Issue Briefs

ssue Briefs are designed to provide readers with relatively short, analytical research results that are policy relevant. Issue Briefs include the broader context for the research and lay out the range of related policy implications. The publications offer original HSC research results, summarize and make more accessible HSC research results that appear in peer-reviewed journals or report HSC conference proceedings. Most of the Issue Briefs are based on data from the CTS household, physician and employer surveys, CTS Site Visits or the Health Tracking Household and Physician Surveys.

Title	Date	Document Info
Impact of Health Care Price Transparency on Price Variation: The New Hampshire Experience	November 2009	Issue Brief No. 128
Expectations Outpace Reality: Physicians' Use of Care Management Tools for Patients with Chronic Conditions	December 2009	Issue Brief No. 129
Managed Care Woes:	May 1998	Issue Brief No. 13
Modest and Uneven: Physician Efforts to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities	February 2010	Issue Brief No. 130
Electronic Medical Records and Communication with Patients and Other Clinicians: Are We Talking Less?	April 2010	Issue Brief No. 131
Innovations in Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions: What's Working in the Real World?	June 2010	Issue Brief No. 132
Even When Physicians Adopt E-Prescribing, Use of Advanced Features Lags	July 2010	Issue Brief No. 133
Physicians Slow to E-mail Routinely with Patients	October 2010	Issue Brief No. 134
Key Findings from HSC's 2010 Site Visits	May 2011	Issue Brief No. 135
Rising Hospital Employment of Physicians: Better Quality, Higher Costs?	August 2011	Issue Brief No. 136
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Down but Not Out	October 2011	Issue Brief No. 137
Small Employers and Self-Insured Health Benefits: Too Small to Succeed?	July 2012	Issue Brief No. 138
CHIPing Away at the Problem of Uninsured Children	August 1998	Issue Brief No. 14
The Uninsured Getting Care:	September 1998	Issue Brief No. 15
Public Health Departments Adapt to Medicaid Managed Care	November 1998	Issue Brief No. 16
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	December 1998	Issue Brief No. 17
An Update on the Community Tracking Study:	February 1999	Issue Brief No. 18
Managed Care Cost Pressures Threaten Access for the Uninsured	March 1999	Issue Brief No. 19
How Physician Organizations Are Responding to Managed Care	May 1999	Issue Brief No. 20
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	September 1999	Issue Brief No. 21
Who Declines Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Is Uninsured?	October 1999	Issue Brief No. 22
Tracking Health Care Costs:	November 1999	Issue Brief No. 23
The Scope of Care Expected of Primary Care Physicians:	December 1999	Issue Brief No. 24
Local Innovations Provide Managed Care for the Uninsured	January 2000	Issue Brief No. 25
Insolvency and Challenges of Regulating Providers that Bear Risk	February 2000	Issue Brief No. 26
Who Has a Choice of Health Plans?	February 2000	Issue Brief No. 27
Do HMOs Make a Difference?	March 2000	Issue Brief No. 28
Recent Trends in Children's Health Insurance	April 2000	Issue Brief No. 29
Health Care Perceptions and Experiences	September 2000	Issue Brief No. 30
Wall Street Comes to Washington:	September 2000	Issue Brief No. 31
Are Defined Contributions a New Direction for Employer-Sponsored Coverage?	October 2000	Issue Brief No. 32
At the Brink:	December 2000	Issue Brief No. 33
Race, Ethnicity and Preventive Services:	January 2001	Issue Brief No. 34
Back To The Future? New Cost and Access Challenges Emerge	February 2001	Issue Brief No. 35
Tax Credits and Purchasing Pools: Will This Marriage Work?	April 2001	Issue Brief No. 36
Defined Contributions: The Search for a New Vision	April 2001	Issue Brief No. 37
Emergency Room Diversions: A Symptom of Hospitals Under Stress	May 2001	Issue Brief No. 38
Provider Network Instability: Implications for Choice, Costs and Continuity of Care	June 2001	Issue Brief No. 39
Health Plan-Provider Showdowns on the Rise	June 2001	Issue Brief No. 40
Stand-Alone Health Insurance Tax Credits Aren't Enough	July 2001	Issue Brief No. 41