State Health Plans - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Price and quality transparency: how effective for health care reform?

29 Jun 2009 Many in Minnesota and the United States are promoting price and quality transparency as a means for reforming health care. The assumption is that with such information, consumers and providers would be motivated to change their behavior and this ... Read more...

Reforming patient assistance programs: perfect world meets real world.

29 Apr 2009 Drug company-sponsored pharmacy assistance programs (PAPs) are an imperfect solution to a wide-ranging access problem. These programs help millions of people with chronic conditions get life-saving medications. Spending funds to tinker with these ... Read more...

State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment.

29 Apr 2009 We examine the potential of mental health/substance abuse (MH/SA) parity laws to reduce the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient treatment at the state level by exploring cross-state variations and their causes, as well as the provisions of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'State Health Plans - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicare payment needs fixing. 30 Jul 2009
• Cutting costs must not harm patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Pharmacy benefit manager switch--why the change? 29 Jun 2009
• Price and quality transparency: how effective for health care reform? 29 Jun 2009
• Health care reform in a down economy. 29 Jun 2009
• Evaluation of Rhode Island's Pediatric Practice Enhancement Project (PPEP). 29 Jun 2009
• Pawlenty uses veto power to cut health care. 30 May 2009
• Reforming patient assistance programs: perfect world meets real world. 29 Apr 2009
• State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Awareness of pharmaceutical cost-assistance programs among inner-city seniors. 30 Mar 2009
• TMA IIC keeping track of TennCare inequities. 30 Mar 2009
• Effect of an expenditure cap on low-income seniors' drug use and spending in a state pharmacy assistance program. 28 Feb 2009
• Stimulus saves Medicaid, but nobody's celebrating. 27 Feb 2009
• A comparative analysis of Medicaid long-term care policies and their effects on elderly dual enrollees. 27 Feb 2009
• Watching Medicaid in R.I. Controversial waiver puts allocations in spotlight. 21 Feb 2009
• The $64 million question. Invest in good teaching. 30 Jan 2009
• Access to health insurance: State Childrens's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• Medicaid waivers. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• DAKOTACARE update: advanced imaging notification to start in 2009. 30 Dec 2008
• CMS "never events" and other new trends in quality health care standards for hospitals. 29 Nov 2008

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Definition: State plans prepared by the State Health Planning and Development Agencies which are made up from plans submitted by the Health Systems Agencies and subject to review and revision by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.

Descriptor UI: D013221

Alternative terms: State Health Plans; Health Plan, State; Health Plans, State; Plan, State Health; Plans, State Health; State Health Plan; Comprehensive Health Plans, State;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.349.650.480;

History Note: 80

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