Using a variety of data sources, this paper examines health care utilization patterns of Healthy San Francisco … enrollees. The findings suggest that the program, designed to increase uninsured people's access to health care, is increasing … access to primary care for participating adults, improving self-reported health status, and altering care-seeking behavior. …

This article examines successful models used by hospital emergency departments, health department outpatient clinics …

Compared with the hospital and health plan contract disputes and financial woes of two years ago, the Boston health …

controlling health care costs. Compared to other hospitals, high-price hospitals tend to be larger, be major teaching hospitals …