Testimony for the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Health Subcommittee.

As part of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, Congress asked the Social Security Administration to conduct the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). BOND tests alternative Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) work rules that increase the incentive for...

This "methods to policy" piece outlines the evolution of comparative effectiveness research to patient-centered outcomes research in U.S. policy circles. It also addresses the real-world implications of this work for health care researchers, patients, providers, and other stakeholders.

This issue brief evaluates the effects of a permanent 10 percent increase in Medicare fees for primary care ambulatory visits on Medicare costs. Using a simulation model with real-world parameters, the study found that, in spite of raising the overall cost of primary care visits, such a fee...

This brief, developed by staff at Mathematica and the Kaiser Family Foundation, looks at efforts by a number of states to set up accountable care organizations (ACOs) within their Medicaid programs. The analysis reveals that many initiatives are in a very early stage of development. Medicaid's...