Show them the money. Health reform will emphasize financial incentives for providers and consumers to promote the use of effective health services and discourage use of marginally effective or inappropriate services. The fifth brief in a new series from Mathematica looks at evidence on the...

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...

This two-page brief is based on a study of the Interim Payment System, which temporarily modified the cost reimbursement system used for Medicare home health care while a prospective payment system was developed. Although IPS led to substantial savings to Medicare, it also led to substantial...

This paper presents estimates of TTW impacts on service enrollment, earnings, and benefit amounts during the first two years of program implementation. Estimates indicate that TTW had a small impact on promoting service enrollment during the first year of rollout. However, there is no compelling...

This report, the second from a large-scale study for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences of four early math programs, shows that the curriculum used by the study schools mattered. The study examined (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (Investigations),...