Volume 53 | Number S1 | August 2018
Consumer Behavior and Choice
Presenting Cost and Efficiency Measures That Support Consumers to Make High‐Value Health Care Choices
Jessica Greene Ph.D., Rebecca M. Sacks M.P.H.
Trends in Use of Risk‐Reducing Mastectomy in a Context of Celebrity Decisions and Media Coverage: An Observational Study in the United States and Australia
Jialin Mao M.D., M.S., Louisa Jorm Ph.D., Art Sedrakyan M.D., Ph.D.
Impact of In‐Hospital Death on Spending for Bereaved Spouses
Katherine A. Ornstein Ph.D., M.P.H., Melissa M. Garrido Ph.D., Albert L. Siu M.D., M.S.P.H., Evan Bollens‐Lund M.A., Kenneth M. Langa, Amy S. Kelley M.D., M.S.H.S.
Does Enrollment in High‐Deductible Health Plans Encourage Price Shopping?
Xinke Zhang Ph.D., Amelia Haviland Ph.D., Ateev Mehrotra M.D.,M.P.H., Peter Huckfeldt Ph.D., Zachary Wagner Ph.D., Neeraj Sood Ph.D
Health Insurance Coverage, Cost and Outcomes
Impact of Cost‐Sharing Increases on Continuity of Specialty Drug Use: A Quasi‐Experimental Study
Pengxiang Li, Tianyan Hu Ph.D., Xinyan Yu M.D., M.S., Salim Chahin M.D., M.S.C.E., Nabila Dahodwala M.D., M.S., Marissa Blum M.D., M.S.H.P., Amy R. Pettit Ph.D., Jalpa A. Doshi
Rising Drug Costs Drives the Growth of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Exclusion Lists: Are Exclusion Decisions Value‐Based?
Joshua P. Cohen Ph.D., Christelle El Khoury Pharm.D., M.P.H., Christopher‐Paul Milne D.V.M., M.P.H., J.D., Sandra M. Peters M.L.I.S.
Health Policy Impacts
Providing Family Planning Services at Primary Care Organizations after the Exclusion of Planned Parenthood from Publicly Funded Programs in Texas: Early Qualitative Evidence
Kari White Ph.D., M.P.H., Kristine Hopkins Ph.D., Daniel Grossman M.D., Joseph E. Potter Ph.D.
Modeling Community Discharge of Medicaid Nursing Home Residents: Implications for Money Follows the Person
Zachary Hass Ph.D., Mark Woodhouse B.A., Robert Kane M.D., Greg Arling
Estimating the Cost of Providing Foundational Public Health Services
Cezar Brian C. Mamaril Ph.D., Glen P. Mays, Douglas Keith Branham Dr.P.H., Betty Bekemeier Ph.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.N., Justin Marlowe Ph.D., Lava Timsina Ph.D.
Medicaid Expansion and Health Plan Quality in Medicaid Managed Care
Chima D. Ndumele Ph.D., William L. Schpero M.P.H., Amal N. Trivedi M.D., M.P.H.
Shifting Patterns in Cesarean Delivery Scheduling and Timing in Oregon before and after a Statewide Hard Stop Policy
Ifeoma Muoto Ph.D., M.S., Blair G. Darney Ph.D., M.P.H., Bernard Lau M.P.H., Yvonne W. Cheng M.D., Ph.D., Mark W. Tomlinson M.D., M.B.A., Duncan R. Neilson M.D., Steven A. Friedman M.D., Joanne Rogovoy B.S., Aaron B. Caughey M.D., Ph.D., Jonathan M. Snowden Ph.D.
Effects of the Medicare Modernization Act on Spending for Outpatient Surgery
John M. Hollingsworth M.D., M.S., Mary K. Oerline M.S., Chandy Ellimoottil M.D., M.S., Lindsey A. Herrel M.D., M.S., Brent K. Hollenbeck M.D., M.S.
Medicaid Expansions and Cervical Cancer Screening for Low‐Income Women
Lindsay M. Sabik Ph.D., Wafa W. Tarazi Ph.D., Stephanie Hochhalter M.P.H., M.S.W., Bassam Dahman, Cathy J. Bradley
Social Determinants of Health
Patterns of Collaboration among Health Care and Social Services Providers in Communities with Lower Health Care Utilization and Costs
Amanda L. Brewster PhD, Marie A. Brault Ph.D., Annabel X. Tan MPH, Leslie A. Curry, Elizabeth H. Bradley
Heterogeneous Relationships between Labor Income and Health by Race/Ethnicity
Abdulkarim M. Meraya M.S., Ph.D., Nilanjana Dwibedi Ph.D., Kim Innes Ph.D., Sophie Mitra Ph.D., Xi Tan Ph.D., Usha Sambamoorthi Ph.D.
Geographic Disparities in Access to Nursing Home Services: Assessing Fiscal Stress and Quality of Care
Young Joo Park M.P.P., Erika G. Martin Ph.D.
The Impact of on Infant Immunizations and Health Care Utilization
Tim Bersak Ph.D., Lyudmyla Sonchak Ph.D.
Health Care Quality and Measurement
Evaluation of the Present‐on‐Admission Indicator among Hospitalized Fee‐for‐Service Medicare Patients with a Pressure Ulcer Diagnosis: Coding Patterns and Impact on Hospital‐Acquired Pressure Ulcer Rates
Lee Squitieri M.D., Ph.D., M.S., Daniel A. Waxman M.D., Ph.D., Carol M. Mangione, Debra Saliba M.D., M.P.H., Clifford Y. Ko M.D., M.S., M.S.H.S., Jack Needleman, David A. Ganz M.D., Ph.D.
Comparison of Electronic Health Record–Based and Claims‐Based Diabetes Care Quality Measures: Causes of Discrepancies
Michael Barton Laws Ph.D., Joanne Michaud M.S., Renee Shield Ph.D., William McQuade D.Sc., M.P.H., Ira B. Wilson M.D., M.Sc.
Nursing Care Disparities in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Eileen T. Lake Ph.D., R.N., Douglas Staiger Ph.D., Erika Miles Edwards Ph.D., M.P.H., Jessica G. Smith Ph.D., R.N., Jeannette A. Rogowski Ph.D.
Quantifying Magnitude of Group‐Level Differences in Patient Experiences with Health Care
Denise D. Quigley, Marc N. Elliott, Claude Messan Setodji Ph.D., Ron D. Hays
Financial Incentives and Physician Practice Participation in Medicare's Value‐Based Reforms
Adam A. Markovitz B.S., Patricia P. Ramsay M.P.H., Stephen M. Shortell Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A.
HSR Methods
Testing the Impact of Mixed‐Mode Designs (Mail Web) and Multiple Contact Attempts within Mode (Mail Web) on Clinician Survey Response
Timothy J. Beebe, Robert M. Jacobson M.D., Sarah M. Jenkins M.S., Kandace A. Lackore B.S., Lila J. Finney Rutten Ph.D.
Development of a Caregiver‐Reported Experience Measure for Pediatric Hospital‐to‐Home Transitions
Arti D. Desai M.D., M.S.P.H., Elizabeth A. Jacob‐Files M.A., M.P.H., Sarah J. Lowry Ph.D., Douglas J. Opel M.D., M.P.H., Rita Mangione‐Smith, Maria T. Britto M.D., M.P.H., Waylon J. Howard Ph.D.
Key Design Considerations When Calculating Cost Savings for Population Health Management Programs in an Observational Setting
Shannon M. E. Murphy, Douglas E. Hough Ph.D., Martha L. Sylvia Ph.D., M.B.A., R.N.,, Linda J. Dunbar Ph.D., Kevin D. Frick
Modeling Semicontinuous Longitudinal Expenditures: A Practical Guide
Valerie A. Smith Dr.P.H., Matthew L. Maciejewski Ph.D., Maren K. Olsen Ph.D.
Using Weighted Hospital Service Area Networks to Explore Variation in Preventable Hospitalization
Michael O. Falster Ph.D., Louisa R. Jorm B.V.Sc, M.Sc., Ph.D., Alastair H. Leyland Ph.D., F.F.P.H.
Effectiveness of Interventions for Breast Cancer Screening in African American Women: A Meta‐Analysis
Valire Carr Copeland Ph.D., M.P.H., Yoo Jung Kim Ph.D., Shaun M. Eack Ph.D.
Mental Health Risk Adjustment with Clinical Categories and Machine Learning
Akritee Shrestha M.S., Savannah Bergquist M.Sc., Ellen Montz M.P.Aff., Sherri Rose Ph.D.
Development and Validation of a Short‐Form Safety Net Medical Home Scale
Robert S. Nocon M.H.S., Kathryn E. Gunter M.P.H., M.S.W., Yue Gao M.P.H., Sang Mee Lee Ph.D., Marshall H. Chin M.D., M.P.H.
Estimating Costs of Care Attributable to Cancer: Does the Choice of Comparison Group Matter?
Aileen B. Chen M.D., M.P.P., Ling Li M.S.P.H., Angel M. Cronin M.S., Gabriel A. Brooks M.D., M.P.H., Brian D. Kavanagh M.D., M.P.H., Deborah Schrag M.D., M.P.H.
Do Avoidable Hospitalization Rates among Older Adults Differ by Geographic Access to Primary Care Physicians?
Michael R. Daly M.Com., Jennifer M. Mellor Ph.D., Marco Millones Ph.D.