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The intersection of long-term care and end-of-life careHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:3-44. 2012..The authors recommend areas for future research that would help to support progress on public policy that governs the provision of care at this important intersection...
Antidepressant reformulations: who uses them, and what are the benefits?Haiden A Huskamp
Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:734-45. 2009..We found some evidence of benefit for subgroups of antidepressant users, although benefits varied across reformulations...- Generic entry, reformulations and promotion of SSRIs in the USHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 26:603-16. 2008..However, little is known about how newer strategies to extend patent life, including product reformulation introduction or obtaining approval to market for additional clinical indications, influence promotion... 
Future directions for the national health expenditure accounts: conference overviewHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 28:1-8. 2006..This article summarizes the 2005 conference and highlights changes made since the previous conference, commissioned papers on future directions for NHEA projects, and participant recommendations...- Coverage and prior authorization of psychotropic drugs under Medicare Part DHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:308-10. 2007..The effect of Part D will depend on the restrictiveness of the prior authorization and appeals processes, which is currently unknown... - A new medicare end-of-life benefit for nursing home residentsHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:130-5. 2010..Nursing homes would be paid directly for end-of-life care services and held accountable for their quality... - Rejections of drug claims for nursing home residents under Medicare Part DHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:560-7. 2008..We examined data on claims in rejected status for one large long-term care pharmacy as of December 2006. There was considerable variation across PDPs in both rejection rates and reasons for rejection... - Variation in patients' hospice costsHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Inquiry 45:232-44. 2008..However, replicating these results using data from a broader, more representative sample of hospices is needed before making changes to the per diem system... - Discussions with physicians about hospice among patients with metastatic lung cancerHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:954-62. 2009..Many terminally ill patients enroll in hospice only in the final days before death or not at all. Discussing hospice with a health care provider could increase awareness of hospice and possibly result in earlier use... - Part D and dually eligible patients with mental illness: medication access problems and use of intensive servicesHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1169-74. 2009.... - Health risk appraisals: how much do they influence employees' health behavior?Haiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:1532-40. 2009..Among those who complete an HRA, use of office visits, prescription drugs, and cervical cancer screening increases compared to those who are not offered an HRA... - Long and short hospice stays among nursing home residents at the end of lifeHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Palliat Med 13:957-64. 2010..To identify characteristics of nursing homes and residents associated with particularly long or short hospice stays... - Prices, profits, and innovation: examining criticisms of new psychotropic drugs' valueHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:635-46. 2006.... - How a managed behavioral health care carve-out plan affected spending for episodes of treatmentH A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 49:1559-62. 1998..This study examined the impact on spending for episodes of mental health and substance abuse treatment of a managed behavioral health care carve-out program implemented by the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission in July 1993... - The effect of incentive-based formularies on prescription-drug utilization and spendingHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 349:2224-32. 2003..Many employers and health plans have adopted incentive-based formularies in an attempt to control prescription-drug costs... - The new medicare drug benefit: formularies and their potential effects on access to medicationsHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:662-5. 2005..Such efforts should reduce administrative burden and better allow physicians to help patients obtain needed medications... - Economic grand rounds: potential effects of the new medicare drug benefit on pricing for psychotropic medicationsHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:1056-8. 2005 - Pharmaceutical cost management and access to psychotropic drugs: the U.S. contextHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Int J Law Psychiatry 28:484-95. 2005.... - Impact of 3-tier formularies on drug treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in childrenHaiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:435-41. 2005..Many employers and health plans have adopted 3-tier formularies in an attempt to control costs for these and other drugs... - Future directions for the national health accountsH A Huskamp
Harvard University, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 21:5-13. 1999.... - Managing psychotropic drug costs: will formularies work?Haiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:84-96. 2003.... - The impact of a national prescription drug formulary on prices, market share, and spending: lessons for Medicare?Haiden A Huskamp
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:149-58. 2003..We find that the VHA National Formulary was effective at shifting prescribing behavior toward the selected drugs, achieving sizable price reductions from manufacturers, and greatly decreasing drug spending... - Angiotensin receptor blockers on the formularies of Medicare drug plansWalid F Gellad
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1172-5. 2007..The presence of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) on the formularies of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans (PDPs) is vitally important to the health of seniors who cannot tolerate angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors... - The evolution of quality management in state Medicaid agencies: a national survey of states with comprehensive managed care programsBruce E Landon
Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 28:72-82. 2002..Although increasing numbers of states collect data on satisfaction, access, and quality of care, few states have been able to document improved performance in the health plans they oversee... - Physician factors associated with discussions about end-of-life careNancy L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer 116:998-1006. 2010..Guidelines recommend advanced care planning for terminally ill patients with <1 year to live. Few data are available regarding when physicians and their terminally ill patients typically discuss end-of-life issues... - Longitudinal racial/ethnic disparities in antimanic medication use in bipolar-I disorderAlisa B Busch
Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, USA
Med Care 47:1217-28. 2009..To examine racial/ethnic longitudinal disparities in antimanic medication use among adults with bipolar-I disorder... - Antipsychotic and benzodiazepine use among nursing home residents: findings from the 2004 National Nursing Home SurveyDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:1078-92. 2010..To document the extent and appropriateness of use of antipsychotics and benzodiazepines among nursing home residents using a nationally representative survey... - Ownership status and home health care performanceDavid C Grabowski
Associate Professors of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Aging Soc Policy 21:130-43. 2009..These results highlight the importance of organizational and payment factors in the delivery of home health care services... - Medicare Part D and nursing home residentsDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1115-25. 2007..Finally, it is unclear how well nursing homes and the pharmacies they work with will work across Part D plans, and vigilance will be required as the benefit proceeds... - Quality of care in a Medicaid population with bipolar I disorderAlisa B Busch
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Program, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:848-54. 2007..This study examined whether presenting diagnosis and treatment in intensive settings (hospitalization, partial hospitalization, or residential programs) are correlated with the subsequent treatment of bipolar I disorder... - Medicare part D and the nursing home settingDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Gerontologist 48:432-41. 2008..The purpose of this article is to explore how the introduction of Medicare Part D is changing the operations of long-term-care pharmacies (LTCPs) and nursing homes, as well as implications of those changes for nursing home residents... - The impact of parity on major depression treatment quality in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program after parity implementationAlisa B Busch
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Program, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, USA
Med Care 44:506-12. 2006..Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent but often undetected and undertreated and thus could potentially benefit from parity implementation... - The influence of Medicare home health payment incentives: does payer source matter?David C Grabowski
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Inquiry 43:135-49. 2006..However, these changes did not translate into worse discharge outcomes... - Differences in hospice care between home and institutional settingsDavid G Stevenson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Palliat Med 10:1040-7. 2007..To compare hospice care delivered at home with hospice care delivered in institutional settings, such as the nursing home... - The effect of three-tier formulary adoption on medication continuation and spending among elderly retireesHaiden A Huskamp
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 42:1926-42. 2007..To assess the effect of three-tier formulary adoption on medication continuation and spending among elderly members of retiree health plans... - Physical and mental health status of older long-term cancer survivorsNancy L Keating
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:2145-52. 2005..To assess the physical and mental health status of older long-term cancer survivors... - Health care costs in the last week of life: associations with end-of-life conversationsBaohui Zhang
Center for Psycho Oncology and Palliative Care Research, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:480-8. 2009..Life-sustaining medical care of patients with advanced cancer at the end of life (EOL) is costly. Patient-physician discussions about EOL wishes are associated with lower rates of intensive interventions... - How the new medicare drug benefit could affect vulnerable populationsWalid F Gellad
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, MA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:248-55. 2006.... - Using performance data to identify preferred hospitalsMeredith B Rosenthal
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Room 405, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2109-19; discussion 2294-323. 2007..To explore the implications of current approaches used by health plans and purchasers to identify preferred hospitals for tiered networks using cost and quality information... - Cost-effectiveness analysis of short-term clopidogrel therapy for ST elevation myocardial infarctionKyle B Gibler
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Crit Pathw Cardiol 9:14-8. 2010..In conclusion, this analysis finds short-term clopidogrel therapy to be a highly economically attractive therapy, improving patient outcomes at no increase in costs... - Behavioral health insurance parity for federal employeesHoward H Goldman
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21227, USA
N Engl J Med 354:1378-86. 2006..The plans were encouraged to manage care... - Impact of full mental health and substance abuse parity for children in the Federal Employees Health Benefits ProgramSusan T Azrin
Westat, 1650 Research Blvd, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Pediatrics 119:e452-9. 2007..This study examined the effects of full mental health and substance abuse parity for children...
Research Grants
- Economics of Formulary Design and Mental Health PolicyHaiden Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2006..Huskamp the training, mentoring, time and resources to develop the skills that will put her in a position to lead independent research on the economics of pharmaceutical treatment for mental illnesses. ..
- Effects of Mental Parity on High-Cost and Severely-Ill IndividualsHaiden Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2009..We will estimate a combination of two-part random-effects models for longitudinal data, latent class random-effects models, logistic regression models, Poisson regression models, and hazard models to address these aims. ..
- Medicare Part D Plan Generosity & Dual-Eligible Nursing Home ResidentsHaiden Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Effects of Mental Parity on High-Cost and Severely-Ill IndividualsHaiden A Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2010..We will estimate a combination of two-part random-effects models for longitudinal data, latent class random-effects models, logistic regression models, Poisson regression models, and hazard models to address these aims. ..
- Medicare Part D Plan Generosity & Dual-Eligible Nursing Home ResidentsHaiden A Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- Effects of Mental Parity on High-Cost and Severely-Ill IndividualsHaiden A Huskamp; Fiscal Year: 2011..We will estimate a combination of two-part random-effects models for longitudinal data, latent class random-effects models, logistic regression models, Poisson regression models, and hazard models to address these aims. ..