Where Payers and Providers Overlap: Navigating the Edge (TH312)

How the Affordable Care Act will strengthen primary care and benefit patients, providers, and payers.

Although primary care is fundamental to health system performance, the United States has undervalued and underinvested in primary care for decades. This brief describes how the Affordable Care Act will begin to address the neglect of America's primary care system and, wherever possible, estimates the potential impact these efforts will have on patients, providers, and payers. The health reform ...

The economics of Clostridium difficile-associated disease for providers and payers.

Overlap Between Asthma and COPD: Where the Two Diseases Converge

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are traditionally recognized as distinct diseases, with some clearly separate characteristic. Asthma originates in childhood, is associated with allergies and eosinophils, and is best treated by targeting inflammation, whereas COPD occurs in adults who smoke, involves neutrophils, and is best treated with bronchodilators and the removal of...

Does Competition Improve Quality? The Case of Nursing Homes Where Public and Private Payers Coexist

Competition plays an ambiguous role in markets for credence goods. We examine the nursing home industry and find a U-shaped relationship between competition and quality where private and public patients coexist, and a monotonic relationship where the public segment dominates. These observations are consistent with a repeated game model that highlights two opposing effects: the reputation buildi...

Mobility edge and locality of the overlap-Dirac operator with and without dynamical overlap fermions

JLQCD Collaboration: N. Yamada∗a,b† , S. Aokic,d , H. Fukayae, S. Hashimotoa,b, K-I. Ishikawa f , K. Kanayac, T. Kanekoa,b, H. Matsufurua, M. Okamotoa, T. Onogig aHigh Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801,Japan bSchool of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan cGraduate School of Pure and Appl...