Volume 45 | Number 2 | April 2010
Public Insurance Programs
Falling into the Coverage Gap: Part D Drug Costs and Adherence for Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan Beneficiaries with Diabetes
Vicki Fung Ph.D., Carol M. Mangione, Jie Huang Ph.D., Norman Turk, Elaine S. Quiter, Julie A. Schmittdiel Ph.D., John Hsu M.D., M.B.A.
Comparison of Health Outcomes for Male Seniors in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Advantage Plans
Alfredo J. Selim, Dan Berlowitz, Lewis E. Kazis Sc.D, William Rogers, Steven M. Wright, Shirley X. Qian, James A. Rothendler, Avron Spiro III, Donald Miller, Bernardo J. Selim, Benjamin G. Fincke
A Multilingual Mass Communication Intervention for Seniors and People with Disabilities on Medicaid: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Elaine Kurtovich, Susan L. Ivey, Linda Neuhauser, Carrie Graham, Wendy Constantine, Howard Barkan
Major Illness and Chronic Disease
Does Major Illness Cause Financial Catastrophe?
Keziah Cook, David Dranove, Andrew Sfekas
Diminishing Efficacy of Combination Therapy, Response‐Heterogeneity, and Treatment Intolerance Limit the Attainability of Tight Risk Factor Control in Patients with Diabetes
Justin W. Timbie Ph.D., Rodney A. Hayward, Sandeep Vijan
Physician Workforce and Healthcare Markets
Employed Family Physician Satisfaction and Commitment to Their Practice, Work Group, and Health Care Organization
Ben‐Tzion Karsh, John W. Beasley, Roger L. Brown
Predictors of Chain Acquisition among Independent Dialysis Facilities
Alyssa S. Pozniak, Richard A. Hirth, Jane Banaszak‐Holl, John R. C. Wheeler
Methods Articles
Identification of Hospital Catchment Areas Using Clustering: An Example from the NHS
Stuart John Gilmour
Patient Navigation: Development of a Protocol for Describing What Navigators Do
Victoria A. Parker D.B.A., Jack A. Clark Ph.D., Jenniffer Leyson, Elizabeth Calhoun, Jennifer K. Carroll, Karen M. Freund M.D., M.P.H., Tracy A. Battaglia M.D., M.P.H.
Using Information on Clinical Conditions to Predict High‐Cost Patients
John A. Fleishman, Joel W. Cohen
Research and Methods Briefs
Does the Frequency of Pay‐for‐Performance Payment Matter?—Experience from a Randomized Trial
Sukyung Chung Ph.D., Latha Palaniappan, Eric Wong, Haya Rubin, Harold Luft
Long‐Term Trends in Medicare Payments in the Last Year of Life
Gerald F. Riley M.S.P.H, James D. Lubitz
Using a Hierarchical Model to Estimate Risk‐Adjusted Mortality for Hospitals Not Included in the Reference Sample
David E. Clark, Edward L. Hannan, Stephen W. Raudenbush