This study is among the first of its kind to find empirical support for the anticipated benefit of health information exchange (HIE) to lower health care costs by reducing repeat medical tests. It found that HIE, in which patients' clinical data follow them across care delivery settings, is...

This brief examines the practical coverage continuity issues raised by determining Medicaid eligibility on a monthly basis while determining subsidy eligibility on an annual basis.

Posting a report on the web or sending out a press release used to be all that was needed to help get the word out about one's research findings. But times have changed. Today, effective dissemination depends on getting the right message to the right people at the right time in the right form....

Secondary math teachers from Teach For America are more effective than other math teachers in the same schools; secondary math teachers from Teaching Fellows programs are as effective as, and in some cases more effective than, other math teachers in the same schools.

This article dvelops a framework for understanding how financial and nonfinancial incentives can complicate point-of-care decision making by physicians, leading to the over- or under-use of health care services. The analysis highlights contributing factors that promote and impede evidence-based...

To prevent closings of critical access hospitals (CAHs), or rural hospitals, Congress authorized cost-based rather than prospective payments. This commentary responds to research suggesting that when CAHs join integrated systems, the relative portion of a system's costs of shared services...

This issue brief focuses on Colorado's Medicaid reform initiative, the Accountable Care Collaborative, and one of its three core components, the Statewide Data Analytics Contractor. This component supports primary care providers networked to seven regional care collaboratives and provides data...