This issue brief finds that when episodes of care involving hospitalizations, similar to Model 2 of the ongoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Bundled Payment for Care Improvement demonstration, are applied to privately insured patients, inpatient prices drive the bulk of...

This issue brief summarizes findings from a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), on behalf of the National Institute for Health Care Reform, to evaluate how health care is organized, financed, and delivered in the Detroit metropolitan area.

A look at how health care is organized, financed, and delivered in 2010.

This issue brief summarizes findings from a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), on behalf of the National Institute for Health Care Reform, to evaluate how health care is organized, financed, and delivered in the Detroit metropolitan area.

In May 2010, a team of researchers from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), as part of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), visited the northern New Jersey metropolitan area to study how health care is organized, financed and delivered in that community.

A study examining the relationship between hospital characteristics and hospital prices can help inform the debate on controlling health care costs. Compared to other hospitals, high-price hospitals tend to be larger, be major teaching hospitals, belong to systems with large market shares,...

This issue brief finds that when episodes of care involving hospitalizations, similar to Model 2 of the ongoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Bundled Payment for Care Improvement demonstration, are applied to privately insured patients, inpatient prices drive the bulk of...