Insurance Coverage & Costs

HSC analyses focus on private and public insurance coverage, the uninsured and the cost of health care. HSC research provides insight into a range of topics, including how health care costs are changing, why the nation's number of uninsured continues to rise and how employer-sponsored coverage is changing.

Title	Date	Document Info
Understanding Differences Between High- and Low-Price Hospitals: Implications for Efforts to Rein In CostsChapin White, James D. Reschovsky, Amelia M. Bond	Jan. 29, 2014	Journal Article Health Affairs
Why Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Changed, 1997-2003James D. Reschovsky, Bradley C. Strunk, Paul B. Ginsburg	May/June 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
When Medicare Cuts Hospital Prices, Seniors Use Less Inpatient CareChapin White, Tracy Yee	October 2013	Journal Article Health Affairs
Tracking Health Care Costs: Growth Accelerates Again in 2001Bradley C. Strunk, Paul B. Ginsburg, Jon R. Gabel	Sept. 25, 2002	Journal Article Health Affairs
Public Employees' Health Benefits Survive Major Threats, So FarRobert E. Hurley, Laurie E. Felland, Anneliese M. Gerland, Jeremy D. Pickreign	April 18, 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
The Growing Financial Burden of Health Care: National and State Trends, 2001-2006Peter J. Cunningham	March 25, 2010	Journal Article Health Affairs
Ensuring Health Security: Is the Individual Market Ready for Prime Time?Karen Pollitz, Richard Sorian	Oct. 23, 2002	Journal Article Health Affairs,
The Nongroup Health Insurance Market: Short on Facts, Long on Opinions and Policy DisputesMark V. Pauly, Len M. Nichols	Oct. 23, 2002	Journal Article Health Affairs,
Follow the Money: Factors Associated with the Cost of Treating High-Cost Medicare BeneficiariesJames D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Cynthia B. Saiontz-Martinez, Ellyn R. Boukus	Feb. 11, 2011	Journal Article Health Services Research
How Do Hospitals Cope with Sustained Slow Growth in Medicare Prices?Chapin White, Vivian Yalin Wu	Oct. 1, 2013	Journal Article Health Services Research
Insurance Product Design and Its EffectsPeter Kemper, Ha T. Tu, James D. Reschovsky, Elizabeth Schaefer	Summer 2002	Journal Article Inquiry
Why Do Hispanics Have So Little Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?James D. Reschovsky, Jack Hadley, Len M. Nichols	Fall 2007	Journal Article Inquiry
Health and the Cost of Nongroup InsuranceJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	Fall 2003	Journal Article Inquiry
Small Firms' Demand for Health Insurance: The Decision to Offer InsuranceJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	Summer 2002	Journal Article Inquiry
Medicare Fees and Physicians' Medicare Service Volume: Beneficiaries Treated and Services per BeneficiaryJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	June 2006	Journal Article International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Worker Decisions to Purchase Health InsuranceLinda J. Blumberg, Len M. Nichols, Jessica S. Banthin	September 2001	Journal Article International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician PaymentPaul B. Ginsburg	Aug. 12, 2013	Journal Article JAMA Internal Medicine
Strategies to Enhance Price and Quality Competition in Health Care: Lessons Learned from Tracking Local MarketsCara S. Lesser, Paul B. Ginsburg	June 2006	Journal Article Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Prescription Drug Spending for Medicare+Choice Beneficiaries in the Last Year of LifeCheryl Fahlman, Joanne Lynn, Danielle Doberman, Jon R. Gabel, Mike Finch	August 2006	Journal Article Journal of Palliative Medicine
The Effects of SCHIP on Children's Health Insurance CoveragePeter J. Cunningham, Jack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky	December 2002	Journal Article Medical Care Research and Review