July/August Health Affairs Focuses on Consumers and Managed Care
The following is a selected listing of reports in the latest issue of Health Affairs. Select articles are available online.
- Law & Ethics: "Consumers Versus Managed Care: The New Class Actions," by Clark Havighurst; "Fraud-and-Abuse Enforcement in Medicare: Finding Middle Ground," by Thomas Stanton; and "How Managed Care Can Be Ethical," by Lauren Randel, Steven Pearson, James Sabin, Tracey Hyams and Ezekiel Emanuel.
- Mental Health: "The Sunset of Federal Mental Health Parity"; "Full Parity: Steps Toward Treatment Equity for Mental and Addictive Disorders," by Kevin Hennessy and Howard Goldman; "Toward Full Mental Health Parity and Beyond," by Daniel Gitterman, Roland Sturm and Richard Scheffler; and "Perspective: Parity or Insurance Mandate? The Case For Mental Health Parity in Kansas," by Sandy Praeger.
- The California Model: "The California Model of Physician Contracting"; "Physician Organization in California: Crisis and Opportunity," by James Robinson; "Canaries in a Coal Mine: California Physician Groups and Competition," by Lawrence Casaling; and "Scale and Structure of Capitated Physician Organization in California," by Meredith Rosenthal, Richard Frank, Joan Buchanan and Arnold Epstein.
- Medicare: "Medicare+Choice: An Interim Report Card," by Marsha Gold.
- Health Tracking: "Marketwatch: Market Failure? Individual Insurance Markets for Older Americans," by Elisabeth Simantov, Cathy Schoen and Stephanie Bruegman; "Marketwatch: Hospital Mergers and Savings For Consumers: Exploring New Evidence," by Heather Spang, Gloria Bazzoli and Richard Arnould; "Trends: How Did Safety-Net Hospitals Cope in the 1990s?" by Stephen Zuckerman, Gloria Bazzoli, Amy Davidoff, and Anthony LoSasso; and "Trends: The Effect of Reforms on Spending For Veterans' Substance Abuse Treatment, 1993-1999," by Shuo Chen, Todd Wagner and Paul Barnett.
- Narrative Matters: "Politics and the Public Hospital in Our Capital," by Paul Offner; and "Making a Public Hospital Work," by Patricia Gabow.
- Datawatch: "Medicare Beneficiaries' Costs of Care in The Last Year of Life," by Christopher Hogan, June Lunney, Jon Gabel and Joanne Lynn; "Embraceable You: How Employers Influence Health Plan Enrollment," by Jon Gabel, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore and Cathy Schoen; and "Are Fortune 100 Companies Responsive To Chronically Ill Workers?" by Fernando Montenegro-Torres, Timothy Engelhardt, Mae Thamer and Gerard Anderson.
- Grantwatch: "Special Report: Reinventing a Multicounty Behavioral Health Care System: The Local Philanthropy as Change Agent," by Edward Meehan, Michael Kaufmann, Paul Carling and Henry Palmer; and "Grants and Grant Outcomes."
