the treatment of these three conditions...

..02; P<.001), and suicidal ideation (odds ratio, 16.59; P<.001). CONCLUSION: High levels of depressive symptoms are correlated with serious and significant consequences, even after controlling for life circumstances...

..To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study on the cost-effectiveness of the major forms of ADHD treatments used in NIMH's Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA Study)...

..Overall, the differences in system performance among the universal coverage OECD countries are very small, while the difference between the performance of any one of these countries and the United States is enormous and persistent...

..Across policies, state effects on uninsurance rates vary by at least a factor of 2.5. Uniform national strategies that target the uninsured do not generate uniform national outcomes...

..The rapid responsiveness of the private psychiatric hospital market, as exemplified by these two firms, presents significant potential for shaping future mental health policy...

..We find that making benefit receipt automatic is the most effective means of ensuring high take-up, while there is little evidence that stigma is important...

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..Existing estimates of the costs of antimicrobial resistance exhibit broad variability, and the contributing factors are not well understood. This study examines factors that contribute to variation in these estimates...

..Three of the 10 hospital-acquired conditions covered by the new CMS policy involve healthcare-associated infections, which are a common, expensive, and often preventable cause of inpatient morbidity and mortality...

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..These policies, along with scientific advances in child mental health, social changes, and health policy more generally, have contributed to an improvement in child mental health services over the past fifteen years...

..Practice composition has strong effects on treatment. Visit duration appears to be constant across patients within a practice, while medications prescribed appear to be converging as managed care penetration increases...

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..Finally, the report stresses the importance of linking costs to quality. Such a linkage is likely to lead to a health care system in which poor people obtain poor-quality care at low prices--a result that many would find disturbing...

..1% higher (P = 0.049) than that of nonparticipating teachers' students. Other program benefits include decreased teacher attrition from classroom teaching and school cost savings of U.S. $1.14 per $1 invested in the program...

..We find that more-educated individuals have a greater survival advantage in those diseases for which there has been more health-related technological progress...

..Traditional surveillance to detect HAIs and focus prevention efforts is labor intensive, and computer algorithms could be useful to screen electronic data and provide actionable information...

..We sought to estimate the association between community water fluoridation (CWF) exposure at various stages of life and adult tooth loss...

..We set out to examine which treatment option available in the United States was most cost-effective in treating children with endemic group A streptococcal pharyngitis to prevent rheumatic heart disease...

..A Delphi panel of interdisciplinary researchers then reached consensus on 17 competencies necessary for interdisciplinary research...

..All modeling approaches implicitly make assumptions about functional form that impose restrictions on unobservable heterogeneity. Those assumptions can dramatically affect the quantitative predictions made...

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..In particular, the group responsible for half of all medical spending would see no change or a decline in cost sharing at the margin and on average...

..Continued progress in the well-being of people with mental disorders requires expanded engagement of the mental health community with mainstream health policymakers...

..The analyses will match patients with resistant infections (hospital- and community-acquired) to susceptible patients and to uninfected patients. _^ ..