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September 8, 2011 | Journal Article
The long-term trend of consolidation among U.S. health plans has raised providers' concerns that the concentration of health plan markets can depress their prices.
August 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In examining health care utilization, consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) appeared to exert most of their influence in the first year with CDHP enrollees making fewer office visits than did PPO (preferred provider organization) enrollees.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Minnesota investigated the usefulness of developing physician report cards to complement consumer report cards and other measures of the quality of managed care plans.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
To lessen the damage done by churning, it will be important for states to provide consumers with intensive assistance to help them navigate through the involuntary coverage transitions.
February 20, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 2000, the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees created a union-based health program to provide more timely access to medical treatment for garment and textile workers in New York.
August 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
This 1996-1998 project, conducted by Jinnet B. Fowles, Ph.D., and researchers at the Institute for Research and Education in Minneapolis, evaluated how consumer-based reports cards affect institutional behavior in the health care market.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
An effort to help enhance the quality and equality of U.S. health care.
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
High-deductible health plans—typically with deductibles of at least $1,000 per individual and $2,000 per family—require greater enrollee cost sharing than traditional plans.
April 29, 2013 | Report
Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.
National Program
To invent, prove and diffuse innovations in systems of provider payments and nonfinancial incentives that will encourage and reward high-quality care.