Drug benefits have responded to the rise in drug costs by increasing patient cost sharing. However, many now realize that increasing cost sharing for high-value preventive-care drugs can be detrimental in terms of reducing patient drug adherence and causing increased inpatient and outpatient...

Introduction: While there has been much discussion in recent years concerning the construction of hospital quality indexes, researchers have often failed to adequately test these quality measures against testable hypotheses. Our objective is to create a quality index using a fixed-effects...