… data from private health plans to measure and compare hospital prices at a high level of
detail. This is the first broad-based study that reports prices paid by private health plans to …

… health concern. In 2000, there were an estimated 200 million Americans with private health
… indicate an annual health and economic burden to private health plans of 330,000 cases of …

The United States has seen a sea change in the way that publicly financed health insurance
coverage is provided to low-income, elderly, and disabled enrollees. When programs such …

… a nationally representative sample of private health plans regarding alcohol, drug abuse,
and mental health services in 1999 and 2003. Our focus was on managed care plans, which by …

… how private health plans organize and manage behavioral health services is critical. To
understand access to behavioral health … of US adults who have private health insurance, it is …

… It is unclear, for example, whether plans are more likely to … We analyzed a database of private
health plan coverage … drug coverage across the largest US private plans, and (3) evaluate …

… adverse health selection of those holding a private coverage (… private health plan status and
several indicators of health status… of adverse health selection in holding a private health plan …

… private health plans. This underscores a tension in the US approach to vaccine financing, in
which private … concert with respect to public health goals such as preserving vaccine supply. …

… This paper presents estimates of private health plan utilization and expenditures on
antidepressant medications in 2002 for both enrollees being treated for mental health/substance …

… with health plans that are members of America’s Health Insurance Plans, we identified
twenty-two health plans with … From these we selected eight health plans for further study. …