Medicaid programs increasingly finance competing, capitated managed care plans rather than administering fee-for-service (FFS) programs. We study how the transition from FFS to managed care affects highand low-cost infants (blacks and Hispanics, respectively). We find that blackHispanic disparities widen—e.g., black mortality and pre-term birth rates increase by 15% and 7%, respectively, while ...

The study compares racial differences in access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients under Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS). This study uses the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS) data set. The analysis includes Black and White Medicaid enrollees with HIV/AIDS in 1996. Logistic regression is used to ...

This study examines associations between caregivers' satisfaction with children's Medicaid-funded behavioral health care plans and the likelihood that children with severe emotional disturbance receive mental health services. Data are from a multisite study of managed care versus fee-for-service (FFS) settings. In multivariate logistic regression analyses controlling for demographic, environmen...

New strategies to control U.S. health spending growth are urgently needed. Although provider payment cuts are likely, cutting fee-for-service (FFS) payments will hurt quality and access. A more sensible approach would be to restructure the delivery system into organized networks of providers delivering reliable, evidence-based care. But restructuring will not occur without payment policy reform...

The carrying capacity of the French Frigate Shoals (FFS) region for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal was appraised using an updated version of the original FFS Ecopath model (Polovina 1984). Model parameters were updated using recent literature, and data from surveys of the seal population and its bottom-associated prey. Together they produced a static mass balance model for 1998 when the prey...

We study the inclusive hadrodroduction of D, D, D, and D s mesons at nextto-leading order in the parton model of quantum chromodynamics endowed with universal non-perturbative fragmentation functions (FFs) fitted to ee annihilation data from CERN LEP1. Working in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme, we resum the large logarithms through the evolution of the FFs and, at the same time,...

INTRODUCTION: Recent estimates suggest there are at least 25 million transgender people worldwide. Up to 0.9% of the US population is thought to express some form of gender dysphoria. Medical and surgical gender-confirmation has been proven to have a substantial impact on transgender patients’ physiologic and psychosocial outcomes along with improved quality of life. Yet, little is known about ...

Medicare beneficiary knowledge about fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare versus managed care alternatives (MCA) has been studied extensively. However, these efforts might be compromised by lack of familiarity with common Medicare terminology. We used qualitative methods to examine beneficiaries' familiarity with Medicare Programs (FFS and MCA) and terminology. Twenty-one indepth, semi-structured ben...

We propose a kinetic model to characterize the image sticking phenomenon under nonuniform electric field in fringe field switching (FFS) LCDs by taking material properties and device parameters into account. This model agrees well with the experimental results. We investigate the voltage and temperature effects of image sticking based on this model. The image sticking of FFS cells employing pos...

Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances competing, capitated health plans rather than using a fee-for-service (FFS) model. We study how highand low-cost infants (blacks and Hispanics, respectively) are affected by the transition from FFS to Medicaid managed care (MMC). We find that black-Hispanic infant health disparities widen—e.g., black mortality increases by 12% w...