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Kenneth Thorpe

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Kenneth E Thorpe; Meredith Philyaw
The medicalization of chronic disease and costs.
Kenneth E Thorpe
Analysis & commentary: The Affordable Care Act lays the groundwork for a national diabetes prevention and treatment strategy.
Kenneth E Thorpe; Zhou Yang
Enrolling people with prediabetes ages 60-64 in a proven weight loss program could save Medicare $7 billion or more.

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2012: Kenneth E Thorpe; Meredith Philyaw
The medicalization of chronic disease and costs.
Annual review of public health 2012;33():409-23.
2012: Kenneth E Thorpe
Analysis & commentary: The Affordable Care Act lays the groundwork for a national diabetes prevention and treatment strategy.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012;31(1):61-6.
2011: Kenneth E Thorpe; Zhou Yang
Enrolling people with prediabetes ages 60-64 in a proven weight loss program could save Medicare $7 billion or more.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011;30(9):1673-9.
2011: Adam Atherly; Kenneth E Thorpe
Analysis of the treatment effect of Healthways' Medicare Health Support Phase 1 Pilot on Medicare costs.
Population health management 2011;14 Suppl 1():S23-8.
2010: Kenneth E Thorpe; Meredith Philyaw
Impact of health care reform on medicare and dual medicare-medicaid beneficiaries.
Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 2010;16(6):584-7.
2010: David H Howard; Kenneth E Thorpe; Susan H Busch
Understanding recent increases in chronic disease treatment rates: more disease or more detection?
Health economics, policy, and law 2010;5(4):411-35.
2010: Kenneth E Thorpe; Lydia L Ogden
Analysis & commentary. The foundation that health reform lays for improved payment, care coordination, and prevention.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010;29(6):1183-7.
2010: Kenneth E Thorpe; Lydia L Ogden; Katya Galactionova
Chronic conditions account for rise in Medicare spending from 1987 to 2006.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010;29(4):718-24.
2010: Kenneth E Thorpe
Prevention takes center stage.
North Carolina medical journal 2010;71(1):48-51.
2009: David H Howard; Lisa C Richardson; Kenneth E Thorpe
Cancer screening and age in the United States and Europe.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009;28(6):1838-47.
2008: Kenneth E Thorpe
Medication access and vulnerable populations: what's changing. Introduction.
The American journal of managed care 2008;14(11 Suppl):SP3-4.
2008: Kenneth E Thorpe
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.
The West Virginia medical journal 2008;104(5):8.
2008: Kenneth E Thorpe
Emerging health care reform issues in the US presidential debate.
Health economics, policy, and law 2008;3(Pt 1):1-5.
2007: Kenneth E Thorpe
Reframing the debate over health care reform: the role of system performance and affordability.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2007;26(6):1560-2.
2007: Kenneth E Thorpe
Vermont's Catamount Health: a roadmap for health care reform?
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2007;26(6):w703-5.
2007: Kenneth E Thorpe; David H Howard; Katya Galactionova
Differences in disease prevalence as a source of the U.S.-European health care spending gap.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2007;26(6):w678-86.
2006: Kenneth E Thorpe
Factors accounting for the rise in health-care spending in the United States: the role of rising disease prevalence and treatment intensity.
Public health 2006;120(11):1002-7.
2006: Curtis S Florence; Adam Atherly; Kenneth E Thorpe
Will choice-based reform work for Medicare? Evidence from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Health services research 2006;41(5):1741-61.
2006: Kenneth E Thorpe; David H Howard
The rise in spending among Medicare beneficiaries: the role of chronic disease prevalence and changes in treatment intensity.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2006;25(5):w378-88.
2006: Kenneth E Thorpe
Cost sharing, caps on benefits, and the chronically ill--a policy mismatch.
The New England journal of medicine 2006;354(22):2385-6.
2006: Steven D Culler; Adam Atherly; Sandra Walczak; Anne Davis; Jonathan N Hawley; Kimberly Rask; Vi Naylor; Kenneth E Thorpe
Urban-rural differences in the availability of hospital information technology applications: a survey of Georgia hospitals.
The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association 2006;22(3):242-7.
2006: David H Howard; Steven D Culler; Benjamin G Druss; Kenneth E Thorpe
The relationship between ex ante mortality risk and end-of-life medical costs.
Applied health economics and health policy 2006;5(1):37-44.
2005: Kenneth E Thorpe
The rise in health care spending and what to do about it.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2005;24(6):1436-45.
2005: Cherry Glied; Linda Bilheimer; Judith Feder; Len Nichols; Kenneth E Thorpe; Timothy Westmoreland
Health policy roundtable--policy by numbers: the role of budget estimates and scoring in health care reform.
Health services research 2005;40(2):347-60.
2005: Adam Atherly; Curtis S Florence; Kenneth E Thorpe
Health plan switching among members of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2005;42(3):255-65.
2005: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence; David H Howard; Peter J Joski
The rising prevalence of treated disease: effects on private health insurance spending.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2005;Suppl Web Exclusives():W5-317-W5-325.
2004: Kenneth E Thorpe
Protecting the uninsured.
The New England journal of medicine 2004;351(15):1479-81.
2004: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence; David H Howard; Peter J Joski
The impact of obesity on rising medical spending.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004;Suppl Web Exclusives():W4-480-6.
2004: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence; Peter J Joski
Which medical conditions account for the rise in health care spending?
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004;Suppl Web Exclusives():W4-437-45.
2004: E Kathleen Adams; Kenneth E Thorpe; Edmund R Becker; Peter J Joski; Jennifer Flome
Colorectal cancer screening, 1997-1999: role of income, insurance and policy.
Preventive medicine 2004;38(5):551-7.
2004: David H Howard; Noelle-Angelique Molinari; Kenneth E Thorpe
National estimates of medical costs incurred by nonelderly cancer patients.
Cancer 2004;100(5):883-91.
2004: Kenneth E Thorpe
The medical malpractice 'crisis': recent trends and the impact of state tort reforms.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004;Suppl Web Exclusives():W4-20-30.
2003: David Shactman; Stuart Altman; Efrat Eilat; Kenneth E Thorpe; Michael Doonan
The outlook for hospital spending.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2003;22(6):12-26.
2003: E Kathleen Adams; Curtis S Florence; Kenneth E Thorpe; Edmund R Becker; Peter J Joski
Preventive care: female cancer screening, 1996-2000.
American journal of preventive medicine 2003;25(4):301-7.
2003: Curtis S Florence; Kenneth E Thorpe
How does the employer contribution for the federal employees health benefits program influence plan selection?
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2003;22(2):211-8.
2003: Kenneth E Thorpe; David H Howard
Health insurance and spending among cancer patients.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2003;Suppl Web Exclusives():W3-189-98.
2003: Kenneth E Thorpe
Health policy expert discusses PHA, national patient safety efforts.
GHA today 2003;47(1):1, 4-6.
2002: Robert Restuccia; Marvin Singleton; Kenneth E Thorpe
1Q[3a]. Are CON laws relevant again as niche facilities multiply?
Hospitals & health networks / AHA 2002;76(8):26.
2002: Kenneth E Thorpe; Adam Atherly
Medicare+Choice: current role and near-term prospects.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002;Suppl Web Exclusives():W242-52.
2002: Kenneth E Thorpe
Hospital deregulation in New York.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002;21(2):301-2; author reply 303.
2002: Roger Feldman; Kenneth E Thorpe; Bradley Gray
Policy watch: the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan.
The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the American Economic Association 2002;16(2):207-17.
2001: Kenneth E Thorpe; E E Seiber; Curtis S Florence
The impact of HMOs on hospital-based uncompensated care.
Journal of health politics, policy and law 2001;26(3):543-55.
2001: Kenneth E Thorpe; Adam Atherly
Reforming Medicare: impacts on federal spending and choice of health plans.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2001;Suppl Web Exclusives():W51-64.
2000: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence; E E Seiber
Hospital conversions, margins, and the provision of uncompensated care.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2000;19(6):187-94.
1999: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence; B Gray
Market incentives, plan choice, and price increases.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1999;18(6):194-202.
1999: Kenneth E Thorpe
Managed care as victim or villain?
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1999;24(5):949-56.
1999: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence
Covering uninsured children and their parents: estimated costs and number of newly insured.
Medical care research and review : MCRR 1999;56(2):197-214; discussion 215-9.
1999: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence
Why are workers uninsured? Employer-sponsored health insurance in 1997.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1999;18(2):213-8.
1999: Kenneth E Thorpe
Matching health policy with data: data and analytic requirements for federal policymakers.
Health care financing review 1999;21(2):15-23.
1998: Kenneth E Thorpe; Curtis S Florence
Health insurance among children: the role of expanded Medicaid coverage.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1998;35(4):369-79.
1997: Kenneth E Thorpe
Incremental strategies for providing health insurance for the uninsured. Projected federal costs and number of newly insured.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1997;278(4):329-33.
1997: Kenneth E Thorpe
Incremental approaches to covering uninsured children: design and policy issues.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1997;16(4):64-78.
1997: Sally C Stearns; Rebecca T Slifkin; Kenneth E Thorpe; Thomas A Mroz
The structure and experience of state risk pools: 1988-1994.
Medical care research and review : MCRR 1997;54(2):223-38.
1997: Kenneth E Thorpe
The health system in transition: care, cost, and coverage.
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1997;22(2):339-61.
1995: Kenneth E Thorpe
A call for health services researchers.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1995;14(1):63-5.
1994: Deborah W Garnick; A M Hendricks; J D Dulski; Kenneth E Thorpe; Constance M Horgan
Characteristics of private-sector managed care for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
Hospital & community psychiatry 1994;45(12):1201-5.
1993: Thomas Rice; Kenneth E Thorpe
Income-related cost sharing in health insurance.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1993;12(1):21-39.
1993: Jack Zwanziger; G M Anderson; S G Haber; Kenneth E Thorpe; Joseph P Newhouse
Comparison of hospital costs in California, New York, and Canada.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1993;12(2):130-9.
1993: Kenneth E Thorpe
The American states and Canada: a comparative analysis of health care spending.
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1993;18(2):477-89.
1993: Deborah W Garnick; A M Hendricks; Kenneth E Thorpe; Joseph P Newhouse; Karen Donelan; Robert J Blendon
How well do Americans understand their health coverage?
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1993;12(3):204-12.
1992: S G Haber; Jack Zwanziger; J G Anderson; Kenneth E Thorpe; Joseph P Newhouse
Hospital expenditures in the United States and Canada: do hospital worker wages explain the differences?
Journal of health economics 1992;11(4):453-65.
1992: Kenneth E Thorpe
The best of both worlds: merging competition and regulation.
The Journal of American health policy 1992;2(4):20-4.
1992: Robert J Blendon; Karen Donelan; C V Lukas; Kenneth E Thorpe; M Frankel; R Bass; H Taylor
The uninsured and the debate over the repeal of the Massachusetts universal health care law.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1992;267(8):1113-7.
1992: Kenneth E Thorpe; A Hendricks; Deborah W Garnick; Karen Donelan; Joseph P Newhouse
Reducing the number of uninsured by subsidizing employment-based health insurance. Results from a pilot study.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1992;267(7):945-8.
1992: Kenneth E Thorpe
Expanding employment-based health insurance: is small group reform the answer?
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1992;29(2):128-36.
1992: P B Ginsburg; Kenneth E Thorpe
Can all-payer rate setting and the competitive strategy coexist?
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1992;11(2):73-86.
1992: Kenneth E Thorpe
Inside the black box of administrative costs.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 1992;11(2):41-55.
1992: E Capilouto; Kenneth E Thorpe; T E Dailey
How restrictive are Medicaid's categorical eligibility requirements? A look at nine Southern states.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1992;29(4):451-6.
1991: Kenneth E Thorpe
The national health insurance conundrum: shifting paradigms and potential solutions.
The Journal of American health policy 1991;1(1):17-22.
1991: Troyen A Brennan; Liesi E Hebert; N Laird; A Lawthers; Kenneth E Thorpe; Lucian L Leape; AR Localio; Stuart R Lipsitz; Joseph P Newhouse; P C Weiler
Hospital characteristics associated with adverse events and substandard care.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1991;265(24):3265-9.
1991: Kenneth E Thorpe; CHRISTINE SPENCER
How do uncompensated care pools affect the level and type of care? Results from New York State.
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1991;16(2):363-81.
1991: Arnold M Epstein; J Bogen; P Dreyer; Kenneth E Thorpe
Trends in length of stay and rates of readmission in Massachusetts: implications for monitoring quality of care.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1991;28(1):19-28.
1991: Kenneth E Thorpe; P J Gertler; P Goldman
The resource utilization group system: its effect on nursing home case mix and costs.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1991;28(4):357-65.
1990: Kenneth E Thorpe; C E Phelps
Regulatory intensity and hospital cost growth.
Journal of health economics 1990;9(2):143-66.
1990: Kenneth E Thorpe
House staff supervision and working hours. Implications of regulatory change in New York State.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1990;263(23):3177-81.
1990: Kenneth E Thorpe
The current hospital crisis in New York City and policy options for resolving it.
New York state journal of medicine 1990;90(5):247-52.
1990: H J Makadon; George R Seage; Kenneth E Thorpe; Harvey V Fineberg
Paying the medical cost of the HIV epidemic: a review of policy options.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes 1990;3(2):123-33.
1989: Kenneth E Thorpe; Joanna E Siegel
Covering the uninsured. Interactions among public and private sector strategies.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1989;262(15):2114-8.
1989: H Hiatt; B A Barnes; Troyen A Brennan; N Laird; A G Lawthers; Lucian L Leape; AR Localio; Joseph P Newhouse; L M Peterson; Kenneth E Thorpe
A study of medical injury and medical malpractice.
The New England journal of medicine 1989;321(7):480-4.
1989: Kenneth E Thorpe; Joanna E Siegel; T Dailey
Including the poor: the fiscal impacts of Medicaid expansion.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1989;261(7):1003-7.
1989: Kenneth E Thorpe
Costs and distributional impacts of employer health insurance mandates and Medicaid expansion.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1989;26(3):335-44.
1988: Kenneth E Thorpe
Why are urban hospital costs so high? The relative importance of patient source of admission, teaching, competition, and case mix.
Health services research 1988;22(6):821-36.
1988: Kenneth E Thorpe; S Cretin; E B Keeler
Are the diagnosis-related group case weights compressed?
Health care financing review 1988;10(2):37-46.
1988: Kenneth E Thorpe
Uncompensated care pools and care to the uninsured: lessons from the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1988;25(3):344-53.
1988: Kenneth E Thorpe
The use of regression analysis to determine hospital payment: the case of Medicare's indirect teaching adjustment.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1988;25(2):219-31.
1987: Kenneth E Thorpe
Does all-payer rate setting work? The case of the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology.
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1987;12(3):391-408.
1987: Kenneth E Thorpe; C Brecher
Improved access to care for the uninsured poor in large cities: do public hospitals make a difference?
Journal of health politics, policy and law 1987;12(2):313-24.
1987: Kenneth E Thorpe
The distributional implications of using relative prices in DRG payment systems.
Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 1987;24(1):85-95.