The purposes of this paper are to describe some conceptual and empirical foundations of "healthy-time" measures of health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper...

Rationale. CareOregon is a Medicaid provider of healthcare services in Oregon. Previous investigations indicated that the CareOregon complex care management (CCCM) program lowered plan-supported utilization and cost but data on outcomes for patients were lacking. Objectives. To examine the...