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Are health insurers providing fair access? – Healthcare Economist
How well did payers provide “fair” access policies? Based on an recent ICER report titled “Assessment of Barriers to Fair…
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Incentivizing overspending or fueling innovation? – Healthcare Economist
Based on a study by Frankovic and Kuhn (2022), the answer is both. However, the…
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The Impact of Paid Family Leave on Job Retention – Healthcare Economist
Paid family leave (PFL) provide paid time off for workers who care for a newborn…
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FDA’s 2022 Drug Approvals – Healthcare Economist
The year 2022 was a good, but perhaps not great year for innovation. According to…
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GM chief economist: Michigan has advantages to win future EV plants
DETROIT — General Motors‘ chief economist is optimistic about the health of the economy and Michigan‘s position to win more…
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Reducing the bias from on the inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) – Healthcare Economist
When using observational data, assignment to a treatment group is non-random and causal inference may be difficult. One common approach…
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Why was there a slowdown in Medicare spending growth over the past decade? – Healthcare Economist
That is the question posed by Buntin et al. (2022). The authors used data from…
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Impact of medication cost-sharing on adherence, clinical outcomes, health care utilization, and costs – Healthcare Economist
This is the paraphrased title of a paper by Fusco et al. (2023). The authors…
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2021 US National Health Expenditures – Healthcare Economist
A paper in Health Affairs by Martin, Hartman, Benson, Catlin, and The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team (2022) finds that…
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Payment Methodology – Healthcare Economist
Back in July, I provided an overview of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM). Today I build upon that post focusing…
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