Stephen Zuckerman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4399322 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Zuckerman |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Zuckerman |
| ASSINATURA | ZUCKERMAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Urban Institute |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Association of Cost Sharing With Delayed and Complicated Presentation of Acute Appendicitis or Diverticulitis
The findings of this cohort study suggest that, as policymakers debate the degree of cost sharing in public and private insurance plans, attention should be given to the clinical and financial implications associated with care delays
Reforming Beneficiary Cost Sharing to Improve Medicare Performance
This paper explores options for reforming Medicare cost sharing in an effort to provide better financial protection for those beneficiaries with the greatest health care needs. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we consider how unified annual deductibles, alternative coinsurance rates, and a limit on out-of-pocket spending would alter program spending, beneficiary cost sharing…
Medicare Savings Programs
The Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) are designed to provide financial assistance to Medicare beneficiaries who do not qualify for full Medicaid coverage. This paper considers changes in eligibility that would better align MSP program rules with those related to receiving low-income subsidies for the Medicare Part D drug benefit. These changes would make more people eligible for the MSPs and could encourage greater participation; similar changes …
Toward Universal Coverage in Massachusetts
This paper presents several options designed to help the Commonwealth of Massachusetts move to universal health insurance coverage. The alternatives all build upon a common base that includes an expansion of the Medicaid program, income-related tax credits, a purchasing pool, and government-sponsored reinsurance. These measures in themselves would not yield universal coverage, nor would an employer mandate by itself. We show that an individual ma…
National Estimates of the Effects of Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care Programs on Health Care Access and Use, 1997–1999
OBJECTIVE: We sought to explore how mandatory Medicaid managed care programs affect access to care and use among full-year Medicaid beneficiaries not receiving SSI or Medicare. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America's Families. To establish what Medicaid beneficiaries' access and use would have been in the absence of Medicaid managed care (MMC) and to control for unobserved county differences, we estimated…
MassHealth Succeeds in Expanding Coverage for Adults
MassHealth Succeeds in Expanding Coverage for Adults
This study provides the first rigorous evaluation of the impacts of MassHealth, Massachusetts' ambitious effort in the late 1990s to expand coverage to the entire low-income population. We find clear evidence that MassHealth led to an expansion of insurance coverage relative to what was happening to similar populations in comparison states. The success of MassHealth provides support for the value of investing in ambitious new state efforts to fin…
Health Service Access, Use, and Insurance Coverage Among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Whites
Objectives. We compared access and utilization of health services among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIANs) with that among non-Hispanic Whites. Methods. We used data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America’s Families to estimate odds ratios for several measures of access and utilization and the effects of Indian Health Service (IHS) coverage. Results. AIANs had less insurance coverage and worse access and utilization than Whites. O…
Characteristics of Occasional and Frequent Emergency Department Users
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore how insurance coverage, access to care, and other individual characteristics are related to the large differences in emergency department (ED) use among the general population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America's Families, a nationally representative sample. People were classified into 3 ED use levels based on the number of visits over the 12 months be…
Has Medicaid Managed Care Affected Beneficiary Access and Use
This paper uses data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families to examine the effects of the various forms of mandatory Medicaid managed care on access and use among beneficiaries not receiving Supplemental Security Income or Medicare benefits. The results show that mandatory health maintenance organization (HMO) programs have had a positive impact on both children and adults, particularly when compared to Medicaid fee-for-service plans…
Financial Pressure and Competition
Using data from the American Hospital Association and the Medicare program, the authors analyzed the effects of financial pressure and market competition on changes in several measures of performance of 1,435 acute care hospitals between 1987 and 1989. Over the observation period, the least profitable hospitals constrained their growth in total expenses to half that for the most profitable hospitals (13.3% versus 27.6%) by limiting the growth of …
Health Care Reform and Public Administration
Measuring Prices of Medicare Physician Services
This study develops two sets of price indices for Medicare physician services. The first measures price changes, and the second measures geographic price differentials. The indices can be used to adjust Medicare physician spending data to examine growth or variations in the volume and intensity of services. In both instances, it is necessary to apply an index form that reflects both the rapid changes and variability in the mix of physician servic…
ProVisional Theatre's XA
The ProVisional Theatre from Los Angeles performed two of the three works in their repertoire at the Experimental Theatre Festival in Ann Arbor. In addition, they gave a workshop, conducted by Steve Kent, a non-performing director of the group. It consisted for the most part of animated body work and theatre games. Exercises from Viola Spolin's canon as well as sound and movement exercises developed by Joseph Chaikin and The Open Theater were dem…
Health Service Access, Use, and Insurance Coverage Among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Whites
Objectives. We compared access and utilization of health services among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIANs) with that among non-Hispanic Whites. Methods. We used data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America’s Families to estimate odds ratios for several measures of access and utilization and the effects of Indian Health Service (IHS) coverage. Results. AIANs had less insurance coverage and worse access and utilization than Whites. O…
ProVisional Theatre's XA
The ProVisional Theatre from Los Angeles performed two of the three works in their repertoire at the Experimental Theatre Festival in Ann Arbor. In addition, they gave a workshop, conducted by Steve Kent, a non-performing director of the group. It consisted for the most part of animated body work and theatre games. Exercises from Viola Spolin's canon as well as sound and movement exercises developed by Joseph Chaikin and The Open Theater were dem…
Measuring Prices of Medicare Physician Services
This study develops two sets of price indices for Medicare physician services. The first measures price changes, and the second measures geographic price differentials. The indices can be used to adjust Medicare physician spending data to examine growth or variations in the volume and intensity of services. In both instances, it is necessary to apply an index form that reflects both the rapid changes and variability in the mix of physician servic…
Health Care Reform and Public Administration
Financial Pressure and Competition
Using data from the American Hospital Association and the Medicare program, the authors analyzed the effects of financial pressure and market competition on changes in several measures of performance of 1,435 acute care hospitals between 1987 and 1989. Over the observation period, the least profitable hospitals constrained their growth in total expenses to half that for the most profitable hospitals (13.3% versus 27.6%) by limiting the growth of …
Has Medicaid Managed Care Affected Beneficiary Access and Use
This paper uses data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families to examine the effects of the various forms of mandatory Medicaid managed care on access and use among beneficiaries not receiving Supplemental Security Income or Medicare benefits. The results show that mandatory health maintenance organization (HMO) programs have had a positive impact on both children and adults, particularly when compared to Medicaid fee-for-service plans…
MassHealth Succeeds in Expanding Coverage for Adults
MassHealth Succeeds in Expanding Coverage for Adults
This study provides the first rigorous evaluation of the impacts of MassHealth, Massachusetts' ambitious effort in the late 1990s to expand coverage to the entire low-income population. We find clear evidence that MassHealth led to an expansion of insurance coverage relative to what was happening to similar populations in comparison states. The success of MassHealth provides support for the value of investing in ambitious new state efforts to fin…
Health Service Access, Use, and Insurance Coverage Among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Whites
Objectives. We compared access and utilization of health services among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AIANs) with that among non-Hispanic Whites. Methods. We used data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America’s Families to estimate odds ratios for several measures of access and utilization and the effects of Indian Health Service (IHS) coverage. Results. AIANs had less insurance coverage and worse access and utilization than Whites. O…
Characteristics of Occasional and Frequent Emergency Department Users
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore how insurance coverage, access to care, and other individual characteristics are related to the large differences in emergency department (ED) use among the general population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America's Families, a nationally representative sample. People were classified into 3 ED use levels based on the number of visits over the 12 months be…
National Estimates of the Effects of Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care Programs on Health Care Access and Use, 1997–1999
OBJECTIVE: We sought to explore how mandatory Medicaid managed care programs affect access to care and use among full-year Medicaid beneficiaries not receiving SSI or Medicare. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used data from the 1997 and 1999 National Survey of America's Families. To establish what Medicaid beneficiaries' access and use would have been in the absence of Medicaid managed care (MMC) and to control for unobserved county differences, we estimated…
Toward Universal Coverage in Massachusetts
This paper presents several options designed to help the Commonwealth of Massachusetts move to universal health insurance coverage. The alternatives all build upon a common base that includes an expansion of the Medicaid program, income-related tax credits, a purchasing pool, and government-sponsored reinsurance. These measures in themselves would not yield universal coverage, nor would an employer mandate by itself. We show that an individual ma…
Medicare Savings Programs
The Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) are designed to provide financial assistance to Medicare beneficiaries who do not qualify for full Medicaid coverage. This paper considers changes in eligibility that would better align MSP program rules with those related to receiving low-income subsidies for the Medicare Part D drug benefit. These changes would make more people eligible for the MSPs and could encourage greater participation; similar changes …
Reforming Beneficiary Cost Sharing to Improve Medicare Performance
This paper explores options for reforming Medicare cost sharing in an effort to provide better financial protection for those beneficiaries with the greatest health care needs. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we consider how unified annual deductibles, alternative coinsurance rates, and a limit on out-of-pocket spending would alter program spending, beneficiary cost sharing…
Association of Cost Sharing With Delayed and Complicated Presentation of Acute Appendicitis or Diverticulitis
The findings of this cohort study suggest that, as policymakers debate the degree of cost sharing in public and private insurance plans, attention should be given to the clinical and financial implications associated with care delays
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