Search Results - subject:"coverage"

The impact of health insurance mandates on drug innovation: evidence from the United States

Chun, Natalie; Park, Minjung - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 2, pp. 323-344

An important health policy issue is the low rate of patient enrollment into clinical trials, which may slow down the process of clinical trials and discourage their supply, leading to delays in innovative life-saving drug treatments reaching the general population. In the US, patients’ cost of...

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Quality and the 2010 Census

Hogan, Howard; Cantwell, Patrick; Devine, Jason; Mule, … - In: Population Research and Policy Review 32 (2013) 5, pp. 637-662

results from the 2010 Census, comparing them to earlier results. The paper discusses net coverage at the national and state …

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Sampling frame coverage and domain adjustment procedures for internet surveys

Aşan, Zerrin; Ayhan, H. - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 6, pp. 3031-3042

coverage as a basis for sample selection in internet surveys. The study aims to provide a methodology for domain weighting and …

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Transparency vs. closed-door policy: Do process characteristics have an impact on the outcomes of coverage decisions? A statistical analysis

Fischer, Katharina E.; Rogowski, Wolf H.; Leidl, Reiner; … - In: Health Policy 112 (2013) 3, pp. 187-196

coverage decisions. Using survey data on 77 decisions from 13 countries, we examined whether outcomes differ by 14 variables … a technology, i.e. positive (including partial coverage) vs. negative coverage decisions. We performed non …

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How the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement could undermine PHARMAC and threaten access to affordable medicines and health equity in New Zealand

Gleeson, Deborah; Lopert, Ruth; Reid, Papaarangi - In: Health Policy 112 (2013) 3, pp. 227-233

” provisions that facilitate industry involvement in decision-making around coverage and pricing of medicines (and medical devices …

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Digesting the doughnut hole

Joyce, Geoffrey F.; Zissimopoulos, Julie; Goldman, Dana P. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1345-1355

Despite its success, Medicare Part D has been widely criticized for the gap in coverage, the so-called “doughnut hole …”. We compare the use of prescription drugs among beneficiaries subject to the coverage gap with usage among beneficiaries … who are not exposed to it. We find that the coverage gap does, indeed, disrupt the use of prescription drugs among seniors …

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Competition, regulation, and broadband access to the internet

Götz, Georg - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 11, pp. 1095-1109

This paper reexamines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the … analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and penetration. …

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Findings from HeA PA and Implications for ACA Implementation.

Foster, Leslie; Dunn, Adam; Colby, Maggie - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

California's Health-e-App Public Access (HeA PA) system enables low-income families to apply online for publicly funded children's health insurance. Findings from a study funded by the California Healthcare Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation have implications for Affordable...

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Can Administrative Records Be Used to Reduce Nonresponse Bias?

Czajka, John L. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

Administrative records can help address potential bias from survey nonresponse. This article cautions that administrative records may not cover the entire population of interest, may use a different unit of observation, may have wide variation in data quality across items or by agency, and may...

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Outreach to Low-Income Families During the First Year of HeA PA.

Colby, Maggie - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This is the third brief in a series about the first year of California’s Health-e-App Public Access (HeA PA) enrollment system, introduced in December 2010. Available in English and Spanish, HeA PA was a self-service online application for the Healthy Families Program and a screening tool for...

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