This study examined providers' efforts to improve care delivery, similar to those likely to be encouraged under ACOs. Common challenges for affiliated health care organizations’ efforts to improve care are establishing a business case for change and implementing changes with minimal disruption...

As part of the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation-funded Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey project, Mathematica updated a 2003 report containing resources to help Head Start programs for infants and toddlers develop a...

This report examines prices that private health plans paid for high-volume inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, and physician and other professional services, finding significant price variation for every service. For selected inpatient services with quality measures...

This study tracked all of Florida's 2000–2001 and 2001–2002 high school seniors and found that students who participated in dual enrollment classes on college campuses were 12 percent more likely to go to college and 7 percent more likely to earn a bachelor's degree than similar students who...

The Maximizing Enrollment program has worked with eight states to help them use Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment and retention data to monitor and improve performance in enrolling and retaining eligible individuals. This issue brief summarizes 12 core performance...

Most research on equal educational opportunity has focused on inputs like teacher experience and degrees. This brief estimated teachers’ value added (contribution to student achievement growth) and measured access to highest-performing teachers in high- and low-poverty schools. Across 10...