Grantees in the News

HCFO Research on Retail Clinics Highlighted in Multiple Media Outlets

Publication Date: 
November 23, 2011

HCFO-funded work led by Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H., M.S. has been featured in multiple media outlets following recent publication in the American Journal of Managed Care. Mehrotra found that the use of retail clinics increased dramatically among a commercially insured population between 2007 and 2009. This study's findings were reported in: 

HCFO-Funded Research Featured in Kaiser Health News

Publication Date: 
November 18, 2011

 HCFO-funded research led by Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., was highlighted in Kaiser Health News.

HCFO-Funded Research Highlighted in Medscape News

Publication Date: 
November 11, 2011

Recently published HCFO-funded research by Neal Wallace, Ph.D., was featured in Medscape News.

HCFO Grantee Blogs About Medicare Hospice Benefit

Publication Date: 
October 20, 2011

HCFO grantee Donald Taylor, Duke University, blogs in The Incidental Economist about the Medicare hospice benefit, just one of the challenges facing the Super Committee and how its decisions are likely to impact on the ACA. Taylor’s HCFO-funded work and other research on the cost and quality of hospice and palliative care address key policy issues.

HCFO-Funded Research Featured in NBER Working Paper

Publication Date: 
October 19, 2011

HCFO-funded research led by Mark Duggan, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland, was highlighted in his NBER working paper, "Has the Shift Toward Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates" (subscription required). The national study described in the paper is an outgrowth of Duggan's earlier HCFO project.

HCFO-Funded Work Featured on Kaiser Health News Blog

Publication Date: 
October 10, 2011

HCFO grantee Steve Zuckerman, Ph.D., Urban Institute, presented findings from his article, "Undocumented Immigrants, Left Out of Health Reform, Likely to Continue to Grow as Share of the Uninsured," at a recent Health Affairs Briefing.

HCFO Research Highlighted in Associated Press Article

Publication Date: 
October 10, 2011

HCFO-funded work led by Renee Hsia, M.D., and Yu-Chu Shen, Ph.D., was highlighted in a recent Associated Press article. The article, "Study: 69M Must Travel Longer to a Trauma Center" details the study's findings on decreased trauma center access for vulnerable populations.

HCFO Grantees Present at October Health Affairs Briefing

Publication Date: 
October 10, 2011

On October 6, 2011, Health Affairs held a briefing to unveil its October 2011 issue, "Agenda for Fighting Disparities." The issue featured two articles from HCFO-funded studies and their authors spoke at the briefing.

HCFO-Funded Work Highlighted on MDLinx.com

Publication Date: 
October 3, 2011

HCFO-funded research led by Patricia Ketsche, Ph.D., of Georgia State University, and E. Kathleen Adams, Ph.D., of Emory University, was recently highlighted on the website MDLinx.com. The article, "Lower Income Families Pay a Higher Share of Income Toward National Health Care Spending Than High Income Families Do" detailed findings from Dr. Ketsche and Dr.

HCFO Research Featured in RWJF Advances Newsletter

Publication Date: 
October 3, 2011

HCFO-funded research led by Patricia Ketsche, Ph.D., of Georgia State University, and E. Kathleen Adams, Ph.D., of Emory University, was highlighted in the September 2011 issue of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Advances Newsletter. The newsletter featured Dr. Ketsche and Dr.

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