To extend our previous research by determining whether, and how, the impact of managed care (MC) on substance abuse treatment (SAT) services differs by facility ownership. Principal Findings. We find that the impact of MC on SAT service offerings differs in magnitude and direction by facility ownership.

Objective To compare interactive fixed effects (IFE) and generalized synthetic control (GSC) methods to methods prevalent in health policy evaluation and re‐evaluate the impact of the hip fracture best practice tariffs introduced for hospitals in England in 2010.

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Objective To estimate the effects of financial access and other individual characteristics on the likelihood that a woman pursues infertility treatment and the choice of treatment type.

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Objective To develop an enriched set of core competencies for health services and policy research doctoral training that will help graduates maximize their impact across a range of academic and nonacademic work environments and roles.

Objective To examine the associations between medical marijuana policies and opioid‐related hospitalizations and emergency department visits.

Objective To compare different methods of indexing health care service prices for the commercially insured population across geographic markets.

Objective In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services replaced fee‐for‐service reimbursement for erythropoiesis stimulating agents with a fixed‐sum bundled payment for all dialysis‐related care and pay‐for‐performance incentives to discourage maintaining patients' hematocrits above 36 percent.

Objective To describe, qualitatively and quantitatively, the impact of a review by multiple institutional review boards (IRBs) on the conduct of a multisite observational health services research study.