Volume 50 | Number 3 | June 2015
Medicaid Enrollment and Costs
Health Care Utilization among Children Enrolled in Medicaid and via Express Lane Eligibility
Margaret Colby M.P.P., Brenda Natzke M.P.P.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Intensive Care Management for Disabled Medicaid Beneficiaries with High Health Care Costs
Janice F. Bell Ph.D., M.N., M.P.H., Antoinette Krupski Ph.D., Jutta M. Joesch Ph.D., Imara I. West M.P.H., David C. Atkins Ph.D., Beverly Court Ph.D., David Mancuso Ph.D., Peter Roy‐Byrne M.D.
End‐of‐Life Medical Costs of Medicaid Cancer Patients
Florence K.L. Tangka Ph.D., Sujha Subramanian Ph.D., Susan A. Sabatino M.D., M.P.H., David H. Howard Ph.D., Susan Haber Sc.D., Sonja Hoover M.P.P., Lisa C. Richardson M.D., M.P.H.
Quality of Care
The Relationships of Physician Practice Characteristics to Quality of Care and Costs
John Kralewski Ph.D., M.H.A., Bryan Dowd Ph.D., M.S., David Knutson M.S., Junliang Tong M.S., Megan Savage B.S.
Impact of a Chronic Care Coordinator Intervention on Diabetes Quality of Care in a Community Health Center
Rosa Solorio M.D., M.P.H., Aasthaa Bansal Ph.D., Bryan Comstock M.S., Krista Ulatowski M.P.H., R.D.N., Sara Barker M.P.H.
Disparities in Assessment, Treatment, and Recommendations for Specialty Mental Health Care: Patient Reports of Medical Provider Behavior
Oanh L. Meyer Ph.D., M.A.S., Anne Saw Ph.D., Young Il Cho Ph.D., Tonya L. Fancher M.D., M.P.H.
Optimal Colorectal Cancer Screening in States' Low‐Income, Uninsured Populations—The Case of South Carolina
Alex Steen M.Sc., Amy B. Knudsen Ph.D., Frank Hees M.Sc., Gailya P. Walter M.P.H., Franklin G. Berger Ph.D., Virginie G. Daguise Ph.D., Karen M. Kuntz Sc.D., Ann G. Zauber Ph.D., Marjolein Ballegooijen Ph.D., Iris Lansdorp‐Vogelaar Ph.D.
Pharmaceutical Policy and Utilization
Effect of Medicare Dialysis Payment Reform on Use of Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents
Shailender Swaminathan Ph.D., Vincent Mor Ph.D., Rajnish Mehrotra M.D., Amal N. Trivedi M.D., M.P.H.
Association between Increased Emergency Contraception Availability and Risky Sexual Practices
Danielle N. Atkins Ph.D., W. David Bradford Ph.D.
Narrow‐ and Broad‐Spectrum Antibiotic Use among U.S. Children
Eric M. Sarpong Ph.D., G. Edward Miller Ph.D.
Health Care Spending and Costs
Chronic Pain and Health Care Spending: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Erica L. Stockbridge M.A., Sumihiro Suzuki Ph.D., José A. Pagán Ph.D.
The Opportunity Costs of Informal Elder‐Care in the United States: New Estimates from the American Time Use Survey
Amalavoyal V. Chari Ph.D., John Engberg Ph.D., Kristin N. Ray M.D., Ateev Mehrotra M.D.,M.P.H.
The Relationship between Commercial Health Care Prices and Medicare Spending and Utilization
John A. Romley Ph.D., Sarah Axeen B.A., Darius N. Lakdawalla Ph.D., Michael E. Chernew Ph.D., Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Ph.D., Dana P. Goldman Ph.D.
Methods Articles
Development and Validation of the Primary Care Team Dynamics Survey
Hummy Song PhD, MPP, Alyna T. Chien M.D., M.S., Josephine Fisher B.A., Julia Martin B.A., Antoinette S. Peters Ph.D., Karen Hacker M.D., M.P.H, Meredith B. Rosenthal Ph.D., Sara J. Singer M.B.A, Ph.D.
Effect of Present‐on‐Admission () Reporting Accuracy on Hospital Performance Assessments Using Risk‐Adjusted Mortality
L. Elizabeth Goldman M.D., M.C.R., Philip W. Chu M.S., Peter Bacchetti Ph.D., Jenna Kruger M.S., Andrew Bindman M.D.