This article identifies a high-risk subgroup of Medicare beneficiaries in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration for which 4 of the 11 participating programs significantly reduced hospitalizations, and the distinguishing features of those successful programs. Frequent in-person contact (in...

This report results from an investigation of the extent to which differential attrition form the research sample in the Channeling Demonstration might have led to biased estimates of program impact.

Suggests that local forces may explain why the Medicare managed care market has not developed as the optimists predicted.

School-based health centers can increase students' health knowledge and access to health-related services, but more intensive or different services are needed if they are to significantly reduce risk-taking behaviors.