Colocating Health Services: A Way to Improve Coordination of Children's Health Care?

Based on a literature review and interviews, outlines the benefits, costs, and issues of pediatric practices' co-location with other providers and services. Examines strategies, structures, and levels of integration, as well as barriers to implementation

High and Rising Health Care Costs: Demystifying U.S. Health Care Spending

Reviews the data used to measure U.S. healthcare costs and examines long- and short-term trends, whether costs are too high, how they compare to those of other developed nations, and what factors are driving the growth. Includes policy implications

Freeport Union Free School District and Freeport Non-Teaching Unit (Custodial Unit), CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO

In the matter of the fact-finding between the Freeport Union Free School District, employer, and the Freeport Non-Teaching Unit (Custodial Unit), CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, union. PERB case no. M2010-313. Before: Eugene S. Ginsberg, fact finder

Efficiency and Quality: Controlling Cost Growth in Health Care Reform

Outlines options for slowing the growth of healthcare spending, including improving the Medicare fee schedule, payment for episodes of care, multi-provider episode payments, the tax treatment of private insurance, and comparative effectiveness research

The Fate of Former Companions to Hypervelocity Stars Originating at the Galactic Center

The hypervelocity star SDSS J090745.0+024507 in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy (Brown et al. 2005) most likely originated from the breakup of a binary star system by the central black hole, SgrA* (Hills 1988). We examine the fate of former binary companions to similar hypervelocity stars (HVSs) by simulating 600 different binary orbits around SgrA* with a direct N-body integration code. For some orbital parameters, the binary breakup process leads to HVSs with ejection velocities that are almost an order of magnitude larger than the velocity observed for SDSS J090745.0+024507. The former companion stars populate highly eccentric orbits which resemble the observed orbits for some of the stars nearest to SgrA*.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA