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Producing public reports of physician quality at the community level: the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative experienceJon B Christianson
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 18:s133-40. 2012..To describe the approaches used by the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) alliances in producing community-based reports of physician quality and to assess the contribution of these reports to existing physician performance information...
A report card on provider report cards: current status of the health care transparency movementJon B Christianson
Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 729, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:1235-41. 2010..Reporting of quality measures is supported by advocates of health care reform across the political spectrum...
The transition from managed care to consumerism: a community-level status reportJon B Christianson
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1362-70. 2008..However, developments in the CTS communities suggest that the consumerism strategy evolving in local markets is more nuanced than implied by some descriptions of health care consumerism...- Physician pay-for-performance. Implementation and research issuesJon B Christianson
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:S9-S13. 2006..The focus of most P4P initiatives on medical group performance raises additional questions about its potential effectiveness as a catalyst for change... - Deploying Six Sigma in a health care system as a work in progressJon B Christianson
Department of Healthcare Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:603-13. 2005..Health care organizations will need to find better ways to engage physicians, especially community physicians whose patients and clinical practices could be affected by Six Sigma projects... - Exporting the Buyers Health Care Action Group purchasing model: lessons from other communitiesJon B Christianson
Department of Healthcare Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Milbank Q 83:149-76. 2005..It also, once again, suggests caution in drawing lessons from community-level experiments in purchasing health care... - Consumer experiences in a consumer-driven health planJon B Christianson
Carlson School of Management, Department of Healthcare Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Avenue South, Suite 3-149, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1123-40. 2004..Research also is needed on the factors that affect consumer decisions to leave CDHPs... - Evaluation of the effect of a consumer-driven health plan on medical care expenditures and utilizationStephen T Parente
Carlson School of Management, Department of Healthcare Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Avenue South, Suite 3-149, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1189-210. 2004..Enrollees in the CDHP have lower total expenditures than PPO enrollees, but higher utilization of resource-intensive hospital admissions after an initially favorable selection... - Evaluating health plan quality 2: survey design principles for measuring health plan qualityDouglas R Wholey
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:SP65-75. 2003..To develop principles for measuring the quality of specific health plans from a physician's perspective... - Employee choice of consumer-driven health insurance in a multiplan, multiproduct settingStephen T Parente
Carlson School of Management, Department of Healthcare Management, University of Minnesota, 321 19th Avenue South, Suite 3-149, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Health Serv Res 39:1091-112. 2004..Low out-of-pocket premiums are important features of health plans and in this setting, low premiums appeal to those who are less healthy... - Evaluating health plan quality 3: survey measurement propertiesDouglas R Wholey
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:SP76-87. 2003..To assess the measurement and scaling properties of survey items designed to measure health plan quality from a physician's perspective... - What do physician recommendations of health plans mean?Douglas R Wholey
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:SP88-99. 2003..To examine what determines physician recommendations of health plans and whether their recommendations reflect experiences with specific plans... - Consumer-directed health plans: new evidence on spending and utilizationRoger Feldman
Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St, S E, Box 729, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0381, USA
Inquiry 44:26-40. 2007..Findings suggest the CDHP had too little out-of-pocket cost-sharing to control medical spending... - Health savings accounts: early estimates of national take-upRoger Feldman
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1582-91. 2005..We predict that the Bush administration's refundable tax-credit proposal would double HSA take-up and reduce the number of uninsured people by 2.9 million, at an annual cost of $8.1 billion... - Evaluating health plan quality 1: a conceptual modelDouglas R Wholey
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn 55455, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:SP53-64. 2003..To develop a theoretical foundation for measuring health plan quality from a physician's perspective... - Evolution in the Buyers Health Care Action Group purchasing initiativeJon B Christianson
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:76-88. 2002..It hopes that through this restructuring, Choice Plus will grow in the Twin Cities market and be adopted in other communities as well. The success of this new approach is by no means certain, as it faces a number of critical tests... - Managing costs, managing benefits: employer decisions in local health care marketsJon B Christianson
Department of Healthcare Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Health Serv Res 38:357-73. 2003.... - Evaluating pay-for-performance in medicaid through real-world observationJon B Christianson
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w528-31. 2007.... - Physicians' perceptions of managed care: a review of the literatureJon B Christianson
University of Minnesota, USA
Med Care Res Rev 62:635-75. 2005..The review concludes with suggestions for the conduct of future research on this topic... - The QUEST for quality: what are medical groups doing about it?Leif I Solberg
Care Improvement Research, HealthPartners Medical Group, Minneapolis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:211-9. 2005..It is important to know whether medical groups have quality improvement (QI) priorities, approaches, activities, and congruence that will allow them to achieve major improvements in quality of care... - Physician evaluations of care management practices in Medicaid programsGeorge H Avery
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Duluth 55812, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:156-64. 2005..To assess differences in care management practices for Medicaid beneficiaries in predominantly commercial and predominantly Medicaid health plans... - Community responses to national healthcare firmsDouglas R Wholey
Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0392, USA
J Health Soc Behav 45:118-35. 2004..The paper concludes with a research agenda that addresses issues raised by social network theory and its application to national firm entry into local markets... - Unintended consequences of implementing a national performance measurement system into local practiceAdam A Powell
Core Research Investigator, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research CCDOR, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, One Veterans Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:405-12. 2012..To optimize PM systems, a better understanding is needed of the types of negative unintended consequences that occur and of their causal antecedents... - Lessons from evaluations of purchaser pay-for-performance programs: a review of the evidenceJon B Christianson
University of Minnesota, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:5S-35S. 2008..However, the literature relating to purchaser pay-for-performance initiatives does underscore several important issues that deserve attention going forward that relate to the design and implementation of pay-for-performance initiatives... - Consumer-focused strategies of innovative hospitals: the role of complementary therapiesJon B Christianson
University of Minnesota, USA
Explore (NY) 3:158-60. 2007 - Chronic illness and patient satisfactionCaroline S Carlin
Medica Research Institute, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA
Health Serv Res 47:2250-72. 2012..To examine how the relationship between patient characteristics, patient experience with the health care system, and overall satisfaction with care varies with illness complexity... - How are health plans supporting physician practice? The physician perspectiveJon B Christianson
Department of Healthcare Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:181-9. 2003..However, our survey data indicate that these opportunities generally are not being fully exploited; also, efforts that plans do make to provide information to support care often are not seen as useful by physicians... - Defined-contribution health insurance products: development and prospectsJon B Christianson
Center for the Study of Healthcare Management, Department of Healthcare Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:49-64. 2002..The companies producing these products are now at a critical juncture. They could grow rapidly over the next few years, be acquired by existing health plans, or fail if they do not deliver on their promises... - Penetrating the "black box": financial incentives for enhancing the quality of physician servicesDouglas A Conrad
University of Washington, USA
Med Care Res Rev 61:37S-68S. 2004..The model is extended qualitatively to offer further hypotheses and research directions. Finally, gaps and limitations of the model and of the extant empirical research are articulated, and additional researchable questions are posed... - Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissionsDennis P Scanlon
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1849-68. 2008..To determine if a tiered hospital benefit and safety incentive shifted the distribution of admissions toward safer hospitals... - Physicians' reports of their experience with health plan care management practicesAndrew B Bindman
Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Calif 94110, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:SP100-10. 2003..The concordance between the types of available practices and physicians' ratings suggests that health plans and physicians agree about how to improve the quality of care... - Employer-sponsored health insurance: pressing problems, incremental changesSally Trude
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:66-75. 2002..While dramatic changes in health benefits are unlikely in the short term, policymakers may want to watch for future erosions in health coverage... - Consumer-directed health insurance products: local-market perspectivesLydia Regopoulos
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:766-73. 2006.... - Hospital responses to the leapfrog group in local marketsDennis P Scanlon
The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:207-31. 2008..However, characteristics of the individual hospitals, and of the LF goals themselves, were more important in explaining the relatively limited progress by hospitals across all sites in achieving those goals over a 5-year period... - Health plan pay-for-performance strategiesSally Trude
Center for Studying Health System Change, 4078 Slam Gate Road, Crozet, VA 22932, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:537-42. 2006..A national effort directed at standardization might significantly reduce the extent of customization but also may limit the opportunities for local collaboration with providers... - The role of public employers in a changing health care marketCarolyn Watts
University of Washington, Department of Health Services, Seattle, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:173-80. 2003..As insurance markets consolidate and premiums continue to increase, public employers face tough choices regarding employee benefits... - Association between interruptions in medicaid coverage and use of inpatient psychiatric servicesJeffrey S Harman
Department of Health Services Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:999-1005. 2003..This study sought to determine the impact of interruptions in Medicaid coverage on the use of Medicaid-reimbursed inpatient psychiatric services over a four-year period...