Publications

The Commonwealth Fund produces more than 100 publications a year, all free and most listed in PubMed. We also produce several newsletters, including The Commonwealth Fund Connection, designed to keep our audience up-to-date on Fund research and publications, and an online Annual Report. Our author guidelines are also available.

First-Ever Local Area Health System Scorecard Reveals Stark Differences Across U.S.

March 14, 2012 - Health care access, cost, quality, and outcomes can vary greatly from one community to the next—both within states and across states—depending on the performance of the health care system available to residents, according to the first-ever local health system scorecard. See an interactive map to compare data across local areas.

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More Than Half of Individual Health Plans Offer Coverage That Falls Short of What Can Be Sold Through Exchanges as of 2014

May 23, 2012 - More than half of Americans who have health coverage through the individual insurance market are in plans that would not meet the standards for "essential benefits" set by the Affordable Care Act. Most people enrolled in employer group plans, however, have more comprehensive coverage with less cost-sharing.

Reducing Health Care Disparities with Health Insurance and Medical Homes

May 16, 2012 - A new analysis of the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health Insurance Survey demonstrates that when low-income adults have both health insurance and a medical home, they are less likely to report cost-related access problems, more likely to be up-to-date with preventive screenings, and report greater satisfaction with the quality of their care.

Recommended Core Measures for Evaluating the Medical Home

May 16, 2012 - This Commonwealth Fund data brief describes how more than 70 researchers came together as part of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators’ Collaborative to identify a set of standardized measures to assess patient-centered medical homes.

How Wide Is the Gap Between Its Agenda and Implementation in 12 High-Income Health Systems?

May 11, 2012 - The authors of this Commonwealth Fund-supported study report on how the policy reforms set forth by the World Health Organization in 2008 are being implemented in 12 wealthy health systems.