This article found existing rigorous research indicates that home visiting programs serving at-risk pregnant women and children from birth to age 5 have the potential for positive results on these families, particularly on health care usage and child development.

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...

Dosage, or the amount of intervention delivered, is an important factor in understanding implementation. This brief for researchers and practitioners aims to help establish a common language for communication of findings.

This study examines the geographic distribution and county characteristics of nurse practitioners (NPs) billing Medicare, compares the types and quantities of primary care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries by NPs and primary care physicians, and analyzes the characteristics of...

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...