health-economics

A new study found that hospitals spent at least $7.8 billion on management consulting over roughly a decade but saw no meaningful changes in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes.

The National Mental Health Commission (the Commission) has engaged Monash University to deliver the most comprehensive economic modelling and evaluation of mental health interventions undertaken in Australia.

Dr. Jing Li, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Associate Director of the CHOICE Institute, has been selected as a finalist—alongside her co-authors—for the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation’s Policy Research Award.... The post CHOICE Institute Research Named Finalist for National Health Policy Award appeared first on School of Pharmacy .

For the 160 million Americans who get health insurance through their jobs, a stark reality has been building for decades. Between 1999 and 2024, family premiums for employer-sponsored coverage climbed 342%. Workers’ contributions to those premiums rose 308%. Their actual earnings? Up just 119%. That’s not a gap. That’s a chasm, and it’s widening every year. A new economic analysis in JAMA Network…

Essays in Health Economics Author(s) Moran, Kelsey C.Advisor Finkelstein, Amy Gruber, Jonathan Terms of use Abstract This dissertation comprises three essays in health economics. The first paper studies how imperfect electronic health record (EHR) system compatibility, or interoperability, affects patients. My coauthors, Rebekah Dix and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, and I find that improved EHR interoperab…

The post American’s overall and equity-based societal valuation of a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment: Results from a discrete choice experiment appeared first on Center for Economic and Social Research .

Our report titled "Economic Valuation of Physical Activity: A Multilayered Framework" explains just how much physical activity impacts both health and the economy. The report finds that physical activity leads to significant healthcare cost savings, increased productivity, and overall economic gains at individual, corporate, and national levels. The findings demonstrate how much individuals, comp…

Pauline Mourot has an idea that could save more than 800 lives a year. All it would require? Switching cardiac surgeons between hospitals. The proposal combines a classic idea from labor economics— worker sorting across firms—with the economics of healthcare production. In the health economics literature, often known for hotly debated topics like insurance and Read more... The post The Surgeon Sh…

The post Economic Impact of Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer Disease in the United States appeared first on Center for Economic and Social Research .

The Affordable Care Act is one of the most significant health reforms in a generation. In addition to covering 15 million uninsured Americans, substantially expanding government health spending, and setting off a fierce political debate, the ACA is notable for an underappreciated reason: it is a major expansion of market-based health insurance. Traditionally, health insurance […] The post Hospita…

Since the Brazilian Regulatory Agency for Supplementary Health’s (ANS) creation in 2000, health insurance inflation has grown at a much greater pace than general inflation. Indeed, after eighteen years the private health insurance price index was close to double the official inflation index, with its 382% (see here).  The upward course of prices can be […]

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Professor MARC ROBERTS Professor MARC ROBERTS Audio will be available later today. 2: Professor MARC ROBERTS. Roberts is a professor of Political Economy and Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government. He'll discuss the economics of health care and health care reform in America.

A central question in the US debate over privatized Medicare is whether increased government contributions to private plans generate lower premiums for consumers or higher profits for producers. This research finds that insurance companies pass through 45% of higher payments in lower premiums and an additional 9% in more generous benefits for those who enroll in Medicare Advantage. Since the find…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is arguably the biggest policy intervention in health insurance in the United States since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The Act was signed into law in March 2010, and by 2016 approximately 20 to 24 million additional Americans were covered with health insurance. Such an extension of insurance coverage could affect not only medi…

In evaluating health insurance mergers recently proposed in the U.S., regulators have grappled with the costs and benefits of reduced insurer competition. Our study examines the direct and indirect effects that a reduction in the number of insurers has on premiums, provider reimbursement rates, and consumer welfare. Using detailed health and enrollment data and focusing on a part of the commerc…

Diagnostic tests are a core component of modern health care practice: they determine a patient’s susceptibility to developing cancer and other disorders; they diagnose biological conditions; they monitor the progress of disease; and they can assess the risk of disease recurrence. Ensuring their innovative growth is therefore an important issue in innovation policy. While legal scholarship address…

In one of my graduate courses, I taught the Rand health insurance experiment. It’s a famous study where some people were randomly given health insurance coverage to see how it affected access and health. The bottom line is that using insurance to decrease the costs of health via low co-payment helps with access, but not […]

I thought this was a nice statement that speaks to the utility of quantile regression (which holds to any distribution with these issues not just cost data): The quantile regression framework allows us to obtain a more complete picture of the effects of the covariates on the health care cost, and is naturally adapted to the skewness and heterogeneity of the cost data. More: Health care cost data …

I stumbled upon this paper recently: Reforming health care: Evidence from quantile regressions for counts Rainer Winkelmann Journal of Health Economics 25 (2006) 131–145 "Basically, the approach transforms the discrete data problem into a continuous data problem by adding a random uniform variable to each count. The quantile regression functions of the transformed variable can then be estimated u…