Browsing by Author "Newhouse, Joseph"
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Adjusted Mortality Rates Are Lower For Medicare Advantage Than Traditional Medicare, But The Rates Converge Over Time
Newhouse, Joseph; Price, Mary; McWilliams, J. Michael; Hsu, John; Souza, Jeff; Landon, Bruce L. (Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2019-04)Overall age-sex-Medicaid adjusted mortality rates in Medicare Advantage have been below those of Traditional Medicare for many years. They do, however, move toward mortality rates in Traditional Medicare as time after ... -
Adverse Selection into and within the Individual Health Insurance Market in California in 2014
Fung, Vicki; Peitzman, Cassandra; shi, Julie; Liang, Catherine; Dow, William; Zaslavsky, Alan; Fireman, Bruce; Derose, Stephen; Chernew, Michael; Newhouse, Joseph; Hsu, John -
Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot
Poon, Eric G; Jha, Ashish Kumar; Christino, Melissa; Honour, Melissa M; Fernandopulle, Rushika Jerome; Middleton, Blackford; Newhouse, Joseph Paul; Leape, Lucian L.; Bates, David Westfall; Blumenthal, David; Kaushal, Rainu (Springer Nature, 2006)Background: Comprehensive knowledge about the level of healthcare information technology (HIT) adoption in the United States remains limited. We therefore performed a baseline assessment to address this knowledge gap. ... -
Assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Increase in Fees for Primary Care and Access to Care for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
Fung, Vicki; Price, Mary; Hull, Peter; Cook, Benjamin; Hsu, John; Newhouse, Joseph (American Medical Association, 2021-01-21)IMPORTANCE The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) temporarily increased primary care practitioners’ (PCP) Medicaid fees to that of Medicare for 2013 to 2014 (fee bump) to help accommodate potential increases ... -
Changes in Screening Colonoscopy Following Medicare Reimbursement and Cost‐sharing Changes
Hsu, John; Song, Lina; Newhouse, Joseph; Garcia‐De‐Albeniz, Xabier (Wiley, 2019-04-02)Objectives: To compare existing algorithms for classifying screening vs diagnostic colonoscopies and to quantify the increase in screening colonoscopy rates when Medicare began reimbursement in 2001 and when the Affordable ... -
Commentary on: The effects of coding intensity in Medicare advantage on plan benefits and finances
Newhouse, Joseph (Wiley, 2021-03-17) -
The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective
Newhouse, Joseph (SAGE Publications, 2020-12-01)This paper, prepared as part of a special issue on multi-armed experiments, describes the design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, paying particular attention to the choice of arms. It also describes how the results ... -
Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
Huckfeldt, Peter J; Sood, Neeraj; Escarce, Jose J; Grabowski, David C.; Newhouse, Joseph Paul (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal reimbursement. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home ... -
An evaluation of the FDA's analysis of the costs and benefits of the graphic warning label regulation
Chaloupka, Frank J; Warner, Kenneth E; Acemoğlu, Daron; Gruber, Jonathan; Laux, Fritz; Max, Wendy; Newhouse, Joseph; Schelling, Thomas; Sindelar, Jody (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products and authorised it to assert jurisdiction over ... -
Fiscal difficulties of cities, the labor market, and health care
Hsu, John; Newhouse, Joseph; Overhage, Lindsay Nicole; Zuvekas, Samuel (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-12-19)We investigated labor force and health outcomes in cities experiencing fiscal difficulties to assess how those difficulties might impact their employees. We matched 23 cities with bond downgrades and 31 cities with stable ... -
Geographic Variation in Medicare Services
Newhouse, Joseph Paul; Garber, Alan M (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2013) -
Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?
Smith, Sheila D.; Newhouse, Joseph; Cuckler, Gigi A. (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-01)Over 2009-2019 the seemingly inexorable rise in health care’s share of GDP markedly slowed, both in the US and elsewhere. To address whether this slowdown represents a reduced steady-state growth rate or just a temporary ... -
High-Deductible Insurance and Delay in Care for the Macrovascular Complications of Diabetes
Wharam, J. Frank; Lu, Christine Y.; Zhang, Fang; Callahan, Matthew; Xu, Xin; Wallace, Jamie; Soumerai, Stephen; Ross-Degnan, Dennis; Newhouse, Joseph (American College of Physicians, 2018-11-20)Background: Little is known about the long-term effects of high-deductible insurance on care for chronic medical conditions. Objective: To determine whether a transition from low-deductible to high-deductible insurance ... -
Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia
Moura, Lidia M. V. R.; Festa, Natalia; Price, Mary; Volya, Margarita; Benson, Nicole M.; Zafar, Sahar; Weiss, Max; Blacker, Deborah; Normand, Sharon-Lise; Newhouse, Joseph; Hsu, John (Wiley, 2021-04-26)BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: No data exist regarding the validity of International Classification of Disease (ICD)-10 dementia diagnoses within Medicare claims data. We examined the accuracy of claims-based diagnoses with respect ... -
Identifying outlier patterns of inconsistent ambulance billing in Medicare
Sanghavi, Prachi; Jena, Anupam B.; Newhouse, Joseph; Zaslavsky, Alan M. (Wiley, 2021-01-25)Objective To illustrate a method that accounts for sampling variation in identifying suppliers and counties with outlying rates of a particular pattern of inconsistent billing for ambulance services to Medicare Data Sources ... -
The impact of funding for federally qualified health centers on utilization and emergency department visits in Massachusetts
Myong, Catherine; Hull, Peter; Price, Mary; Hsu, John; Newhouse, Joseph; Fung, Vicki (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-03)Importance. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) receive federal funding to serve medically underserved areas and provide a range of services including comprehensive primary care, enabling services, and behavioral ... -
The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices
Saghafian, Soroush; Song, Linda D.; Newhouse, Joseph; Landrum, Mary; Hsu, John (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-11)The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a period of substantial change, with hospitals purchasing many physician practices (\vertical integration"). In theory, this vertical integration could improve quality by promoting ... -
Incentives and limitations of employment policies on retirement transitions
Newhouse, Joseph; Clark, Robert (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-02-26)As the population ages and life expectancy at older ages increases, it becomes more challenging for individuals, firms, and governments to finance adequate living standards in retirement. Working longer is an important ... -
Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients — Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I
Brennan, Troyen; Leape, Lucian; Laird, Nan; Hebert, Liesi; Localio, A. Russell; Lawthers, Ann G.; Newhouse, Joseph; Weiler, Paul; Hiatt, Howard (Massachusetts Medical Society, 1991-02-07)METHODS We reviewed 30,121 randomly selected records from 51 randomly selected acute care, nonpsychiatric hospitals in New York State in 1984. We then developed population estimates of injuries and computed rates according ... -
Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics
Schwartz, Aaron Lawrence (2015-04-24)Imperfect information is a pervasive feature of health care markets. Therefore, measuring the quality and value of health care services may inform efforts to improve health care delivery. This dissertation explores several ...