Analysis of the first year of implementation found that Enroll America successfully met its stated goals.

Disease management programs seek to control health care costs by focusing on two major drivers: high-cost chronic illness and inpatient hospitalizations for acute conditions. The fourth brief in a new series from Mathematica looks at the research evidence on the effectiveness of disease...

This report estimates the effects of reimbursement strategies and provider-level interventions to reduce hospital readmissions. Several quality-improvement interventions have proved effective in reducing readmission rates, but relatively few hospitals have adopted these programs, in large part...

Responsibility for drug coverage for over six million Medicare-Medicaid “dual eligibles†shifts from Medicaid to Medicare in January 2006 under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. This issue brief summarizes new state-by-state data and a chartbook on Medicaid prescription drug use...

This chartbook, prepared for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, presents highlights and key comparisons from the state-by-state and national tables in the statistical compendium on Medicaid pharmacy benefit use and reimbursement in 2007.

Notes that chronically ill people who are uninsured have higher out-of-pocket medical spending and are five times less likely to see a physician than their insured counterparts.

This paper examines the charter school authorizing process using student-level data from Ohio, a state with a range of public and private authorizers. The study found charters authorized by nonprofits are less effective in promoting student achievement than other charter schools (though there...

This article, the sixth in a series of monographs for the journal on research design and analysis, discusses statistical concepts related to the measurement of nutrition-related characteristics and outcomes, including validity, reliability, and diagnostic tests. The paper is designed to help...

Adds more weight to the body of evidence showing that declines in the welfare caseload are likely to have a noticeable effect on state Medicaid programs, in terms of overall enrollment, caseload mix, and per capita expenditures. Also points to continuity problems in enrollment, which may be...