Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
This is according to a recent Viewpoint in JAMA from Binger, Chen and Harder (2022). On July 26, 2022, US News & World Report published new and updated health equity measures for hospitals featured on the publication’s website… Each equity measure was developed under a framework comprising 3 domains: access, outcomes, and social determinants of…
The 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Svante Pääbo. Unlike many former winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. Pääbo never actually invented any specific medicine or class of medicine. Rather the award was given “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. The press release from the Nobel…
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. The award was given for the laureates role in improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. The Nobel website summarizes their contribution as follows: For the economy to function, savings must be channelled to investments. However, there is a conflict…
Interesting graphic from the Visual Capitalist. Unsurprisingly health care spending increases on both a relative and absolute scale as people age. HT: The Browser.
Republicans abandon Obamacare repeal? “…children with Medicaid coverage in Oregon will be able to keep their coverage until the age of 6” 2023 AEA Officers. Physician burnout. Should we move on from readmissions reduction measure?
Thank you to Dr. Daniel Tomaszewski and the University of Southern California’s Health Care Decision Analysis (HCDA) program for brining me in as a guest speaker this weekend. I truly enjoyed my time with the students. As they posted on LinkedIn: Thanks to guest speaker Jason Shafrin of FTI Consulting, for joining us in the Health Economics…
It is well known that excessive use of alcohol causes significant health impacts. CDC notes that Excessive alcohol use led to more than 140,000 deaths and 3.6 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2015 – 2019, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of…
The answer is provided in a recent white paper by Pearson, Schapiro and Pearson (2022). They use IQVIA data through 2020 across 389 drugs treating 1.8 million individuals. The study finds that while 5% of drugs with an orphan indication cost more than $500,000 per year, these drugs make up only 0.08% of all patients…