JasonShafrin

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Health Reform Increases State Medicaid Cost

Health Reform will of course increase Medicaid spending as more people become…

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Medicaid P4P

As part of health reform, Medicare is looking to institute value-based purchasing…

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Physician Integrity

Doctors have been giving out sick notes for teachers protesting Wisconsin’s threat…

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Largest One-YearJump in Health Spending

According to a recent Health Affairs paper, health care spending as a…

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An Oxygen Tax

The UK explored selling or leasing forest land to private interests, but…

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Estimating Lifetime or Episode-of-Illness Costs Under Censoring

How can you estimate an individual’s total lifetime cost of medical care?…

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Pay-for-Performance: An Overview

Pay-for-performance schemes have been attracting much attention of late. A RWJF policy…

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