Mark V. Pauly

Doctors are obviously influential in determining the costs of their services. But even more important, many believe, is the influence physicians have over the use and cost of nonphysician health-care resources and services. Doctors and Their Workshops is the first comprehensive attempt to use economic analysis to understand some of the physician effects on nonphysician aspects of health care.

Economic Models of Physician Behavior

Doctors and Their Workshops

Adding Demand, Incentives, Disequilibrium, and Disaggregation to Health Care Models

William L. Kissick

In this comprehensive volume, leading experts on health policy consider a broad range of Medicare-related issues. They assess the effects of Medicare policy over the last twenty years, analyze the impact of changing economic and demographic conditions, and consider how best to implement successful reform of the troubled system.

Research Implications for Public and Private Sector Policy

Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare

Thomas W. Grannemann

A comprehensive policymaker's guide to the Medicaid program, Medicaid Everyone Can Count On offers unique insights into the complex interactions among stakeholders in America's state-based public health care programs. In an era of national health care reform, this volume is an invaluable resource for federal and state lawmakers and program analysts tasked with crafting policies that balance the distinct needs of taxpayers, providers, and the poor. Working from theory to practice, Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly develop an approach to Medicaid policy based on a keen understanding of the forces that have shaped the program. They begin by examining the program's intellectual foundations--American altruism and the principles of equity, efficiency, and democracy. They then ask the question: What are the inherent strengths and weakness of the American approach to financing medical care for the poor? The answers it turns out have direct implications for how best to approach implementing health reforms that would extend eligibility, control costs, and provide better value both to program recipients and to taxpayers. Building on the theory of public choice and economic analysis, the authors offer new perspectives on the program and its flaws, including unequal benefits among the states, federal funding that is poorly matched to state needs and resources, and disparities in payment to health care providers. To correct these flaws reform initiatives need to focus on two leverage points--federal financing and provider payment--that control the flow of resources and influence the behavior of states and medical care providers. The authors offer suggestions for using these tools to address policy issues in areas such as eligibility, benefits, care management, provider incentives, and federal assistance to the states. At this transitional point in the program's history, Grannemann and Pauly provide a consistent framework for thinking about Medicaid policy, one which has many practical implications for policy

Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency

Medicaid Everyone Can Count on

Rick Parent

David Gould

Matthias Müller

Mark R. Wilkins

Chris Kazmier

Alberto Menache

David S. Ebert

Markus Gross

Charles John Lumsden

Richard Keiser

F. Kenton Musgrave

Darwyn Peachey

Ken Perlin

Hanspeter Pfister

Jason Sharpe

Martin Wicke

Nicholas Woolridge

Steve Worley

A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning and versatile images. Animators will be able to master myriad modeling, rendering, and texturing procedures with advice from MK's best and brightest authors. Divided into five parts (Introduction to Computer Animation and Technical Background, Motion Capture Techniques, Animating Substances, Alternate Methods, and Animating with MEL for MAYA), each one focusing on specific substances, tools, topics, and languages, this is a MUST-HAVE book for artists interested in proficiency with the top technology available today! Whether you're a programmer developing new animation functionality or an animator trying to get the most out of your current animation software, Computer Animation Complete: will help you work more efficiently and achieve better results. For programmers, this book provides a solid theoretical orientation and extensive practical instruction information you can put to work in any development or customization project. For animators, it provides crystal-clear guidance on determining which of your concepts can be realized using commercially available products, which demand custom programming, and what development strategies are likely to bring you the greatest success. Expert instruction from a variety of pace-setting computer graphics researchers. Provides in-depth coverage of established and emerging animation algorithms. For readers who lack a strong scientific background, introduces the necessary concepts from mathematics, biology, and physics. A variety of individual languages and substances are addressed, but addressed separately - enhancing your grasp of the field as a whole while providing you with the ability to identify and implement solutions by category.

All-in-One: Learn Motion Capture, Characteristic, Point-Based, and Maya Winning Techniques

Computer Animation Complete

Howard C. Kunreuther

Stacey McMorrow

This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation.

Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

Insurance and Behavioral Economics

Philip A. Rea

Lawton R. Burns

Addresses in roughly equal measure the science and management behind several recent marketable biomedical innovations.

Harnessing Creativity to Drive Biomedical Innovation

Managing Discovery in the Life Sciences

Mark V. Pauly

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