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Trends in Medicaid physician fees, 2003-2008Stephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute s Health Policy Center, in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w510-9. 2009..The increase in Medicaid fees relative to Medicare fees resulted from relative increases for primary care and obstetrical services, but not for other services...
Reforming beneficiary cost sharing to improve Medicare performanceStephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 47:215-25. 2010..Our estimates also suggest that policies protecting these beneficiaries could be structured in a way that would add little to overall program costs...- Missouri's 2005 Medicaid cuts: how did they affect enrollees and providers?Stephen Zuckerman
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w335-45. 2009..Competing demands on state budgets and the need to balance budgets even during recessions could result in policies that disadvantage those with great needs as well as the providers who serve them... - Undocumented immigrants, left out of health reform, likely to continue to grow as share of the uninsuredStephen Zuckerman
Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1997-2004. 2011..As a result, members of this group will eventually constitute a larger percentage of the uninsured population, unless other policy actions are taken to provide for their coverage, or their immigration status is changed... - Medicare savings programs: analyzing options for expanding eligibilityStephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute, Washington DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 46:391-404. 2009.... - Clarifying sources of geographic differences in Medicare spendingStephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
N Engl J Med 363:54-62. 2010.... - Medicaid and SCHIP coverage: findings from California and North CarolinaGenevieve Kenney
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 29:71-85. 2007..Furthermore, this study emphasizes the need for continued evaluation of access to care for both programs... - Characteristics of occasional and frequent emergency department users: do insurance coverage and access to care matter?Stephen Zuckerman
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Med Care 42:176-82. 2004..The objective of this study was to explore how insurance coverage, access to care, and other individual characteristics are related to the large differences in emergency department (ED) use among the general population... - Substitution of SCHIP for private coverage: results from a 2002 evaluation in ten statesAnna Sommers
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:529-37. 2007..This suggests that relatively few SCHIP enrollees could have retained private coverage and that even fewer had parents who felt that the option was affordable... - Why is there state variation in employer-sponsored insurance?Yu Chu Shen
Urban Institute s Health Policy Center, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:241-51. 2003..Income plays a smaller role in explaining the state variation but is still an important determinant, especially among states whose average income is far from the national average... 
Assessing the value of the NHIS for studying changes in state coverage policies: the case of New YorkSharon K Long
The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2332-53. 2007....- Are adults benefiting from state coverage expansions?Sharon K Long
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w1-14. 2006..Because constraints on state resources are putting pressure on expansion efforts, we find evidence that cutbacks will place more adults at risk of being uninsured... - Has Medicaid managed care affected beneficiary access and use?Stephen Zuckerman
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 39:221-42. 2002..With the exception of mandatory HMO programs, discrepancies in access and use continue to exist between Medicaid managed care enrollees and low-income privately insured people... - MassHealth succeeds in expanding coverage for adultsSharon K Long
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, 2100 M St, N W, Washington DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 41:268-79. 2004..Understanding the impacts of the expansion efforts in Massachusetts adds to the base of knowledge that will be critical for guiding states when the economy recovers and the resources needed for expansion again become available... - Toward universal coverage in MassachusettsLinda J Blumberg
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Inquiry 43:102-21. 2006..The development of these alternatives and their analyses contributed to the eventual health care compromise that emerged in Massachusetts in April 2006... - Use of physicians' services under Medicare's resource-based paymentsStephanie Maxwell
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
N Engl J Med 356:1853-61. 2007..We conducted a study to determine how the use of physicians' services changed during the first decade after the implementation of this scale... - Health service access, use, and insurance coverage among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Whites: what role does the Indian Health Service play?Stephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute, Health Policy Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Am J Public Health 94:53-9. 2004..We compared access and utilization of health services among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIANs) with that among non-Hispanic Whites... - A house is not a home: keeping patients at the center of practice redesignRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1219-30. 2008..As the medical home concept is further developed, it will be important to not overemphasize redesign of practices at the expense of patient-centered care, which is the hallmark of excellent primary care... - State responses to new flexibility in medicaidTeresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Milbank Q 86:209-40. 2008..The Bush administration and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 have put in place policies to make it easier to grant states this flexibility... - Impact of resource-based practice expenses on the Medicare physician volumeStephanie Maxwell
Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 29:65-79. 2007..Service quantity and mix remained the largest source of growth in total RVU volume... - Restoring fiscal integrity to medicaid financing?Teresa A Coughlin
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:1469-80. 2007..Although the federal government has made some headway in reforming state Medicaid financing, our findings suggest that more work remains... - National estimates of the effects of mandatory Medicaid managed care programs on health care access and use, 1997-1999Bowen Garrett
Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Med Care 43:649-57. 2005..We sought to explore how mandatory Medicaid managed care programs affect access to care and use among full-year Medicaid beneficiaries not receiving SSI or Medicare... - Physician-owned specialty hospitals: a market signal for Medicare payment revisionsJack Hadley
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..If squeezing out excess profits threatens general hospitals' social missions, then new and explicit ways of identifying and funding social missions must be found... - Three years of state fiscal struggles: how did Medicaid and SCHIP fare?Teresa A Coughlin
Health Policy Center Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2005..The arrival of federal fiscal relief in late 2003 helped states avoid deeper cuts but did not eliminate cutbacks... - Changes in medicaid physician fees, 1998-2003: implications for physician participationStephen Zuckerman
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2004..However, large fee increases were associated with primary care physicians' greater willingness to accept new Medicaid patients... - A decade of health care access declines for adults holds implications for changes in the Affordable Care ActGenevieve M Kenney
Urban Institute Health Policy Center, Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:899-908. 2012....