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Impact of early newborn discharge legislation and early follow-up visits on infant outcomes in a state Medicaid populationEllen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 5899, USA
Pediatrics 113:1619-27. 2004..The objective of this study was to determine the impact of 1) legislation mandating coverage of minimum postnatal hospital stays and 2) early follow-up visits by the age of 4 days on infant outcomes during the first month of life...
The relationship between substance use patterns and economic and health outcomes among low-income caregivers and childrenEllen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:974-81. 2008..This study estimated how patterns of substance use are related to work status, public program use, and well-being among a sample of female caregivers and children...- Welfare reform, employment, and drug and alcohol use among low-income womenEllen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 14:223-32. 2006.... - Spending on substance abuse treatment: how much is enough?Ellen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Addiction 100:1240-8. 2005..To describe a framework that can be used to determine optimal spending on substance abuse treatment in the United States... - The effect of managed care market share on appropriate use of coronary angiography among traditional Medicare beneficiariesEllen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Inquiry 41:144-58. 2004..Within all ACC-AHA classes, coronary angiography fell slightly as managed care market share increased... - The gap gets bigger: changes in mortality and life expectancy, by education, 1981-2000ELLEN R MEARA
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:350-60. 2008..Differential trends in smoking-related diseases explain at least 20 percent of this trend... - Trends in medical spending by age, 1963-2000Ellen Meara
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:176-83. 2004..Prescription drug spending growth accelerated throughout the time period; it grew fastest among the nonelderly, for whom prescription drug insurance coverage is most extensive... - Use of health services by previously uninsured Medicare beneficiariesJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 357:143-53. 2007..Previously uninsured adults who enroll in the Medicare program at the age of 65 years may have greater morbidity, requiring more intensive and costlier care over subsequent years, than they would if they had been previously insured... 
Is spending more always wasteful? The appropriateness of care and outcomes among colorectal cancer patientsMary Beth Landrum
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:159-68. 2008..Our results show that instead of cutting spending, policies designed to target services to patients most likely to benefit could increase the value of medical spending...- Health of previously uninsured adults after acquiring Medicare coverageJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 298:2886-94. 2007..However, the health benefits of providing insurance coverage for uninsured adults have not been clearly demonstrated... - 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... - The effect of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement on prenatal smokingDouglas E Levy
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Health Econ 25:276-94. 2006..Overall, adjusting for secular trends in smoking, prenatal smoking declined by less than half what was predicted in response to the MSA... - Do increases in the market share of managed care influence quality of cancer care in the fee-for-service sector?Nancy L Keating
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:257-64. 2005.... - Health insurance coverage and mortality among the near-elderlyJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:223-33. 2004..Expanding coverage to the near-elderly uninsured may greatly improve health outcomes for these groups... - Differences in control of cardiovascular disease and diabetes by race, ethnicity, and education: U.S. trends from 1999 to 2006 and effects of medicare coverageJ Michael McWilliams
Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 150:505-15. 2009..Efforts to improve the care of cardiovascular disease and diabetes or expand insurance coverage for adults with these conditions may reduce differences in clinical outcomes... - Medicare spending for previously uninsured adultsJ Michael McWilliams
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:757-66. 2009..Medicare spending after age 65 years may be higher for previously uninsured adults if suboptimal care before this age leads to irreversible complications, persistently elevated clinical risks, or delay of costly elective procedures... - Managed care market share and primary treatment for cancerNancy L Keating
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 41:9-22. 2006..30). CONCLUSIONS: Increases in the market share of managed care do not appear to influence the receipt of equally effective primary treatments for cancer in the fee-for-service sector... - Health and economic impact of surgical site infections diagnosed after hospital dischargeEli N Perencevich
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:196-203. 2003..Average total costs during the 8 weeks after discharge were US dollars 5,155 for patients with SSI and US dollars 1,773 for controls (p<0.001)... - Correlates of therapy use and expenditures in children in the United StatesKaren Kuhlthau
Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Mass General Hospital for Children, Massachusetts Genaral Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Dev Neurorehabil 11:115-23. 2008..This paper describes correlates of use and expenditures for therapies (physical, occupational, speech or home health services) among children in the US... - Impact of Medicare coverage on basic clinical services for previously uninsured adultsJ Michael McWilliams
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 290:757-64. 2003..An affordable option through which near-elderly uninsured adults could purchase Medicare coverage might have similar effects...
Research Grants
- RACIAL DISPARITIES AND MEDICARE PREVENTIVE SERVICESEllen Meara; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Social Programs, Employment, and AddictionEllen Meara; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Parity, child mental health, and substance abuseEllen Meara; Fiscal Year: 2009..abstract_text> ..