This study evaluated the Medicaid Managed Care Program, an initiative launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1995 to promote the delivery of high-quality health services for low-income people and those with special health care needs. The overview assesses the perspectives of states,...

This study evaluated the Medicaid Managed Care Program, an initiative launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1995 to promote the delivery of high-quality health services for low-income people and those with special health care needs. The overview assesses the perspectives of states,...

Compared with the hospital and health plan contract disputes and financial woes of two years ago, the Boston health care market has stabilized as hospitals and plans regained their financial footing, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.

Large increases in health care costs combined with an economic slowdown have created pressures for health plans and employers to reconsider cost containment strategies that were scaled back after the managed care backlash. This paper examines how plans’ approaches to cost containment and care...

This study evaluated the Medicaid Managed Care Program, an initiative launched by the 168 in 1995 to promote the delivery of high-quality health services for low-income people and those with special health care needs. The overview assesses the perspectives of states, Medicaid health plans, and...

Compared with the hospital and health plan contract disputes and financial woes of two years ago, the Boston health care market has stabilized as hospitals and plans regained their financial footing, according to a new report from the Community Tracking Study.

This study evaluated the Medicaid Managed Care Program, an initiative launched by the 168 in 1995 to promote the delivery of high-quality health services for low-income people and those with special health care needs. The overview assesses the perspectives of states, Medicaid health plans, and...

The island of La Gonave lies northwest of Port-au-Prince and is representative of the subsistence Haitian lifestyle. Little is known about the<i> </i>land cover changes and conversion rates on La Gonave. Using Landsat images from 1990 to 2010, this research investigates landscape dynamics through image...

Conventional wisdom once held that the demand for addictive substances like cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs was unlike that for any other economic good and, therefore, unresponsive to traditional market forces. Recently, however, researchers from two disparate fields, economics and behavioral...