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Educational disparities in health behaviors among patients with diabetes: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) StudyAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 7:308. 2007..Our understanding of social disparities in diabetes-related health behaviors is incomplete. The purpose of this study was to determine if having less education is associated with poorer diabetes-related health behaviors...- Performance of statistical models to predict mental health and substance abuse costMaria Montez-Rath
Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 6:53. 2006..We examine the predictive ability of several statistical models, demonstrate how model choice depends on the goal for the predictive model, and examine whether building models on samples of the data affects model choice... - Patient-provider communication regarding drug costs in Medicare Part D beneficiaries with diabetes: a TRIAD StudyJulie A Schmittdiel
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 10:164. 2010.... 
Risk adjustment of capitation payments to behavioral health care carve-outs: how well do existing methodologies account for psychiatric disability?S L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine 90095, USA
Health Care Manag Sci 3:159-69. 2000....- Do adjusted clinical groups eliminate incentives for HMOs to avoid substance abusers? Evidence from the Maryland Medicaid HealthChoice programSusan L Ettner
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 30:63-77. 2003..Thus, the adjusted clinical groups methodology used to adjust capitation payments in the HealthChoice program attenuated, but did not eliminate, financial incentives for MCOs to avoid substance abusers... - How did the introduction of managed care for the uninsured in Iowa affect the use of substance abuse services?Susan L Ettner
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 30:26-40. 2003..Without knowing the impact on treatment outcomes, these changes cannot be interpreted as improved provider efficiency versus simply cost containment and profit maximization... - Entering and exiting the Medicare part D coverage gap: role of comorbidities and demographicsSusan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:568-74. 2010..Some Medicare Part D enrollees whose drug expenditures exceed a threshold enter a coverage gap with full cost-sharing, increasing their risk for reduced adherence and adverse outcomes... - Investing time in health: do socioeconomically disadvantaged patients spend more or less extra time on diabetes self-care?Susan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Health Econ 18:645-63. 2009..Research on self-care for chronic disease has not examined time requirements. Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a multi-site study of managed care patients with diabetes, is among the first to assess self-care time... 
Triply-diagnosed patients in the HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes and Cost Study: patterns of home care useSusan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AIDS Care 20:1177-89. 2008..Further research is needed to explore possible implications for access among this vulnerable subpopulation...- An alternative approach to reducing the costs of patient care? A controlled trial of the multi-disciplinary doctor-nurse practitioner (MDNP) modelSusan L Ettner
School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA School of Medicine, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Med Decis Making 26:9-17. 2006..The authors examined the net cost savings associated with care management by teams of physicians and nurse practitioners, along with daily multidisciplinary rounds and postdischarge patient follow-up... - The impact of managed care on the substance abuse treatment patterns and outcomes of Medicaid beneficiaries: Maryland's HealthChoice programSusan L Ettner
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 30:41-62. 2003..Thus, the study disclosed no empirical evidence that health plans respond to capitation by reducing SA services... - Socioeconomic status and health among Californians: an examination of multiple pathwaysSusan L Ettner
University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
Am J Public Health 93:441-4. 2003 - Workers' perceptions of how jobs affect health: a social ecological perspectiveS L Ettner
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, School of Medicine, and Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, 911 Broxton Plaza, Box 103, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Occup Health Psychol 6:101-13. 2001..These findings suggest that malleable features of the work environment are associated with perceived effects of work on health, even after controlling for personality traits and other sources of reporting bias... - The setting of psychiatric care for medicare recipients in general hospitals with specialty unitsS L Ettner
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 1736, USA
Psychiatr Serv 52:237-9. 2001..Those who were older, admitted through the emergency department, or had greater medical morbidity or primary diagnoses other than schizophrenia or bipolar or major affective disorders were less likely to be treated on the unit... - The role of profit status under imperfect information: evidence from the treatment patterns of elderly medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for psychiatric diagnosesS L Ettner
UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 911 Broxton Plaza, Box 951736, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Health Econ 20:23-49. 2001..These findings fail to support concerns that FP growth leads to declining access and quality or contentions that NFPs are less efficient... - Impact of expanding SSI on Medicaid expenditures of disabled childrenS L Ettner
UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 21:185-201. 2000..g., in access). Results showed declines in average expenditures in Georgia and Tennessee but increases in California and Michigan, which are thought to have started with more liberal eligibility policies... - Drug benefit changes under Medicare Advantage Part D: heterogeneous effects on pharmaceutical use and expendituresSusan L Ettner
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:1195-200. 2011..Although Medicare Part D improved drug benefits for many beneficiaries, its impact on the coverage of Medicare Advantage Part D (MAPD) enrollees depended on their pre-existing benefits and whether they had gap coverage under Part D... - Association of general medical and psychiatric comorbidities with receipt of guideline-concordant care for depressionSusan L Ettner
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:1255-9. 2010..This study described the association of general medical and psychiatric comorbidities with receipt of guideline-concordant depression care... - Risk adjustment alternatives in paying for behavioral health care under MedicaidS L Ettner
UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Health Serv Res 36:793-811. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: Current risk adjustment methodologies do not eliminate the financial incentives for integrated health plans and behavioral health care carve-out plans to avoid high-utilizing patients with psychiatric disorders... - Quality of care for childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a managed care medicaid programBonnie T Zima
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA Center for Health Services and Society, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:1225-37, 1237.e1-11. 2010.... - Five-year impact of quality improvement for depression: results of a group-level randomized controlled trialKenneth Wells
Health Program, RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:378-86. 2004..Quality improvement (QI) programs for depressed primary care patients can improve health outcomes for 6 to 28 months; effects for longer than 28 months are unknown... - Information superhighway or billboards by the roadside? An analysis of hospital web sitesD S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research 911 Broxton Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
West J Med 175:385-91; discussion 391. 2001..To determine the prevalence of hospital web sites, the types of information provided within these sites, and the relationship of information to institutional characteristics... - Evaluation of the diabetes health plan to improve diabetes care and preventionO Kenrik Duru
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 10940 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 700, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 10:E16. 2013..Other factors studied will be cardiovascular risk factor control, adherence to preventive services, health care use, and costs of care among patients with existing diabetes... - Association of perceived neighborhood safety with [corrected] body mass indexJason S Fish
University of California, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2296-303. 2010..We sought to determine whether there is an association between perceived neighborhood safety and body mass index (BMI), accounting for endogeneity... - Impact of the Medicare Short Stay Transfer Policy on patients undergoing major orthopedic surgeryJohn D FitzGerald
Rehabilitation Center, School of Medicine, University of California, Room 32 59, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
Health Serv Res 42:25-44. 2007..To examine the impact of the Short Stay Transfer Policy (SSTP) on practice patterns... - The contribution of specific causes of death to sex differences in mortalityMitchell D Wong
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 911 Broxton Ave, Ste 101, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Public Health Rep 121:746-54. 2006..Men have higher mortality rates than women for most causes of death. This study was conducted to determine the contribution of specific causes of death to the sex difference in years of potential life lost (YPLL)... - The impact of managed care on access to highly active antiretroviral therapy and on outcomes among Medicaid beneficiaries with AIDSDavid S Zingmond
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:66-82. 2007..Before making changes to care delivery, policy makers should address the potential costs and benefits of MCP over FFS Medicaid for chronically ill beneficiaries... - Methods for improving regression analysis for skewed continuous or counted responsesAbdelmonem A Afifi
School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 28:95-111. 2007..Recent advances in computing and software development have produced user-friendly computer programs that enable the data analyst to improve prediction and inference based on regression analysis... - Disparities in the utilization of high-volume hospitals for complex surgeryJerome H Liu
Center for Surgical Outcomes and Quality, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
JAMA 296:1973-80. 2006..These differences may limit their ability to access or receive care at a high-volume hospital... - Educational disparities in rates of smoking among diabetic adults: the translating research into action for diabetes studyAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif, and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Am J Public Health 98:365-70. 2008..We assessed educational disparities in smoking rates among adults with diabetes in managed care settings... - Effect of cost-sharing changes on self-monitoring of blood glucoseAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:408-16. 2007..To study the effect of cost-sharing policy changes on utilization of test strips for self-monitoring of blood glucose... - Patient, physician, pharmacy, and pharmacy benefit design factors related to generic medication useWilliam H Shrank
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont St, Suite 3030, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1298-304. 2007..Increased use of generic medications conserves insurer and patient financial resources and may increase patient adherence... - Perception of neighborhood problems, health behaviors, and diabetes outcomes among adults with diabetes in managed care: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) studyTiffany L Gary
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Diabetes Care 31:273-8. 2008..Recent data suggest that residential environment may influence health behaviors and outcomes. We assessed whether perception of neighborhood problems was associated with diabetes behaviors and outcomes... - Utilization of mental health and substance abuse care for people living with HIV/AIDS, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse disordersMarcia R Weaver
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:449-58. 2008.... - Use of VA and Medicare services by dually eligible veterans with psychiatric problemsKathleen Carey
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research and, Boston University School of Public Health, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1164-83. 2008.... - Economic benefits of intensive insulin therapy in critically Ill patients: the targeted insulin therapy to improve hospital outcomes (TRIUMPH) projectArchana R Sadhu
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Diabetes Care 31:1556-61. 2008..The purpose of this study was to analyze the economic outcomes of a clinical program implemented to achieve strict glycemic control with intensive insulin therapy in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)... - Cash and compassion: profit status and the delivery of hospice servicesKarl A Lorenz
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California, Los Angeles
J Palliat Med 5:507-14. 2002..Differences in patterns of nursing services among hospices were related to patient characteristics. The potential availability of complex palliative services did not differ by profit status... - Income and employment of people living with combined HIV/AIDS, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse disordersChristopher J Conover
Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Rubenstein Hall Room 126, Box 90253, 302 Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708 0253, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 9:71-86. 2006..This paper examines the labor market outcomes of HIV triply-diagnosed adults having a combination of HIV, mental illness and substance abuse problems... - Impact of changes in Medicare Home Health care reimbursement on month-to-month Home Health utilization between 1996 and 2001 for a national sample of patients undergoing orthopedic proceduresJohn D FitzGerald
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1670, USA
Med Care 44:870-8. 2006..Reimbursements were first significantly reduced under the Interim Payment System (IPS) and then relaxed slightly until implementation of the HH Prospective Payment System (PPS) on October 1, 2000... - Racial and ethnic disparities in access to physicians with HIV-related expertiseKevin C Heslin
Research Center in Minority Institutions, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Lynwood, CA 90262, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:283-9. 2005..Although it is known that racial/ethnic minorities generally have worse access to care than do whites, previous work has not examined disparities in the use of physicians with HIV-related expertise... - Socioeconomic position and health among persons with diabetes mellitus: a conceptual framework and review of the literatureArleen F Brown
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736, USA
Epidemiol Rev 26:63-77. 2004 - Impact of patient race on receiving head CT during blunt head injury evaluationStephen P Wall
UCLA Emergency Medicine Center, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:862-8. 2005..The objective of this study was to determine whether race/ethnicity predicts whether a patient receives computed tomography of the head (head CT) during evaluation of blunt head injury... - Do specialist self-referral insurance policies improve access to HIV-experienced physicians as a regular source of care?Kevin C Heslin
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, USA
Med Care Res Rev 62:583-600. 2005..Insurance policies allowing self-referral to specialists may result in HIV patients seeing physicians with clinical expertise relevant to HIV care... - Effect of physician reimbursement methodology on the rate and cost of cataract surgeryWilliam Shrank
Division of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 123:1733-8. 2005..Previous research evaluating the relationship between physician reimbursement incentives and cataract surgical rates has been limited by physician and patient selection bias... - Benefit-cost in the California treatment outcome project: does substance abuse treatment "pay for itself"?Susan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Health Serv Res 41:192-213. 2006..To examine costs and monetary benefits associated with substance abuse treatment... - Linking hospital discharge and death records--accuracy and sources of biasDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 911 Broxton Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:21-9. 2004..The aim of this study was to develop and apply an automated linkage algorithm to 10 years of California hospitalization discharge abstracts and death records (1990 to 1999), evaluate linkage accuracy, and identify sources of bias... - The effect of a multidisciplinary hospitalist/physician and advanced practice nurse collaboration on hospital costsMarie J Cowan
School of Nursing, Hospitalist Division, VA Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095 1702, USA
J Nurs Adm 36:79-85. 2006..To compare nurse practitioner/physician management of hospital care, multidisciplinary team-based planning, expedited discharge, and assessment after discharge to usual management... - Insurance coverage, medical conditions, and visits to alternative medicine providers: results of a national surveyPeter M Wolsko
Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education, Division of Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Libby 330, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:281-7. 2002..In 1997, patients made an estimated 629 million visits to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers; however, little is known about factors associated with visits to CAM providers... - Health-related quality of life and patient reports about care outcomes in a multidisciplinary hospital interventionRon D Hays
Los Angeles Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, 90095 1736, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:173-8. 2006..Patient perceptions of care and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are important outcomes for hospitalized patients... - Differences in cause-specific mortality between Latino and white adultsMitchell D Wong
UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 43:1058-62. 2005..Understanding differences in cause-specific mortality between Latinos and whites is important for targeting future public health interventions and research aimed at eliminating health disparities... - Charity for the dying: who receives unreimbursed hospice care?Karl A Lorenz
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Veterans Integrated Palliative Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, Code 111 G, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Palliat Med 6:585-91. 2003..Many deaths occur among persons without insurance coverage for hospice care. We examined the patient and agency characteristics associated with receiving unreimbursed hospice care in a national survey... - Contribution of major diseases to disparities in mortalityMitchell D Wong
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles 90095 1736, USA
N Engl J Med 347:1585-92. 2002..Mortality from all causes is higher for persons with fewer years of education and for blacks, but it is unknown which diseases contribute most to these disparities... - Are physician reimbursement strategies associated with processes of care and patient satisfaction for patients with diabetes in managed care?Susan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, 911 Broxton Plaza, Room 106, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1221-41. 2006..To examine associations between physician reimbursement incentives and diabetes care processes and explore potential confounding with physician organizational model... - Socioeconomic status and health: a micro-level analysis of exposure and vulnerability to daily stressorsJoseph G Grzywacz
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084. USA
J Health Soc Behav 45:1-16. 2004..Finally, neither exposure nor vulnerability explained socioeconomic differentials in daily health, but the results clearly indicate that the stressor-health association cannot be considered independent of socioeconomic status... - Hospice admission practices: where does hospice fit in the continuum of care?Karl A Lorenz
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:725-30. 2004..To evaluate selected hospice admission practices that could represent barriers to hospice use and the association between these admission practices and organizational characteristics... - Risk adjustment for people with chronic conditions in private sector health plansTami L Mark
The MEDSTAT Group, Inc, Washington, DC, USA
Med Decis Making 23:397-405. 2003..CONCLUSION: The leading risk adjustment approaches substantially reduce the incentives for adverse selection but do not eliminate them... - Accommodating ethnic diversity: a study of California hospice programsKarl A Lorenz
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90073, USA
Med Care 42:871-4. 2004..Studies have confirmed ethnic disparities in the use of hospice services and identified barriers that minorities face in accessing care... - Prescription drug coverage and effects on drug expenditures among elderly Medicare beneficiariesSoonim Huh
Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, San 42 14, Bulgwang dong, Eunpyeong gu, Seoul 122 705 Korea
Health Serv Res 43:810-32. 2008..To identify determinants of drug coverage among elderly Medicare beneficiaries and to investigate the impact of drug coverage on drug expenditures with and without taking selection bias into account... - Drinkers and bettors: investigating the complementarity of alcohol consumption and problem gamblingMichael T French
University of Miami, Department of Sociology, 5202 University Drive, Merrick Building, Room 121F, PO Box 248162, Coral Gables, FL 33124 2030, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 96:155-64. 2008..After addressing the endogeneity of alcohol use when appropriate, we find strong evidence that problematic gambling and alcohol consumption are complementary activities... - Longitudinal study of new and prevalent use of self-monitoring of blood glucoseAndrew J Karter
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1757-63. 2006..We sought to assess longitudinal association between self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) and glycemic control in diabetic patients from an integrated health plan (Kaiser Permanente Northern California)... - The effect of pharmacy benefit design on patient-physician communication about costsWilliam H Shrank
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:334-9. 2006..The impact of financial incentives on patient awareness of and communication about those costs is unknown... - Does treatment 'pay for itself'? Looking at the economic argument for addiction treatmentSusan L Ettner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
Behav Healthc 26:32-4. 2006 - Physician compensation from salary and quality of diabetes careCatherine Kim
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:448-52. 2007..To examine the association between physician-reported percent of total compensation from salary and quality of diabetes care... - The implications of choice: prescribing generic or preferred pharmaceuticals improves medication adherence for chronic conditionsWilliam H Shrank
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:332-7. 2006..We studied whether patients enrolled in such plans who receive generic or preferred brand-name agents when initiating chronic therapy were more adherent to treatment than those who received nonpreferred brand-name medications... - Physicians' perceptions of relevant prescription drug costs: do costs to the individual patient or to the population matter most?William H Shrank
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont Street, Ste 3030, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Am J Manag Care 12:545-51. 2006..We evaluated physicians' perceptions about relevant costs for prescription drugs and the importance of communication about these costs... - Do the incentives in 3-tier pharmaceutical benefit plans operate as intended? Results from a physician leadership surveyWilliam H Shrank
Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, Calif 90073, USA
Am J Manag Care 11:16-22. 2005..Three-tier pharmaceutical benefit systems use graded co-payments to steer patients toward "preferred" formulary medications... - A bitter pill: formulary variability and the challenge to prescribing physiciansWilliam H Shrank
Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 17:401-7. 2004..However, the degree of formulary variability among and within health plans over time is unclear... - How does the persistence of depression influence the continuity and type of health insurance and coverage limits on mental health therapy?Anthony Masaquel
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 10:133-44. 2007..To determine the structural effect of the persistence of depression on continuity and type of health insurance and coverage limits on mental health therapy...
Research Grants
- Treatment Patterns, Expenditures and Outcomes in MBHOsSusan Ettner; Fiscal Year: 2005..e., how psychotherapy visits are associated with outcomes and expenditures. Selection models will be used to estimate this relationship for patients with and without drug use. ..
- Costs of Preventing Alcohol Problems in Older AdultsSusan Ettner; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Impact of the Medicare Part D Benzodiazepine Exclusion on Managed Care PatientsSusan Ettner; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our findings will inform the ongoing debate over amending Part D legislation to include BZD coverage by providing objective data to guide policymakers on the likely costs and benefits. ..