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  1. Commentary: Global Comparisons of Physician Associations

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, August 2021, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  2. Differences in Outpatient Dermatology Encounter Work Relative Value Units and Net Payments by Patient Race, Sex, and Age

    Article • JAMA Dermatology, April 2021, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  3. How Some Countries Control Spending: The Authors Reply

    Article • Health Affairs, April 2021, Health Affairs

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  4. Getting The Price Right: How Some Countries Control Spending In A Fee-For-Service System

    Article • Health Affairs, November 2020, Health Affairs

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  5. Fee‐for‐service payment is not the (main) problem

    Article • Health Services Research, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  6. Billing Codes Determine Lower Physician Income for Primary Care and Non-Procedural Specialties

    Article • Forum for Health Economics & Policy, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  7. Framing, Governance, and Partisanship: Putting Politics Front and Center in the Opioid Epidemic

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, December 2019, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  8. Regarding “Committee Representation and Medicare Reimbursements: An Examination of the Resource‐Based Relative Value Scale”

    Article • Health Services Research, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  9. How the American Medical Association's Rent-Seeking Strategy Compensated for Its Loss of Members

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, October 2018, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  10. No Permanent Fix: MACRA, MIPS, and the Politics of Physician Payment Reform

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, August 2018, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  11. Do Other Countries Have a Better Mix of Generalists and Specialists?

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, June 2018, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  12. The Price of Health Care: Why Is the United States an Outlier?

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, June 2018, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  13. Removing restrictions on nurse practitioners' scope of practice in New York State: Physicians' and nurse practitioners' perspectives

    Article • Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, June 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  14. Fixing Medical Prices

    Article • January 2016, Harvard University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  15. Leap of Faith — Medicare's New Physician Payment System

    Article • New England Journal of Medicine, September 2015, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  16. Learning From New York City

    Article • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, July 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  17. Human Resources in Health Care Systems: Reflecting on ‘Cross-National Comparisons of Human Resources for Health – what can we learn?’

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  18. Response

    Article • CHEST Journal, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  19. Commentary -- Payment Policy Disruption and Policy Drift

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, January 2015, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  20. Early Policy Responses to the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in the United States, 2006–2010

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  21. The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale and Physician Reimbursement Policy

    Article • CHEST Journal, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  22. Integration: the firm and the health care sector

    Article • Health Economics Policy and Law, April 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  23. Residential Segregation and the Survival of U.S. Urban Public Hospitals

    Article • Medical Care Research and Review, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  24. Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine: The United States, France and Japan. By Marc A. Rodwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 392p. $29.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  25. The Patient‐Centered Medical Home: A Future Standard for American Health Care?

    Article • Public Administration Review, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  26. Politics, health and health care: selected essays

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  27. Income Eligibility Thresholds, Premium Contributions, and Children's Coverage Outcomes: A Study of CHIP Expansions

    Article • Health Services Research, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  28. In Setting Doctors' Medicare Fees, CMS Almost Always Accepts The Relative Value Update Panel's Advice On Work Values

    Article • Health Affairs, May 2012, Health Affairs

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  29. Take‐Up of Public Insurance and Crowd‐Out of Private Insurance under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children

    Article • Health Services Research, April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  30. Perceptions of the Health System and Public Trust in Government in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from the World Health Surveys

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, February 2012, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  31. The Impact of Maternity Length-of-Stay Mandates on the Labor Market and Insurance Coverage

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  32. United States-Mexico cross-border health insurance initiatives: Salud Migrante and Medicare in Mexico

    Article • Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, January 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  33. High Physician Fees: The Author Replies

    Article • Health Affairs, December 2011, Health Affairs

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  34. Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children

    Article • December 2011, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  35. Higher Fees Paid To US Physicians Drive Higher Spending For Physician Services Compared To Other Countries

    Article • Health Affairs, September 2011, Health Affairs

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  36. Relative Affordability of Health Insurance Premiums under CHIP Expansion Programs and the ACA

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, July 2011, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  37. Civilized Medicine: Physicians and Health Care Reform

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, January 2011, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  38. A randomized experiment of issue framing and voter support of tax increases for health insurance expansion

    Article • Health Policy, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  39. Niche players in health policy: Medical specialty societies in Congress 1969–2002

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  40. A patient mobility framework that travels: European and United States–Mexican comparisons

    Article • Health Policy, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  41. Siren Song: Physicians, Congress, and Medicare Fees

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, March 2009, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  42. A Comparative Analysis of Mandated Benefit Laws, 1949–2002

    Article • Health Services Research, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  43. The California Cost and Coverage Model: Analyses of the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates for the California Legislature

    Article • Health Services Research, March 2006, Wiley

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  44. Why Some Market Reforms Lack Legitimacy in Health Care

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, December 2005, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  45. Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What are the Causes?

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, February 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  46. Is the Doctor In? The Evolving Role of Organized Medicine in Health Policy

    Article • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, April 2003, Duke University Press

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  47. Emigration of New Zealand and Australian physicians to the United States and the international flow of medical personnel

    Article • Health Policy, March 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  48. Book Review: Robert H. Blank, New Zealand Health Policy: A Comparative Study (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. ix, 166, $34.95.

    Article • Political Science, July 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  49. Introduction to health care reform in New Zealand

    Article • Health Policy, July 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen

  50. New Zealand health care: a background

    Article • Health Policy, July 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Miriam J. Laugesen