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RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview with CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
BLOOD CLOTS, FDA APPROVAL, AND THE ASTRAZENECA COVID Blood Clots, FDA Approval, and the AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine. 04/21/2021. Tiffany Doherty. There’s a lot of anxiety about the AstraZeneca vaccine thanks to recent reports of incomplete data, as well as reports on blood clot risks. Let’s take a look at both issues in context, understanding the efficacy data before and afternumbers were
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Millions of Americans struggle with substance use disorder, with estimates suggesting as many as 1 in 13 people needed treatment in 2018. Between high demand for services and lack of regulation, this is an area of health care already rife with predatory behavior. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURE The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview with CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
BLOOD CLOTS, FDA APPROVAL, AND THE ASTRAZENECA COVID Blood Clots, FDA Approval, and the AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine. 04/21/2021. Tiffany Doherty. There’s a lot of anxiety about the AstraZeneca vaccine thanks to recent reports of incomplete data, as well as reports on blood clot risks. Let’s take a look at both issues in context, understanding the efficacy data before and afternumbers were
BLOOD CLOTS, FDA APPROVAL, AND THE ASTRAZENECA COVID Blood Clots, FDA Approval, and the AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine. 04/21/2021. Tiffany Doherty. There’s a lot of anxiety about the AstraZeneca vaccine thanks to recent reports of incomplete data, as well as reports on blood clot risks. Let’s take a look at both issues in context, understanding the efficacy data before and afternumbers were
WHAT’S BEHIND THE GROWTH IN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION? The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2021, The New York Times Company) and was coauthored by Nambi Ndugga and Austin Frakt. It also appeared on page A4 of the print edition on April 21, 2021.. American deaths from misuse of substances, including alcohol, have increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly across various demographic groups.COUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview with HEALTH CARE MARKET FAILURES (AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT Health care market failures (and what can be done about them) This post complements one yesterday that focused on market failures in health insurance ( read it first ). It’s loosely based on the content of Economics of the Public Sector, by Joe Stiglitz. Here’s a run down of market failures pertaining to the provision of healthcare.
METHODS: FALSIFICATION TESTS Methods: Falsification tests. nalyses in large data sets are not necessarily correct simply because they are larger. Control groups might not eliminate potential confounders, or many varying definitions of exposure to the agent may be tested (alternative thresholds for dose or duration of a drug)—a form of multiple- hypothesis testing OVERIDENTIFICATION TESTS Overidentification tests. 05/14/2012. Austin Frakt. Last week, in Inquiry, my latest paper with Steve Pizer and Roger Feldman was published. An ungated, working paper version is also available. Note also that I wrote a bit about a portion of it in a prior post, though even that does not describe what the paper is about. WHAT’S WRONG WITH QALYS? What’s wrong with QALYs? 11/25/2015. Austin Frakt. In a 2009 Value in Health paper, Joseph Lipscomb and colleagues concisely summarized some of the common critiques of use of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in economic and policy analysis. Below is an even more concise summary, informed by their paper. ACOS: ONE- VS TWO-SIDED RISK ACOs: one- vs two-sided risk. 12/06/2010. Austin Frakt. I understand that the “shared-savings” financial incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) are one-sided. That is, ACOs can only benefit from meeting quality and cost targets. At worst, if they fail to meet them, they’d still get all their fee-for-service paymentthey’d
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview with HOW USEFUL ARE TEMPERATURE SCREENINGS FOR COVID? Temperature screening has become a common Covid mitigation practice in many settings. But as noted by one of our Healthcare Triage viewers, this practice doesn’t seem that effective at face value. So should we be relying on temperature checks to help curb the spread of Covid-19, or is it just medical theater that distracts from RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURE The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. OUT-OF-NETWORK PAYMENTS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE At the most basic level, when a Medicare Advantage HMO member willingly seeks care from an out-of-network provider, the member assumes full liability for payment. That is, neither the HMO plan nor TM will pay for services when an MA member goes out-of-network. The price that the provider can charge for these services, though, varies,and must
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview with HOW USEFUL ARE TEMPERATURE SCREENINGS FOR COVID? Temperature screening has become a common Covid mitigation practice in many settings. But as noted by one of our Healthcare Triage viewers, this practice doesn’t seem that effective at face value. So should we be relying on temperature checks to help curb the spread of Covid-19, or is it just medical theater that distracts from RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURE The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. OUT-OF-NETWORK PAYMENTS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE At the most basic level, when a Medicare Advantage HMO member willingly seeks care from an out-of-network provider, the member assumes full liability for payment. That is, neither the HMO plan nor TM will pay for services when an MA member goes out-of-network. The price that the provider can charge for these services, though, varies,and must
BUPRENORPHINE REGULATIONS AND BETTER TREATMENT OF We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist Buprenorphine, is one of them. New regulations have eased the requirements for this waiver, hopefullypaving the
WHAT’S BEHIND THE GROWTH IN ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION? The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2021, The New York Times Company) and was coauthored by Nambi Ndugga and Austin Frakt. It also appeared on page A4 of the print edition on April 21, 2021.. American deaths from misuse of substances, including alcohol, have increased over the past two decades, but not uniformly across various demographic groups.COUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOW USEFUL ARE TEMPERATURE SCREENINGS FOR COVID? Temperature screening has become a common Covid mitigation practice in many settings. But as noted by one of our Healthcare Triage viewers, this practice doesn’t seem that effective at face value. So should we be relying on temperature checks to help curb the spread of Covid-19, or is it just medical theater that distracts from WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
METHODS: FALSIFICATION TESTS Methods: Falsification tests. nalyses in large data sets are not necessarily correct simply because they are larger. Control groups might not eliminate potential confounders, or many varying definitions of exposure to the agent may be tested (alternative thresholds for dose or duration of a drug)—a form of multiple- hypothesis testing WHAT’S WRONG WITH QALYS? What’s wrong with QALYs? 11/25/2015. Austin Frakt. In a 2009 Value in Health paper, Joseph Lipscomb and colleagues concisely summarized some of the common critiques of use of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) in economic and policy analysis. Below is an even more concise summary, informed by their paper. OVERIDENTIFICATION TESTS Overidentification tests. 05/14/2012. Austin Frakt. Last week, in Inquiry, my latest paper with Steve Pizer and Roger Feldman was published. An ungated, working paper version is also available. Note also that I wrote a bit about a portion of it in a prior post, though even that does not describe what the paper is about. COST EFFECTIVE V. COST SAVING Cost effective v. cost saving. 11/29/2011. Don Taylor. Jeff Levin-Scherz nicely demonstrates that cost effective is not the same thing as cost saving, using the example of statins and their decrease in heart disease mortality risk. Statins are enormously effective drugs that, along with a decrease in cigarette smoking, have beenresponsible for
ACOS: ONE- VS TWO-SIDED RISK ACOs: one- vs two-sided risk. 12/06/2010. Austin Frakt. I understand that the “shared-savings” financial incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) are one-sided. That is, ACOs can only benefit from meeting quality and cost targets. At worst, if they fail to meet them, they’d still get all their fee-for-service paymentthey’d
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the PAID SICK LEAVE IS A WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. BUPRENORPHINE REGULATIONS AND BETTER TREATMENT OF We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist Buprenorphine, is one of them. New regulations have eased the requirements for this waiver, hopefullypaving the
YOUR COVID-19 THOUGHTS ARE NOT CRAZY Your COVID-19 thoughts are not crazy. I’ve spent the last several days having conversations with various colleagues, friends, and family members about the COVID-19 pandemic. The one general truth about all these conversations is this: People are in different places emotionally and thinking about different facets of the crisis. RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. 1619 PROJECT: LIST OF ARTICLES 1619 Project: list of articles. The articles in The New York Times’ 1619 Project — observing the 400th anniversary of American slavery and its implications — are worth your time, and mine. It’s a beautiful online interactive, but very inconvenient if you want to gradually work you way through the articles over a span of days. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
OUT-OF-NETWORK PAYMENTS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE The complexity of Medicare Advantage (MA) physician networks has been well-documented, but the payment regulations that underlie these plans remain opaque, even to experts. If an MA plan enrollee sees an out-of-network doctor, how much should she expect to pay? HEALTH CARE MARKET FAILURES (AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT Health care market failures (and what can be done about them) This post complements one yesterday that focused on market failures in health insurance ( read it first ). It’s loosely based on the content of Economics of the Public Sector, by Joe Stiglitz. Here’s a run down of market failures pertaining to the provision of healthcare.
NICUS COST HOW MANY THOUSANDS PER DAY? AND PARENTS NEED Yeah, I know. The government is set to shut down on Tuesday—by non-coincidence the very day health insurance exchanges open for business for ObamaCare. And I’m about to talk about hospital parking? Bear with me. This is actually an important issue: The incredible way our health system so terribly disserves families caringfor loved-ones with
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the PAID SICK LEAVE IS A WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. BUPRENORPHINE REGULATIONS AND BETTER TREATMENT OF We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist Buprenorphine, is one of them. New regulations have eased the requirements for this waiver, hopefullypaving the
YOUR COVID-19 THOUGHTS ARE NOT CRAZY Your COVID-19 thoughts are not crazy. I’ve spent the last several days having conversations with various colleagues, friends, and family members about the COVID-19 pandemic. The one general truth about all these conversations is this: People are in different places emotionally and thinking about different facets of the crisis. RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. 1619 PROJECT: LIST OF ARTICLES 1619 Project: list of articles. The articles in The New York Times’ 1619 Project — observing the 400th anniversary of American slavery and its implications — are worth your time, and mine. It’s a beautiful online interactive, but very inconvenient if you want to gradually work you way through the articles over a span of days. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
OUT-OF-NETWORK PAYMENTS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE The complexity of Medicare Advantage (MA) physician networks has been well-documented, but the payment regulations that underlie these plans remain opaque, even to experts. If an MA plan enrollee sees an out-of-network doctor, how much should she expect to pay? HEALTH CARE MARKET FAILURES (AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT Health care market failures (and what can be done about them) This post complements one yesterday that focused on market failures in health insurance ( read it first ). It’s loosely based on the content of Economics of the Public Sector, by Joe Stiglitz. Here’s a run down of market failures pertaining to the provision of healthcare.
NICUS COST HOW MANY THOUSANDS PER DAY? AND PARENTS NEED Yeah, I know. The government is set to shut down on Tuesday—by non-coincidence the very day health insurance exchanges open for business for ObamaCare. And I’m about to talk about hospital parking? Bear with me. This is actually an important issue: The incredible way our health system so terribly disserves families caringfor loved-ones with
THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the THE INCIDENTAL ECONOMISTCHOICEEXPLAINING RESEARCHTHE DISASTERS THAT BUILT THE FDA AND WHERE WE GO FROM HERE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. KEEP OUR PEOPLE SAFE Two and a half months ago, I asked what each of us could do about the coronavirus. My answer was that we should talk to the people we are closely connected to and give them our best guidance on how to stay safe. That’s still my advice. The hard question is, what is the best COST SHARING REDUCTION WEEDS: “SILVER LOADING” AND THE Last week I alluded to ways that consumers could be protected from premium spikes resulting from the Trump Administration’s cessation of cost sharing reduction payments to Marketplace insurers — so called “silver loading” and the “silver switcheroo.” Margot Sanger-Katz wrote about these this week at the Upshot. Some additional details are provided in the following interview withCOUNTERFACTUALS
The only time I had lunch with Jon Gruber he told me the biggest problem in policy debates is a lack of clear understanding of the counterfactual. Since then, I’ve been paying more attention, and he’s right that it is not well understood. Since I used the concept repeatedly in the comments on a post HOSPITAL COST SHIFTING: BRIEF HISTORY AND POSSIBLE FUTURECOST SHIFTING EXAMPLESCOST SHIFTING HYDRAULICCOST SHIFTING IN HEALTH CAREIS COST SHIFTING ETHICALADVANTAGES OF COST SHIFTINGBENEFITS OF COST SHIFTING The following is a slightly edited excerpt from the working paper version of my paper “How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence,” to appear in issue 1, volume 89 of The Milbank Quarterly (expected March 2011). See also “Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates:A Practitioners’ Guide“. This post has been cited in UPCODING PART ONE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW COMMON IS IT? Specifically, providers and payers can sometimes hide behind that complexity to intentionally bill erroneously. Upcoding is one potentially fraudulent form of billing. Upcoding occurs when more intensive and expensive diagnoses or treatments are documented than what was actually provided to the patient or medically necessary. SURVIVAL RATES ARE NOT THE SAME AS MORTALITY RATES Survival rates are something else entirely. They calculate the percentage of people with a disease who are still alive a set amount of time after diagnosis. The five year survival rate for people with lung cancer in the US is 15.6%. But here’s the thing. You can only decrease the mortality rate by preventing death, or curing thedisease.
EXPLICIT V. IMPLICIT RATIONING The publication of the American College of Physicians ethics manual has garnered lots of comment. Aaron has weighed in with two posts and the comments show that people have very strong feelings about the role of physicians in using cost and effectiveness information to make clinical decisions. On balance, I come down thinking that it CHILDHOOD BULLYING: NOT A BIG DEAL? Children have been bullied since — well, since we’ve had childhood. There are now widespread movements to prevent school bullying. It’s clear that bullying was tragic for girls like Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide after first being raped and then cyberbullied by the perpetrators, who sent pictures of the assault to her classmates.But this is an extreme event. WINDOWS 7 SOUND NOT WORKING. HOW TO FIX WITHOUT RESTARTING Obviously this is not about health policy. But the time I have spent searching for a solution could have been spent on health policy. Here’s what happens: I restart my Windows 7 computer before departing from work. Once every month or two, when I log in the next morning, the sound doesn’t work. Restarting the PAID SICK LEAVE IS A WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUE Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila.. Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.I talk more about its importance and why it matters for women’s health in Prism: addresses those who hold up society but are often invisible. BUPRENORPHINE REGULATIONS AND BETTER TREATMENT OF We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist Buprenorphine, is one of them. New regulations have eased the requirements for this waiver, hopefullypaving the
YOUR COVID-19 THOUGHTS ARE NOT CRAZY Your COVID-19 thoughts are not crazy. I’ve spent the last several days having conversations with various colleagues, friends, and family members about the COVID-19 pandemic. The one general truth about all these conversations is this: People are in different places emotionally and thinking about different facets of the crisis. RISK CORRIDORS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO The following is a guest post by Galen Benshoof, a Master in Public Affairs candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he focuses on health policy.Find him on Twitter: @benshoof. Critics of the Affordable Care Act have a new bugbear: a program known as risk corridors, which is part of a trio of premium stabilization mechanisms collectively known as the 3Rs. 1619 PROJECT: LIST OF ARTICLES 1619 Project: list of articles. The articles in The New York Times’ 1619 Project — observing the 400th anniversary of American slavery and its implications — are worth your time, and mine. It’s a beautiful online interactive, but very inconvenient if you want to gradually work you way through the articles over a span of days. ANALYSIS OF “WHAT’S 2/3 OF THE AVERAGE” The 2/3 of the average problem posed on Friday is a well known puzzle in game theory, and it illustrates some fundamental game theoretic concepts. To recap, here’s the problem statement: Suppose everyone in your town selects a real number between 0 and 100, inclusive (i.e. 0 and 100 are both possible choices, as is WHY CONSUMER SURPLUS IS NEGATIVE THE INTEGRAL OF THE To show formally that consumer surplus is the negative of the integral of demand (or that demand is negative the derivative of consumer surplus), one can use the rule for integrating inverses. To do so, let. Q denote quantity and P denote price, Q = D (P) be the demand function, and the equilibrium quantity and price be Q0 and P0,respectively.
OUT-OF-NETWORK PAYMENTS IN MEDICARE ADVANTAGE The complexity of Medicare Advantage (MA) physician networks has been well-documented, but the payment regulations that underlie these plans remain opaque, even to experts. If an MA plan enrollee sees an out-of-network doctor, how much should she expect to pay? HEALTH CARE MARKET FAILURES (AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT Health care market failures (and what can be done about them) This post complements one yesterday that focused on market failures in health insurance ( read it first ). It’s loosely based on the content of Economics of the Public Sector, by Joe Stiglitz. Here’s a run down of market failures pertaining to the provision of healthcare.
NICUS COST HOW MANY THOUSANDS PER DAY? AND PARENTS NEED Yeah, I know. The government is set to shut down on Tuesday—by non-coincidence the very day health insurance exchanges open for business for ObamaCare. And I’m about to talk about hospital parking? Bear with me. This is actually an important issue: The incredible way our health system so terribly disserves families caringfor loved-ones with
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PAID SICK LEAVE IS A WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUE06/04/2021
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_Cecille Joan Avila is a policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets @cecilleavila._
Paid family and medical leave has been the main focus lately, but paid sick leave is equally important.
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> addresses those who hold up society but are often > invisible. They are women and nonbinary folk, and especially those > who either choose not to have children, or cannot bear the children > they want. They are the women who care for family members in need at > home after long days of caring for others in medical facilities. > They are the women with no one to depend on but themselves, who > still care for the needs of others by working hourly shifts at the > grocery store or holding service industry jobs—deemed essential > last year, but since forgotten. Whether an individual has paid sick leave currently depends either on the state they reside in or their employer. Continuing without a federal paid sick leave policy will only serve to exacerbate pre-existing disparities, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic eases in parts of the United States. Read the full piece, here!
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OVERDIAGNOSIS AND OVERTREATMENT: THE PROVIDER PERSPECTIVE06/03/2021
Elsa Pearson
Elsa Pearson, MPH, is a senior policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She tweets at @epearsonbusph. Research for this piece was supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are widespread practices in the US health care system. Providers feel pressure from patients to “do something” and to protectRead More
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WHAT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO DETECT FRAUD FOR SUD FACILITIES?06/03/2021
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Millions of Americans struggle with substance use disorder, with estimates suggesting as many as 1 in 13 people needed treatment in 2018. Between high demand for services and lack of regulation, this is an area of health care already rife with predatory behavior. Substance use disorder fraud was a significant problem before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it could potentially get even worse.Read More
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CANCER JOURNAL: IMMUNOTHERAPY06/02/2021
Bill Gardner
At the end of April, I received an end-stage diagnosis for my throat cancer. What this means is that although there’s no certainty about when I will die, neither I nor my physicians see a likely path leading to a cure. That doesn’t mean that there is no hope. We are workingon a new
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LAW, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT: JUNE 2021 EDITION06/01/2021
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Below are recent publications from me and my colleagues from Boston University’s Department of Health Law, Policy and Management. You can find all posts in this series here. June 2021 Edition Annas GJ, Beisel CL, Clement K, Crisanti A, Francis S, Galardini M, Galizi R, Grünewald J, Immobile G, Khalil AS, Müller R, Pattanayak V, Petri K,Read More
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PATTERNS FROM A YEAR OF COVID DATA05/28/2021
Tiffany Doherty
Now that we’ve been dealing with Covid-19 for over a year, we have a lot of information to help us understand the kinds of patterns that have emerged. While no one has been left untouched, some communities and groups bore a larger brunt of the impact. @DrTiff_PhDRead More
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LAW, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT: MAY 2021 EDITION05/24/2021
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Below are recent publications from me and my colleagues from Boston University’s Department of Health Law, Policy and Management. You can find all posts in this series here. May 2021 Edition Allen H, Gordon SH, Lee D, Bhanja A, Sommers BD. Comparison of Utilization, Costs, and Quality of Medicaid vs Subsidized Private Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults.Read More
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CANCER JOURNAL: HARD CONVERSATIONS AND DEEP ATTENTION05/21/2021
Bill Gardner
This post is about conversations between friends where one partner has received an end-stage diagnosis. These conversations are hard for both parties. If you are talking to a friend who is likely to die soon You may worry that what you say will be inadequate to their situation. Moreover, people in distress sometimes react whenRead More
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NEW CDC MASK GUIDANCE FOR VACCINATED PEOPLE05/19/2021
Tiffany Doherty
Lots of people are vaccinated against Covid-19 now and wondering what that means for their daily lives. While many activities are back on the table and things are much better than they were, some precautions are still warranted as we try to decrease cases and increase vaccination numbers. We talk about all that as wellRead More
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THE PROPOSED FDA BAN ON MENTHOL CIGARETTES05/18/2021
Tiffany Doherty
Though likely to face many legal challenges, the FDA recently issued a ban on menthol flavoring in traditional cigarettes and cigars. So why the specific ban on menthol? There are lots of reasons ranging from how it may alter the smoking experience to how it affects certain groups. @DrTiff_PhDRead More
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