EBRI December 2004 Policy Forum #56
Controlling Costs and Improving Quality for Retirees: Can It Improve the Health System Overall?
- Tracking Health Care Costs: First Half of 2004 - Paul B. Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System Change
- Medicare Outlook - Paul Fronstin, Employee Benefit Research Institute
- How Information Technology Can Be Used to Improve Costs and Quality - Robert M. Crane, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
- Systematic Reviews of Drugs Within Classes: Searching for Health Care Value - Mark Gibson, Milbank Memorial Fund and Center for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health and Science University
- The Role of Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations in Controlling Costs and Improving Quality for Retirees - Bruce McPherson, Alliance for Advancing Nonprofit Healthcare
- Controlling Costs & Improving Quality: Policy Implications/Possible Solutions - Stephen C. Schoenbaum, The Commonwealth Fund
Publications:
February 2005 #278 - "Controlling Health Costs and Improving Health Care Quality for Retirees"-- Executive Summary of the February 2005 EBRI Issue Brief developed from materials presented at the December 2, 2004, policy forum.