Volume 56 | Number 1 | February 2021
PROVIDER PAYMENTS
Hospital‐physician integration and Medicare’s site‐based outpatient payments
Brady Post PhD, Edward C. Norton Ph.D., Brent Hollenbeck MD, MS, Thomas Buchmueller PhD, Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D., M.A.
Provider networks and health plan premium variation
Daniel Polsky, Bingxiao Wu PhD
Pricing in commercial dental insurance and provider markets
Kamyar Nasseh Ph.D., John R. Bowblis Ph.D., Marko Vujicic Ph.D.
STATE HEALTH POLICY
Evaluating inpatient adverse outcomes under California's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program
Michelle S. Keller PhD, MPH, Xiao Chen Ph.D., Jamie Godwin BA, Jack Needleman, Nadereh Pourat
Changes in early high‐risk opioid prescribing practices after policy interventions in Washington State
Jeanne M. Sears Ph.D., M.S., R.N., John R. Haight MPH, Deborah Fulton‐Kehoe, Thomas M. Wickizer, Jaymie Mai PharmD, Gary M. Franklin
Association of smoke‐free laws with preterm or low birth weight deliveries—A multistate analysis
Xu Ji PhD, Shanna Cox MSPH, Scott D. Grosse Ph.D., Wanda D. Barfield MD, MPH, Brian S. Armour PhD, Elizabeth A. Courtney‐Long MA MSPH, Rui Li
PREVENTIVE CARE
Spatial accessibility to colonoscopy and its role in predicting late‐stage colorectal cancer
Whitney E. Zahnd PhD, Michele J. Josey PhD, Mario Schootman, Jan M. Eberth
The effects of Medicaid on access to care and adherence to recommended preventive services
Steven C. Hill Ph.D., Salam Abdus PhD
Disruptions in preventive care: Mammograms during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Hummy Song PhD, MPP, Alon Bergman PhD, Angela T. Chen MA, Dan Ellis MA, Guy David PhD, Ari B. Friedman MD, PhD, Amelia M. Bond, Julie M. Bailey MBA, Ronald Brooks MD, Aaron Smith‐McLallen PhD
CARE QUALITY
Patients discharged from higher‐quality skilled nursing facilities spend more days at home
Adam Simning MD, PhD, Jessica Orth MS, MPH, Helena Temkin‐Greener Ph.D., Yue Li Ph.D.
Optimal staffing in community health centers to improve quality of care
Qian Luo PhD, Avi Dor, Patricia Pittman
Evaluating national trends in outcomes after implementation of a star rating system: Results from dialysis facility compare
Stephen Salerno MS, Claudia Dahlerus PhD, Joseph Messana M.D., Karen Wisniewski MPH, Lan Tong MPH, Richard A. Hirth, Jordan Affholter BA, Garrett Gremel MS, YiFan Wu MPH, Ji Zhu PhD, Jesse Roach MD, Elena Balovlenkov RN, Joel Andress PhD, Yi Li Ph.D.
EVALUATION TOOLS
Employing computational linguistics techniques to identify limited patient health literacy: Findings from the ECLIPPSE study
Dean Schillinger M.D., Renu Balyan PhD, Scott A. Crossley PhD, Danielle S. McNamara PhD, Jennifer Y. Liu MPH, Andrew J. Karter Ph.D.
Development and validation of an organizational readiness to change instrument focused on cultural competency
Ann Scheck McAlearney Sc.D., M.S., Megan Gregory PhD, Daniel M. Walker Ph.D., M.P.H., Michael Edwards PhD, MA
Derivation and validation of a novel comorbidity‐based delirium risk index to predict postoperative delirium using national administrative healthcare database
Xiaobo Zhong DrPH, Jung‐Yi Lin MS, Lihua Li PhD, A. M. Barrett MD, Jashvant Poeran MD, PhD, Madhu Mazumdar PhD