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June 1, 1999 | Program Result
From 1992 to 1997, researchers at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine evaluated the effects of utilization management on health care quality and access.
August 1, 1998 | Program Result
From 1994 to 1996, researcher teams at the University of Virginia and the Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at the New England Medical Center conducted two distinct but parallel studies.
July 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Long-Term Care Data Institute reviewed analytical models then in use for projecting the utilization and costs of different long-term care scenarios, and then used the information gleaned from its analysis to rework its own model.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
During the 1980s, expenditures on pharmaceuticals nationwide increased by 152 percent. HMOs implemented a number of cost-control mechanisms to slow the rate of growth of pharmaceutical expenditures, and were successful in doing so compared to fee-for-service health plans.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
Starting in September 1991, researchers at the Pittsburgh Research Institute, Pittsburgh, compared the health care costs and use for employees at small firms and individual health plan subscribers with employees at large firms.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration developed, tested and demonstrated a national physician profiling system for ambulatory health care.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1998, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care examined how insurers, employers and other purchasers of health care decide which medical technologies to provide to consumers under resource constraints.
November 1, 1996 | Program Result
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care documented the implicit criteria used to determine "medical necessity" related to mental health, and the influences of financial incentives and organizational arrangements on medical necessity decisions.