March 2018 (Volume 96)

Original Investigation

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  Featured Article

  The Effect of Medicaid on Management of Depression: Evidence From the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

  Katherine Baicker, Heidi L. Allen, Bill J. Wright, Sarah L. Taubman, Amy N. Finkelstein

  This study takes advantage of Oregon’s 2008 Medicaid lottery to gauge the causal effects of Medicaid coverage on mental health care using a randomized-controlled design and drawing on primary and administrative data sources. Medicaid coverage was found to reduce the prevalence of undiagnosed depression by almost 50% and untreated depression by more than 60%. Read more

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  Transformation of the Health Care Industry: Curb Your Enthusiasm?

  Lawton Robert Burns, Mark V. Pauly

  Policymakers seek to transform the US health care system along two dimensions simultaneously—alternative payment models and new models of provider organization. How is the transformation going? Researchers found a low prevalence of provider risk payment models and slow movement toward new payment and organizational models—and that the impact of both on cost and quality is weak. Read more

• Legal Barriers to the Growth of Health Information Exchange—Boulders or Pebbles?

  Michelle M. Mello, Julia Adler-Milstein, Karen L. Ding, Lucia Savage

• The Role of HIPAA Omnibus Rules in Reducing the Frequency of Medical Data Breaches: Insights From an Empirical Study

  Niam Yaraghi, Ram D. Gopal

• Geographic Variation in Household and Catastrophic Health Spending in India: Assessing the Relative Importance of Villages, Districts, and States, 2011-2012

  Sanjay K. Mohanty, Rockli Kim, Pijush Kanti Khan, S.V. Subramanian