Kenneth E. Thorpe
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kenneth E. Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy at Emory University, the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Rollins School of Public Health, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services . He is also the Executive Director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and the Emory Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions.
Kenneth E. Thorpe's Published Works
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- The impact of obesity on rising medical spending. (2004) (435)
- The rise in spending among Medicare beneficiaries: the role of chronic disease prevalence and changes in treatment intensity. (2006) (301)
- Hospital characteristics associated with adverse events and substandard care. (1991) (267)
- Chronic conditions account for rise in Medicare spending from 1987 to 2006. (2010) (205)
- Which medical conditions account for the rise in health care spending? (2004) (202)
- A study of medical injury and medical malpractice. (1989) (180)
- The rise in health care spending and what to do about it. (2005) (166)
- The medical malpractice 'crisis': recent trends and the impact of state tort reforms. (2004) (153)
- Antibiotic-Resistant Infection Treatment Costs Have Doubled Since 2002, Now Exceeding $2 Billion Annually. (2018) (146)
- House staff supervision and working hours. Implications of regulatory change in New York State. (1990) (91)
- Health insurance and spending among cancer patients. (2003) (89)
- Factors accounting for the rise in health-care spending in the United States: the role of rising disease prevalence and treatment intensity. (2006) (83)
- Hospital conversions, margins, and the provision of uncompensated care. (2000) (76)
- The rising prevalence of treated disease: effects on private health insurance spending. (2005) (72)
- Differences in disease prevalence as a source of the U.S.-European health care spending gap. (2007) (71)
- Preventive care: female cancer screening, 1996-2000. (2003) (70)
- THE SOCIAL ROLE OF NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: HOSPITAL PROVISION OF CHARITY CARE (1991) (57)
- The medicalization of chronic disease and costs. (2012) (49)
- Inside the black box of administrative costs. (1992) (49)
- Why are workers uninsured? Employer-sponsored health insurance in 1997. (1999) (49)
- Reducing the number of uninsured by subsidizing employment-based health insurance. Results from a pilot study. (1992) (48)
- Why are urban hospital costs so high? The relative importance of patient source of admission, teaching, competition, and case mix. (1988) (45)
- How well do Americans understand their health coverage? (1993) (45)
- Analysis & commentary. The foundation that health reform lays for improved payment, care coordination, and prevention. (2010) (43)
- National estimates of medical costs incurred by nonelderly cancer patients (2004) (43)
- Enrolling people with prediabetes ages 60-64 in a proven weight loss program could save Medicare $7 billion or more. (2011) (40)
- Colorectal cancer screening, 1997-1999: role of income, insurance and policy. (2004) (40)
- The outlook for hospital spending. (2003) (37)
- The Impact of HMOs on Hospital-Based Uncompensated Care (2001) (35)
- Improved access to care for the uninsured poor in large cities: do public hospitals make a difference? (1987) (35)
- Health insurance among children: the role of expanded Medicaid coverage. (1998) (34)
- Including the poor: the fiscal impacts of Medicaid expansion. (1989) (34)
- Treated disease prevalence and spending per treated case drove most of the growth in health care spending in 1987-2009. (2013) (34)
- Prevalence And Spending Associated With Patients Who Have A Behavioral Health Disorder And Other Conditions. (2017) (31)
- Cancer screening and age in the United States and Europe. (2009) (29)
- Urban-rural differences in the availability of hospital information technology applications: a survey of Georgia hospitals. (2006) (27)
- The incremental cost of infections associated with multidrug-resistant organisms in the inpatient hospital setting-A national estimate. (2019) (27)
- Health Plan Switching among Members of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (2005) (26)
- Income-related cost sharing in health insurance. (1993) (25)
- The use of regression analysis to determine hospital payment: the case of Medicare's indirect teaching adjustment. (1988) (25)
- Can all-payer rate setting and the competitive strategy coexist? (1992) (24)
- The Role of Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Improved Treatment and Detection in Accounting for the Rise in Healthcare Spending Between 1987 and 2011 (2015) (24)
- Medicare+Choice: current role and near-term prospects. (2002) (24)
- The health system in transition: care, cost, and coverage. (1997) (23)
- Comparison of hospital costs in California, New York, and Canada. (1993) (23)
- Covering Uninsured Children and their Parents: Estimated Costs and Number of Newly Insured (1999) (22)
- Characteristics of private-sector managed care for mental health and substance abuse treatment. (1994) (22)
- The resource utilization group system: its effect on nursing home case mix and costs. (1991) (22)
- Cost sharing, caps on benefits, and the chronically ill--a policy mismatch. (2006) (21)
- Regulatory intensity and hospital cost growth. (1990) (20)
- Does all-payer rate setting work? The case of the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology. (1987) (20)
- Out-Of-Pocket Prescription Costs Under A Typical Silver Plan Are Twice As High As They Are In The Average Employer Plan. (2015) (19)
- How do uncompensated care pools affect the level and type of care? Results from New York State. (1991) (19)
- The impact of weight loss among seniors on Medicare spending (2013) (19)
- Understanding recent increases in chronic disease treatment rates: more disease or more detection? (2010) (18)
- Reforming the health care system. (2005) (18)
- Protecting the uninsured. (2004) (17)
- Will choice-based reform work for Medicare? Evidence from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (2006) (16)
- Are the diagnosis-related group case weights compressed? (1988) (15)
- Paying the medical cost of the HIV epidemic: a review of policy options. (1990) (15)
- Incremental strategies for providing health insurance for the uninsured. Projected federal costs and number of newly insured. (1997) (15)
- How does the employer contribution for the federal employees health benefits program influence plan selection? (2003) (15)
- Hospital expenditures in the United States and Canada: do hospital worker wages explain the differences? (1992) (15)
- Analysis of the treatment effect of Healthways' Medicare Health Support Phase 1 Pilot on Medicare costs. (2011) (14)
- Policy watch: the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. (2002) (14)
- Newspaper Groups: Economies of Scale, Tax Laws, and Merger Incentives (1981) (14)
- Managed Care as Victim or Villain? (1999) (13)
- I. Special Report: Medical Savings Accounts: Design And Policy Issues (1995) (13)
- The Effect of Obesity and Chronic Conditions on Medicare Spending, 1987–2011 (2015) (13)
- Analysis & commentary: The Affordable Care Act lays the groundwork for a national diabetes prevention and treatment strategy. (2012) (12)
- Reframing the debate over health care reform: the role of system performance and affordability. (2007) (11)
- Covering the uninsured. Interactions among public and private sector strategies. (1989) (11)
- Incremental approaches to covering uninsured children: design and policy issues. (1997) (11)
- Reforming Medicare: impacts on federal spending and choice of health plans. (2001) (10)
- The uninsured and the debate over the repeal of the Massachusetts universal health care law. (1992) (9)
- The relationship between ex ante mortality risk and end-of-life medical costs (2006) (9)
- Impact of health care reform on medicare and dual medicare-medicaid beneficiaries. (2010) (8)
- Market incentives, plan choice, and price increases. (1999) (8)
- The American states and Canada: a comparative analysis of health care spending. (1993) (8)
- The Structure and Experience of State Risk Pools: 1988-1994 (1997) (7)
- The distributional implications of using relative prices in DRG payment systems. (1987) (6)
- Impact of a Statewide Reporting System on Medication Error Reduction (2006) (5)
- Chronic disease management and prevention in the US: the missing links in health care reform. (2009) (5)
- Vermont's Catamount Health: a roadmap for health care reform? (2007) (4)
- Team approach to care of chronic conditions is key to long-term health system fix. Interviewwd by Lois A Bowers. (2013) (3)
- Economic Incentives to Merge: Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures Committee on Ways and Means, (1982) (3)
- The current hospital crisis in New York City and policy options for resolving it. (1990) (3)
- Uncompensated care pools and care to the uninsured: lessons from the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology. (1988) (3)
- Perspectives: A Call for Health Services Researchers (1995) (3)
- Racial trends in clinical preventive services use, chronic disease prevalence, and lack of insurance before and after the Affordable Care Act. (2022) (3)
- Association of Social Service Spending, Environmental Quality, and Health Behaviors on Health Outcomes. (2018) (3)
- A call for health services researchers. (1995) (2)
- Weight Loss-Associated Decreases in Medical Care Expenditures for Commercially Insured Patients With Chronic Conditions (2021) (2)
- Costs and distributional impacts of employer health insurance mandates and Medicaid expansion. (1989) (2)
- Strategies for Delivering Value-Based Care: Do Care Management Practices Improve Hospital Performance? (2019) (2)
- Matching Health Policy with Data: Data and Analytic Requirements for Federal Policymakers (1999) (2)
- Expanding employment-based health insurance: is small group reform the answer? (1992) (2)
- Health policy roundtable--policy by numbers: the role of budget estimates and scoring in health care reform. (2005) (1)
- Prevention takes center stage. (2010) (1)
- SARS-CoV-2 Outcomes: The Role of Patient Characteristics and Chronic Disease Comorbidities. (2021) (1)
- The Medicare Advantage Experience : Lessons for Reform to Original Medicare (2012) (1)
- The Multi-Billion Dollar Drug-Sensitive Spending Opportunity (2018) (1)
- Book Review Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results By Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. 506 pp. Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. $35. 978-1-59139-778-6 (2007) (1)
- HOUSE STAFF SUPERVISION AND WORKING HOURS. REPLY (1990) (1)
- Trends The Medical Malpractice ‘ Crisis ’ : Recent Trends And The Impact Of State Tort Reforms Do recent events constitute a crisis or merely the workings of the insurance cycle ? (2004) (1)
- Why Are Workers Uninsured?ed Health Insurance In 1997 (1999) (1)
- Book Review Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System By David M. Cutler. 158 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. $25. 0-19-516042-8 (2004) (1)
- Market Structure and Plan Characteristics in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (2006) (1)
- The New Media and the Demand for Studio Production Facilities (1981) (1)
- A Universal Health Care Plan for Missouri (2003) (0)
- Prevention And Treatment Strategy The Affordable Care Act Lays The Groundwork For A National Diabetes (2012) (0)
- Health Affairs Selection ? Employees Health Benefits Program Influence Plan How Does The Employer Contribution For The Federal (2003) (0)
- Rising Medicare Costs: The Authors Respond (2006) (0)
- The Role of the National Institutes of Health Funding for Shaping the Prevention Agenda: The Case of the Diabetes Prevention Program (2012) (0)
- Medication access and vulnerable populations: what's changing. Introduction. (2008) (0)
- Back to the Future or Forward to the Past ? The Near-Term Outlook For Private Health Insurance Spending (1998) (0)
- The best of both worlds: merging competition and regulation. (1992) (0)
- Health Affairs They Are In The Average Employer Plan Out-Of-Pocket Prescription Costs Under A Typical Silver Plan Are Twice As High As (2015) (0)
- Books Received (2001) (0)
- Coordinated End-of-Life Care Improves Wellbeing and Produces Cost Savings (2009) (0)
- Market Incentives, Plan Choice, And Price (1999) (0)
- Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: The Authors Reply. (2018) (0)
- Hospital deregulation in New York. (2002) (0)
- Limiting Medicaid access to accelerated approval drugs: costs and consequences. (2021) (0)
- The national health insurance conundrum: shifting paradigms and potential solutions. (1991) (0)
- Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails (review) (1999) (0)
- Authors’ Reply to Gandjour: “The Role of Chronic Disease, Obesity, and Improved Treatment and Detection in Accounting for the Rise in Healthcare Spending Between 1987 and 2011” (2016) (0)
- Impact of Health Care Reform on Medicare and Dual MedicareYMedicaid Beneficiaries (2010) (0)
- Health policy expert discusses PHA, national patient safety efforts. (2003) (0)
- Response of Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD to R. Austin Wallace, open letter to Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, July/August 2008 issue of the WV Medical Journal. (2008) (0)
- Evaluation of vestibular function during titration of intratympanic gentamicin for unilateral Meniere's disease (1996) (0)
- Emerging health care reform issues in the US presidential debate (2008) (0)
- Books Received (1990) (0)
- Perspective Reframing The Debate Over Health Care Reform: The Role Of System Performance And Affordability The focus needs to be on improving the system for all Americans, in addition to covering those who are left out. (2007) (0)
- How restrictive are Medicaid's categorical eligibility requirements? A look at nine Southern states. (1992) (0)
- It is Not Just the Prices! The Role of Chronic Disease in Accounting for Higher Health Care Spending in the United States (2021) (0)
- Books received (1993) (0)
- MarketW atch How Does The Employer Contribution For The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Influence Plan Selection? The design of competitive health reforms involves a trade-off between controlling costs and reducing risk segmentation. (2003) (0)
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