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Reports on the results of a national demonstration that tested whether paying home health agencies a fixed sum in advance for an episode of care would reduce use of services without adversely affecting quality of care. Finds that most prospectively paid agencies dramatically lowered their visits...

Analyzes the effect of shrinking managed care benefits on enrollees by examining trends in estimated out-of-pocket costs. Those in poor health not only paid more than those in good health; they also experienced the highest growth in out-of-pocket costs—62 percent—in the three-year...

Welfare reform in Iowa succeeded in getting welfare recipients into training and then into jobs. However, the reforms did not always succeed in raising family income and may have reduced it for some families. Furthermore, researchers noted negative impacts on some measures of family and child...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1998-1999 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 52 percent of participants continued from a...

Presents information, collected by telephone between December 2000 and July 2001, on SCHIP and Medicaid eligibility and enrollment data systems in 23 states. State profiles provide useful background information for researchers who would like to use the data to study the SCHIP and Medicaid...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including grantees and participants, services provided, and performance objectives and outcomes, using data from 1998-1999, 1997-1998, and 1996-1997. The data, submitted by almost all funded projects, represent over 9,000 participants. Notes that...