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Ukraine’s cancer children. Is AI for medicine overhyped? Where is antitrust litigation heading? What is the future of the workplace post-COVID? Do pharmacists have prescribing authority?
Month: March 2022
What is collider bias?
A paper by Holmberg et al. (2022) in JAMA provides a number of examples of how collider bias can lead to problematic causal inference. The term collider bias is often invoked when using directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to map the causal pathway. Collider bias occurs when you aim to measure the impact of A on…
Are high-deductible plans the best choice?
For many individuals with employer-provided health insurance, a recent paper by Liu and Sydnor (2022) find that this is indeed the case. The authors use data from the 2011-2016 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Employer Health Benefits Survey (EHBS). The authors examine the maximum out-of-pocket cost (including both premiums and maximum cost-sharing) as well as whether…
Medicare Advantage 2022 enrollment on the rise
Fierce Healthcare reports that in 2022 Medicare Advantage enrollment is continuing to grow at the expense of traditional fee-for-service Medicare. They write that: Medicare Advantage plans signed up another 2.3 million beneficiaries for the 2022 coverage year, with the program now making up 45% of all Medicare enrollment, a new study found. …total 2022 enrollment…
Quotations of the Day: On presentations
It’s not what you tell your players that counts. It’s what they hear. Red Auerbach, former coach of the Boston Celtics The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw
Cross-border medical care in Europe
In Europe, some patients are able to seek medical care in other countries. Reasons for doing so include shorter waiting times, access to treatment that is no obtainable in their home country’s public health care system, quality of care, and costs. Cross-border medical care affects many people: “20 to 24 million patients worldwide spending an…
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Alcohol deaths during COVID. Operation Warp Speed: “scaling not discovering”. Expedited drug approval programs around the world. Should medical errors lead to jail time? Travel nursing: a problem or solution?
Did health care productivity really decline in recent decades?
Based on analysis from National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs), multifactor productivity (MFP) in the health care and social assistance sector declined by 0.4% per between 1987 and 2018. On the other hand, the economy as a whole experience a 0.9% increase in MFP. With new technology, telehealth, gene therapies, treatments going generic, is it…
History and Future of the “ISPOR Value Flower”
That is the name of a recent paper in Value in Health from three of pharmacoeconomics field’s leading scholars: Peter Neumann, Lou Garrison and Richard Wilke. The paper begins by comparing the ISPOR value flower against the recommendations from the Second Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Intervention types. The ISPOR Value Flower…
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Provider prices: Non-group vs. employer-provided health insurance. Does telehealth work for long-term care? Should health plans exclude “star” hospitals from their network? Sutter wins anti-trust case. Are patients good at price shopping?\ There is no such thing as countries. The future of surfing.