Donald H. Taylor, Ph.D., assistant professor of public policy at Duke University, and colleagues authored the article, “What Length of Hospice Use Maximizes Reduction in Medical Expenditures Near Death in the US Medicare Program,” that appears in the June 2007 issue of Social Science and Medicine. The article details HCFO-sponsored research regarding the relationship between the length of hospice care and Medicare expenditures.
Jill R. Horwitz, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P., assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan, and Austin Nichols, Ph.D., M.P.P., of the Urban Institute, authored the article, “What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix.” The July 2007 paper appears in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper Series and examines HCFO-sponsored research regarding the provision of services and market share for non-profit, for-profit, and government-owned hospitals.
Current HCFO grantee publications and recent grant findings will be regularly featured in the results section of our Web site.
