This article discusses an experiment embedded in the 2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services that tested whether prefilling some fields in the annual questionnaire would encourage continued facility participation. The option, offered to facilities that completed a web...

This REL Mid-Atlantic study looks at eight districts that have been using alternative measures for teacher evaluations or performance-related compensation systems.

This report provides the individual results for each curriculum from the evaluations.

This white paper describes how current financial incentives in the fee-for-service (FFS) system can lead to the over- and underuse of services at the point of care by physicians and other clinicians. It explores prominent payment reform models and concludes that no single approach consistently...

Cash and Counseling had sizable effects on the proportion of people receiving paid care in Arkansas and New Jersey. It also had sizable effects among the nonelderly—but not the elderly—in Florida, where a higher percentage of enrollees were already receiving this type of care...

The Medicare Critical Access Hospital (CAH) program has improved the financial viability of small rural hospitals and enhanced access to care in rural communities, but it puts beneficiaries at risk for paying a larger share of the cost of services covered under the Medicare Part B benefit. This...

This report, prepared for CMS, is the last in a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 35 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...