Using consumer focus groups, a technical expert panel, and careful development and testing, this study successfully enabled and administered an existing survey on primary care to assess the health care experiences reported by adults with disabilities.

Confronted with conflicting pressures to stem double-digit premium increases and provide unfettered access to care, health plans are developing products that shift more financial and care management responsibilities to consumers, according to findings from the Community Tracking Study. Plans are...

Population health management programs—programs targeted to a defined population that use a variety of individual, organizational, and societal interventions to improve health outcomes—are increasingly being looked on by large employers as a promising practice for improving health...

With federal and state governments pursuing efforts to better coordinate care and reduce costs for people dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, this brief examines how insurers serving these markets view the opportunities and challenges. Based on interviews with senior executives at 13...

Although contract negotiations between health plans and providers have remained tense during the past two years, overt impasses have declined, according to new findings from the community Tracking Study. The balance of power stabilized during the period, with providers, particularly hospitals,...

With federal and state governments pursuing efforts to better coordinate care and reduce costs for people dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, this brief examines how insurers serving these markets view the opportunities and challenges. Based on interviews with senior executives at 13...