This working paper reviews impacts of the Electronic Health Records Demonstration implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, finding that moderate incentive payments did not lead to universal electronic health record (EHR) adoption and use in a two-year time frame. However, the...

This report summarizes the evaluation findings for the Electronic Health Records Demonstration (EHRD), funded and implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A large proportion of practices (43 percent) were unable or unwilling to meet program requirements to continue...

This working paper reviews impacts of the Electronic Health Records Demonstration implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, finding that moderate incentive payments did not lead to universal electronic health record (EHR) adoption and use in a two-year time frame. However, the...

Provides a national profile of the growing role of Medicaid-dominated plans in the changing Medicaid managed care marketplace. To date, basic information on these plans has been lacking, partly because many are not licensed as HMOs by states. Call the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation at (800)...

The end of long-standing exclusive contracts between the dominant Greenville Hospital System and two major health plans, coupled with increased hospital expansion, suggests health care costs will continue to rise in Greenville.

Transparency through public reporting of quality data is key to achieving the Institute of Medicine's vision for 21st century health care. This article reviews the status of states' voluntary public reporting of Medicaid managed care quality data. Twenty-one states have made plan-level data...