OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Affairs is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Medicare, COVID-19, And More	178
Costly Barriers: A Student’s Struggle With Medicaid Access	133
Availability Of Adult Dental Plans In The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, 2016–23	111
Cultivating Vital Conditions For Perinatal Well-Being And A Sustained Commitment To Reproductive Justice	109
The Indian Health Service Is Associated With Higher-Quality Perinatal Care For American Indian And Alaska Native People	100
Empowering A New Kind Of Research Team To Study Substance Use	89
Trauma Center Hospitals Charged Higher Prices For Some Nontrauma Care Than Non–Trauma Center Hospitals, 2012–18	86
Food Insufficiency Increased After The Expiration Of COVID-19 Emergency Allotments For SNAP Benefits In 2023	84
The Effect Of Labor Unions On Nursing Home Compliance With OSHA’s Workplace Injury And Illness Reporting Requirement	73
Health Insurance Coverage Projections For The US Population And Sources Of Coverage, By Age, 2024–34	73
Adopting Weight-Based Dosing With Pharmacy-Level Stewardship Strategies Could Reduce Cancer Drug Spending By Millions	67
Structural Inequities In The Adoption Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Services By US Hospitals, 2000–20	62
The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Health Of Incarcerated Older Adults In California State Prisons	61
Identifying Under- And Overutilization Patterns For Idaho Youth With Serious Emotional Disturbance	60
Georgia’s Reinsurance Waiver Associated With Decreased Premium Affordability And Enrollment	59
SSDI Beneficiaries Had Elevated Mortality During The 2-Year Waiting Period For Medicare, 2000–21	59
Rapid Disenrollment Rates Tripled For Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries, 2017–22	56
Proposing A Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making And Health Care Practices	55
Housing Status Changes Are Associated With Cancer Outcomes Among US Veterans	52
Disparities In The Quality Of Clinical Care Delivered To American Indian/Alaska Native Medicare Advantage Enrollees	52
Disability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008–19	51
Medicare Advantage Networks Include Few Black Or Hispanic Physicians, Making Concordant Care Inaccessible For Many	50
Controlling Spending For Health Care And Long-Term Care: Japan’s Experience With A Rapidly Aging Society	50
Private Equity Acquisition Of Substance Use Treatment Centers Increases Probability Of Public Health Insurance Acceptance	49
High Job Flexibility And Paid Sick Leave Increase Health Care Access And Use Among US Workers	48

Community Power–Building Groups And Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy	47
Medicare Advantage Star Rating Quality Gains Were Concentrated In A Narrow Set Of Clinical And Medication Measures, 2015–25	46
‘Most Favored Nation’ Drug Pricing Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come	46
Accelerated Approval Of Cancer Drugs: No Economic Reward For Drug Makers That Conduct Confirmatory Trials	45
Race And Racial Perceptions Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program	45
Neighborhoods And Health: Interventions At The Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity	44
Geography And Fentanyl: Explaining The Disproportionate Rise In Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans	43
Estimating The Impact Of Out-Of-Pocket Cost Changes On Abandonment Of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis	43
Access Problems And Cost Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries Exceeded Those Of Older Beneficiaries In 2019	43
Increasing Access To Perinatal Mental Health Care: The Perinatal Psychiatry Access Program Model	40
‘Housing First’ Increased Psychiatric Care Office Visits And Prescriptions While Reducing Emergency Visits	40
Medicaid Expansion Lowered Uninsurance Rates Among Nonelderly Adults In The Most Heavily Redlined Areas	40
Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Buprenorphine Receipt Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2015–19	39
Transforming Public Health Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence	39
COVID-19 Vaccination Of People Experiencing Homelessness And Incarceration In Minnesota	39
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Health Care Utilization And Expenditures In Adulthood	38
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	38
Black, Hispanic, And Asian Adults In The US Had Substantially Lower Engagement On The Naloxone Care Cascade, 2024	37
Trends In Patient Cost Sharing For Hospital Care And Implications For Urban And Rural Hospital Revenue	36
Changes In Net Prices And Spending For Pharmaceuticals After The Introduction Of New Therapeutic Competition, 2011–19	36
Perinatal Depression Associated With Increased Pediatric Emergency Department Use And Charges In The First Year Of Life	36
After Risk-Adjustment Change, Dementia Diagnoses Increased In Medicare Advantage Relative To Traditional Medicare	35
The Community As A Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health	35
California’s COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Policy: Cases, Hospitalizations, And Deaths Averted In Affected Communities	35
Ambulance Destinations, Race, And Ethnicity	34
Health Insurance Coverage In Low- And Middle-Income Countries Remains Far From The Goal Of Universal Coverage	34
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Devices	34
Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers	34
Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity, Child Health, And More	34
Demographic Variation In US Outpatient Hydroxychloroquine And Ivermectin Use During The COVID-19 Pandemic	34
Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment In The US: Uneven Access, Waitlists, And High Costs	34
For Some Patients, Better Health Starts With Finding A Home	33
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Certifications: Higher-Volume Physicians Associated With Less Evidence Of Care Coordination	33
Loneliness Among Older Adults	33
Risk Adjustment, Insurance Markets, And More	33
Errata	33
Statement Of Ownership & Circulation	33
Health Care Costs Associated With Hospice Use For People With Dementia In The US	32
Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado	31
Rapid Growth Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven By A Small Number Of Primary Care Providers	31
Medicare Risk Adjustment: Goals, Reform Proposals, And New Frontiers	31
Improved Insurance Coverage Increased Biosimilar Semglee’s Market Share After The FDA’s Interchangeability Designation	31
Resident Mortality And Worker Infection Rates From COVID-19 Lower In Union Than Nonunion US Nursing Homes, 2020–21	30
FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation Reduced Late-Stage Drug Development Time	30
Integrating Maternity Care Through Bundled Payments In The Netherlands: Early Results And Policy Lessons	30
How Industrial Policy Could Accelerate Innovation In The Life Sciences	29
Disability And Health	29
Waiting For On-Call Care	29
Making Time For More Compassionate Care	28
Can Innovative Financing Move The Needle On Health Equity?	28

Children, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, And More	27
Serious Mental Illness Deserves Policy Priority	27
Saving Medicaid And Ourselves	27
Rural Hospitals Experienced More Patient Volume Variability Than Urban Hospitals During The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–21	27
Africa Is Sliding Into Catastrophe Before Our Eyes	27
Subsidy Cliff Looms; Fixing The Family Glitch	27
Combining Patient Survey Data With Diagnosis Codes Improved Medicare Advantage Risk-Adjustment Accuracy	27
Medicare Advantage Plans Pay Large Markups To Consolidated Dialysis Organizations	26
Variation And Changes In The Targeting Of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments	25
US Nonprofit Hospitals Have Widely Varying Criteria To Decide Who Qualifies For Free And Discounted Charity Care	25
Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments During Pregnancy Were Associated With Decreased Odds Of Adverse Birth Outcomes	25
COVID-19 Revealed Shortcomings Of The US Public Health System And The Need To Strengthen Funding And Accountability	25
Use Of Social Determinants Of Health Z Codes Was Sparse, 2016–22	25
Growth In Number Of Practices And Clinicians Participating In Concierge And Direct Primary Care, 2018–23	24
Medicare Part D Protected-Class Policy Is Associated With Lower Drug Rebates	24
Health Savings Accounts No Longer Promote Consumer Cost-Consciousness	24
Mortal Systemic Exclusion Yielded Steep Mortality-Rate Increases In People Experiencing Homelessness, 2011–20	24
Antidepressant Prescriptions Increased For Privately Insured People With Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorder, 2008–20	24
Characteristics Of Medical Device Shortages In The US, 2006–20	23
A Strategy To Support Perinatal Mental Health By Collaborating With Tribal Communities In Montana	23
Mitigating Racial And Ethnic Bias And Advancing Health Equity In Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review	23
Workforce Composition In Private Equity–Acquired Versus Non–Private Equity–Acquired Physician Practices	23
ETR	23
COVID-19 Federal Funding To Health Centers: Tracking Distribution, Locations, And Patient Characteristics	23
To Profit Or Not? Lessons From The Insurance Front Lines	22
Foreign-Born Workers Made Up Half The Increase In The Direct Care Workforce In Home And Community Settings, 2012–22	22
A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment	22
Realities Of Revitalizing US Biomedical Research	22
Prescription Digital Therapeutics: Assertions	22
Anatomy Of A Slowdown: Decomposing The Moderation In Health Spending Growth, 2009–19	22
Comparing The Effects Of Nudges And Automatic Plan Switching On Choice Errors Among Low-Income Marketplace Enrollees	22
Medigap Regulations Provide Protections For Beneficiaries, Especially After Health Shocks, But May Raise Premiums	22
Benchmarking Changes And Selective Participation In The Medicare Shared Savings Program	22
Private Equity Acquisition Of Primary Care Practices: Modest Growth In Clinicians Offset By Increased Clinician Exits	21
Fluctuating State Medicaid Dental Coverage: Asymmetric Impact Of Benefit Cuts And Expansions, 2010–21	21
Maternal Contact With Child Protective Services Associated With Less Postpartum Care In Wisconsin, 2010–19	21
Minnesota Public Health Corps: A New Model For Building The Governmental Public Health Workforce	21
When Safety-Net Programs Compete: Medicaid, 340B, And The Battle Over Drug Discounts	21
Continuous Eligibility And Coverage Policies Expanded Children’s Medicaid Enrollment	20
Medicaid And Methadone For Opioid Use Disorder: Expanded Coverage Increased Distribution In 10 States, 2019–24	20
Trends In The Use Of Treatment For Substance Use Disorders, 2010–19	20
Favorable Selection Among Dually Enrolled Beneficiaries In Private Medicare Plans	20
Under Global Budgets, Hospital Utilization In Maryland Decreased By 11 Percentage Points More Than In Other States, 2013–23	19
Disparities In Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputations In The United States: A Systematic Review	19
Oregon Community Benefit Reform Influenced Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care And Medical Debt Write-Off	19
Rhode Island’s Affordability Standards Led To Hospital Price Reductions And Lower Insurance Premiums	19
National Health Expenditure Projections, 2022–31: Growth To Stabilize Once The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends	19
COVID-19 Disruption To Routine Health Care Services: How 8 Latin American And Caribbean Countries Responded	19
Value-Based Purchasing Design And Effect: A Systematic Review And Analysis	19
The Relationships Among Cash Prices, Negotiated Rates, And Chargemaster Prices For Shoppable Hospital Services	18
To The Best Friend Who Gave Up On Me, 20 Years Later	18
How Phantom Networks And Other Barriers Impede Progress On Mental Health Insurance Reform	18
Dual-Eligible Nursing Home Residents: Enrollment Growth In Managed Care Plans That Coordinate Care, 2013–20	18
Medicare Advantage: National Carriers Expand Market Share While Regional Carriers Without Affiliation Decline, 2012–23	18
Medicare Advantage Enrollment Since The ACA: What The Projections Did Not Foresee	18
Health Insurance Coverage Among Black Immigrant Adults	18
Early OxyContin Marketing Linked To Long-Term Spread Of Infectious Diseases Associated With Injection Drug Use	18
Opioid Use Disorder Medicaid Waivers: The Authors Reply	18
Medicare Advantage And Traditional Medicare Differences: The Authors Reply	18
Losing Our Way In A Rare Disease Diagnostic Odyssey	18
In Medicaid Managed Care Networks, Care Is Highly Concentrated Among A Small Percentage Of Physicians	17
Intended And Unintended Outcomes After FDA Pediatric Antidepressant Warnings: A Systematic Review	17
Studies Of Prescription Digital Therapeutics Often Lack Rigor And Inclusivity	17
Judicial Decisions Constraining Public Health Powers During COVID-19: Implications For Public Health Policy Making	17
The Costs Of Disparities In Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations In The US South, 2015–17	16
Food Insecurity, Missed Workdays, And Hospitalizations Among Working-Age US Adults With Diabetes	16
Availability Versus Accessibility: Identifying COVID-19 Testing Deserts Across Massachusetts	16
Increases In COVID-19 Vaccination Among NYC Municipal Employees After Implementation Of Vaccination Requirements	16
Estimated Savings From Extending Prescription Drug Inflationary Rebates To All Commercial Plans	16
Medicaid, Drug Pricing, Aging, And More	16
The Risk Of Perpetuating Health Disparities Through Cost-Effectiveness Analyses	16
As Hospitals Restrict Visitors, What Constitutes A ‘Good Death’?	16
Reimagining Public Health	16
Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health	16
Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder: Comparison Of Insurance Restrictions, 2017–21	16
Standing Up For My Sister	16
Supporting Formerly Incarcerated People With Recovery	16
Public Health During COVID-19 And More	15
Substantial Growth In Medicare Advantage And Implications For Reform	15
Medicare, Cancer Care, And More	15

Provider Relief Funds And Hospital Profits: The Authors Reply	15
Patients Receive Flexible And Accessible Care When State Workforce Barriers Are Removed	15
The Youth Mental Health Crisis In The US: Lack Of Political Will Poses The Greatest Barrier To Meaningful Action	15
Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnoses Among Commercially Insured People Increased, 2008–20	15
Bridging The Gap From Maternal Crises To Care	15
More Than Methadone Dispensers: The Authors Reply	15
New Cancer Drug Approvals: Less Than Half Of Important Clinical Trial Uncertainties Reported By The FDA To Clinicians, 2019–22	15
Understanding And Comparing Economic Assistance Models To Improve Food Security And Diet Quality: A Rapid Review	15
Public Perceptions Of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies In Europe: Socioeconomic Status And Trust Were Factors	14
Health Spending, Physician Practice, And More	14
Nursing Home Staffing: Share Of Immigrant Certified Nursing Assistants Grew As US-Born Staff Numbers Fell, 2010–21	14
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Via Community Resources: Lessons From Accountable Health Communities	14
Prescription Real-Time Benefit Tools: Clinicians Receive Frequent Alerts Yet Rarely Accept The Suggested Changes	14
State-Level Variation In Low-Value Care For Commercially Insured And Medicare Advantage Populations	14
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US	14
After 50 Years, Health Professional Shortage Areas Had No Significant Impact On Mortality Or Physician Density	14
Perinatal Care Measures Are Incomplete If They Do Not Assess The Birth Parent–Infant Dyad As A Whole	14
Four Opportunities To Revitalize The US Biomedical Research Enterprise	14
Extended Postpartum Medicaid In Colorado Associated With Increased Treatment For Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorders	14
Hospitals Acquired By Private Equity Firms: Increased Postoperative Mortality For Common Inpatient Surgeries	14
Economic Well-Being And Health: The Role Of Income Support Programs In Promoting Health And Advancing Health Equity	13
State Mandates On Naloxone Coprescribing Associated With Short-Term Increase In Naloxone Codispensing	13
Financial Coaching Offers New Paths To A Healthy Future	13
Meeting Care Needs, Pharmaceuticals, And More	13
Terror Kingdom	13
Stipends From Hospitals To Emergency Medicine And Anesthesiology Clinicians Increased In California, 2002–21	13
Medicare Local Coverage Determinations: Evidence Quality Is Stronger For Covered Indications	13
Medicaid Payment For Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Prompts More Equitable Use	13
State Variations In Progress Toward Eliminating Disparities In Infant Mortality, 2007–19	13
Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Postpartum Depressive Symptoms, Diagnosis, And Care In 7 US Jurisdictions	13
Strategic Selection And Pricing Power: Optum’s Acquisitions Of Ambulatory Surgery Centers And Physician Practices	13
US National Spending On Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Treatment Driven By Case Growth, 2000–21	13
Health Care Workforce Pay Gaps: COVID-19 Modestly Compressed Wage Disparities, 2015–24	13
Insights About The Opioid Crisis	13
State Eviction Moratoriums During The COVID-19 Pandemic Were Associated With Improved Mental Health Among People Who Rent	13
Factors Influencing Rural Hospitals’ Decisions To Join An Alternative Payment Model: A Mixed-Methods Study	12
Coming Up Short: How Cancer Drug Shortages Affect Care	12
The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020	12
Reduced Medicare Advantage Insurer Concentration Associated With Small Improvements In Market Outcomes, 2013–23	12
Reclaiming Ancestral Abundance	12
Excess Deaths Will Continue In The United States Until The Root Causes Are Addressed	12
Is It Working? Evaluating The First Round Of Medicare Drug Price Negotiations	12
Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies To Treat Opioid Use Disorder	12
Drugs Are Not Microchips: Whither Industrial Policy In The Life Sciences?	12
Advance Care Planning	12
Erratum	12
Reimagining Public Health: Mapping A Path Forward	12
Behavioral Health, Nursing Home Workforce, And More	12
Expected Out-Of-Pocket Costs: Comparing Medicare Advantage With Fee-For-Service Medicare	12
Tubal Sterilization And Vasectomy Increased Among US Young Adults After The Dobbs Supreme Court Decision In 2022	12
Differences In Debt Among Postgraduate Medical Residents By Self-Designated Race And Ethnicity, 2014–19	12
Learning The Limits Of Health Care Sharing Plans	12
proc prun / roses	12
Ukraine: A Humanitarian Disaster With Long-Term Consequences	12
State Laws Banning Prior Authorization For Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Increased Substantially, 2015–23	12
Drug Coverage Policies And Clinical Guidelines Alignment: Most Coverage Decisions Include Additional Restrictions	12
Street Medicine For OUD After Emergency Department Visit: The Authors Reply	12
Caring For The Body And Mind In Long-Term Care	12
My Story Of Trauma And Reproductive Health	12
Health Benefits In 2024: Higher Premiums Persist, Employer Strategies For GLP-1 Coverage And Family-Building Benefits	12
Medicaid: Increased Patient Access To MOUD In Residential Treatment Associated With Facility Openings And Closures, 2012–22	11
From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It	11
Cancer Drugs, Medical Debt, Cybersecurity, And More	11
Trauma Activation Fees Vary Widely Across US Trauma Centers	11
Oncology Drugs: The Authors Reply	11
Increases In Physician Professional Fees In Private Equity–Owned Gastroenterology Practices	11
Echoes Of Trauma: Post–Intensive Care Syndrome	11
Promoting Access To Hospital Care In Rural Areas: Current Approaches And Ongoing Challenges	11
Estimating Medicaid Reimbursement For Psychological Services	11
Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Advanced: Effects On Hospital And CMS Spending, 2018–21	11
Telemedicine, Disparities, Pharmaceuticals, And More	11
Higher Rates Of Homelessness Are Associated With Increases In Mortality From Accidental Drug And Alcohol Poisonings	11
Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges The Financial Viability Of Nursing Homes, Especially Not-For-Profit Facilities	11
Patent Challenges And Litigation On Inhalers For Asthma And COPD	11
Contraceptives At The Counter: Pharmacists Prescribed A Fraction Of Overall Contraceptives, 2022	11
Naloxone Access And Harm Reduction Among AANHPI Communities	11
Many Intensive Care Units Were Overloaded While Nearby Hospitals Had Excess Capacity During The COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Hospital- And Private Equity–Affiliated Specialty Physicians Negotiate Higher Prices Than Independent Physicians	11
Spending, Payment, And More	11
Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23	11
Abortion Restrictions Threaten Miscarriage Management In The United States	11