Lynda C. Burton, ScD; Elizabeth A. Skinner, MSW; Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD; Richard Lieberman, BA; Bruce Leff, MD; Rebecca Clark, BA; Qilu Yu, PhD; Klaus W. Lemke, PhD; and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH

At 1 year after Hurricane Katrina, the health burden of enrollees increased significantly more versus a comparison group. Emergency department visits and hospitalizations remained elevated.

Tara Lagu, MD, MPH; Mark G. Weiner, MD; Susan Eachus, PhD; Simon S. K. Tang, MPH; J. Sanford Schwartz, MD; and Barbara J. Turner, MD, MSEd

Patients in a Medicaid managed care plan who had cardiovascular comorbidities were not more likely to fill antihypertensive prescriptions than patients without these conditions.

Catherine Kim, MD, MPH; Edward F. Tierney, MPH; William H. Herman, MD, MPH;

Perception of reimbursement was associated with electrocardiography but not with other common outpatient procedures. Future research should investigate how associations change with perceived reimbursement amount.

Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD; Klaus W. Lemke, PhD; David P. Bodycombe, ScD; and Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH

Predictive models from diagnostic or medication data identify care management candidates who are more amenable to clinical interventions than groups identified using prior cost alone.

Kevin D. Frick, PhD; Lynda C. Burton, ScD; Rebecca Clark, BA; Scott I. Mader, MD; W. Bruce Naughton, MD; Jeffrey B. Burl, MD; William B. Greenough, III, MD;

Substitutive Hospital at Home care for 4 common conditions is associated with cost savings.

Marie Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH; Tareq Islam, MPH; Larry S. Webber, PhD; Richard N. Re, MD; Donald E. Morisky, ScD; and Paul Muntner, PhD

Scores on a new medication adherence scale maintained a strong graded association with antihypertensive drug pharmacy fill adherence among community-dwelling seniors in a managed care organization.

Sarah Hudson Scholle, MPH, DrPH; Joachim Roski, PhD, MPH; Daniel L. Dunn, PhD; John L. Adams, PhD; Donna Pillitterre Dugan, MS; L. Gregory Pawlson, MD, MPH; and Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH

Typical health plan data provide limited information for benchmarking physician performance using even a less stringent rule for attributing patient measures to physicians.

Jennifer M. Polinski, MPS, MS; and Joshua J. Gagne, PharmD, MS. Reply by Teisha A. Robertson, PharmD, MBA; Catherine E. Cooke, PharmD, BCPS; Jingshu J. Wang, PhD, MPH; Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPS; and Helen Y. Lee, PharmD, MBA