Analysis of HHS Final Rules on Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment

Summarizes final rules for states and health insurance plans for minimizing adverse selection under federal healthcare reform and highlights changes from proposed rules. Outlines implications for states and plans, as well as outstanding issues

Analysis of HHS Proposed Rules on Reinsurance, Risk Corridors and Risk Adjustment

Offers questions and answers about rules for lessening the financial risk of health insurance issuers and exchanges under healthcare reform. Outlines steps for states and health plans, outstanding issues, and operational impact on states

Risk Adjustment and Reinsurance: A Work Plan for State Officials

Outlines the decisions and actions states need to take to implement the risk adjustment and reinsurance provisions of the 2010 health reform law, including risk adjustment model, reinsurance parameters, stakeholder engagement, and program administration

State of Vermont Health Care Financing Plan Beginning Calendar Year 2017 Analysis

This report, prepared for the Vermont Agency of Administration, details the costs and coverage of a single-payer system in Vermont, and explained that the state must develop new financing mechanisms that raise $1.6 billion to fund single-payer. It was produced in partnership with Wakely Consulting Group Inc. However, on December 17, 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin announced that now is not the right time to overhaul health care financing and delivery in Vermont

10Kin1day: A Bottom-Up Neuroimaging Initiative.

We organized 10Kin1day, a pop-up scientific event with the goal to bring together neuroimaging groups from around the world to jointly analyze 10,000+ existing MRI connectivity datasets during a 3-day workshop. In this report, we describe the motivation and principles of 10Kin1day, together with a public release of 8,000+ MRI connectome maps of the human brain

Results from quantitative PCR (qPCR) on fecal samples and cloacal and fecal float results from experimentally infected and wild caught northern bobwhites (<i>Colinus virginianus</i>).

<p>Results from quantitative PCR (qPCR) on fecal samples and cloacal and fecal float results from experimentally infected and wild caught northern bobwhites (<i>Colinus virginianus</i>).</p

DNA copy number for the ITS2 region of <i>Oxyspirura petrowi</i> as determined by quantitative PCR on fecal samples and the corresponding egg per gram counts as determined by fecal flotation.

<p>DNA copy number for the ITS2 region of <i>Oxyspirura petrowi</i> as determined by quantitative PCR on fecal samples and the corresponding egg per gram counts as determined by fecal flotation.</p

Standard curves from the duplex and single quantitative PCR reactions.

<p>Both curves were generated from standards (10⁶−10¹) run in triplicate. For the duplex reaction r² = 0.994 and the slope = -3.3 and for the single reaction the r² = 0.998 and the slope = -3.4.</p

Using visual direction in three-dimensional motion perception

The eyes receive slightly different views of the world, and the differences between their images (binocular disparity) are used to see depth. Several authors have suggested how the brain could exploit this information for three-dimensional (3D) motion perception, but here we consider a simpler strategy. Visual direction is the angle between the direction of an object and the direction that an observer faces. Here we describe human behavioral experiments in which observers use visual direction, rather than binocular information, to estimate an object's 3D motion even though this causes them to make systematic errors. This suggests that recent models of binocular 3D motion perception may not reflect the strategies that human observers actually use.</p