Health Care Markets

Ultimately, all health care is organized and delivered at ground level-in local communities-where HSC collects information about the changing health system. HSC research provides perspectives on the role of employers/consumers, health plans, hospitals and physicians in local health care markets.

Title	Date	Document Info
State Prescription Drug Price Web Sites: How Useful to Consumers?Ha T. Tu, Catherine Corey	February 2008	HSC Research Brief No. 1
Community Health Centers Tackle Rising Demands and ExpectationsRobert E. Hurley, Laurie E. Felland, Johanna Lauer	December 2007	Issue Brief No. 116
Hospital Emergency On-Call Coverage: Is There a Doctor in the House?Ann S. O'Malley, Debra A. Draper, Laurie E. Felland	November 2007	Issue Brief No. 115
Convergence and Dissonance: Evolution in Private-Sector Approaches to Disease Management and Care CoordinationGlen P. Mays, Melanie Au, Gary Claxton	November/December 2007	Journal Article Health Affairs
Unhealthy Trends: The Future of Physician ServicesHoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg	November/December 2007	Journal Article Health Affairs
Health Care Cost and Access Challenges PersistDebra A. Draper, Paul B. Ginsburg	October 2007	Issue Brief No. 114
Massachusetts Health Reform: Employers, Lower-Wage Workers and Universal CoverageLaurie E. Felland, Debra A. Draper, Allison Liebhaber	July 2007	Issue Brief No. 113
Exodus of Male Physicians from Primary Care Drives Shift to Specialty PracticeHa T. Tu, Ann S. O'Malley	June 2007	Tracking Report No. 17
HSC's 12th Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference	June 14, 2007	Conference Transcript
High-Performance Health Plan Networks: Early ExperiencesDebra A. Draper, Allison Liebhaber, Paul B. Ginsburg	May 2007	Issue Brief No. 111
Commercial Health Plans' Care Management Activities and the Impact on Costs, Quality and OutcomesDebra A. Draper	April 11, 2007	Congressional Testimony
Physician Consideration of Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs in Making Common Clinical DecisionsHoangmai H. Pham, G. Caleb Alexander, Ann S. O'Malley	April 9, 2007	Journal Article Archives of Internal Medicine
Insurance Premiums and Insurance Coverage of Near-Poor ChildrenJack Hadley, James D. Reschovsky, Peter J. Cunningham, Genevieve Kenney, Melanie Au	Winter 2006/2007	Journal Article Inquiry
Benefit Design Innovations: Implications for Consumer-Directed Health CareHa T. Tu, Paul B. Ginsburg	February 2007	Issue Brief No. 109
Hospital-Physician Relations: Cooperation, Competition or Separation?Robert A. Berenson, Paul B. Ginsburg, Jessica H. May	Dec. 5, 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
Analysis of Niche Hospitals in Texas and the Financial Impact on General HospitalsDeborah Chollet, Su Liu, Gilbert Gimm, Cheryl Fahlman, Laurie E. Felland, Anneliese M. Gerland, Michelle I. Banker, Allison Liebhaber	December 2006	Research Report
A Report on Medical Specialty Centers in WyomingCheryl Fahlman, Laurie E. Felland, Michelle I. Banker, Allison Liebhaber, Deborah Chollet, Gilbert Gimm	November 2006	Research Report
Health Plan Pay-for-Performance StrategiesSally Trude, Melanie Au, Jon B. Christianson	September 2006	Journal Article The American Journal of Managed Care
Specialty-Service Lines: Salvos in the New Medical Arms RaceRobert A. Berenson, Thomas Bodenheimer, Hoangmai H. Pham	July 25, 2006	Journal Article Health Affairs
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