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Nursing home administrators opinions on COVID-19 Home births on the rise. Physician work-life balance: 2001-2021 Cross country comparison: Health financing and health outcomes Top scientific advances of 2022.
Month: December 2022
The Role of Intellectual Property in the Biopharmaceutical Sector
That is the title of an FTI White Paper published this year where I was a co-author alongside Antoine Mialhe, Sabiha Quddus, Anne-Sophie Deman, Suhail Thahir and Agnes Sipiczki. The role of Intellectual property (IP) in the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics became a central tenant in discussions on how to ensure access to…
2022 Books of the Year
These are the favorite books I have read this year . They may or may not have been published this year. Relative to other years, I read a fair number of good, but not great books and thus my list is fairly short. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang. This…
2021 US National Health Expenditures
A paper in Health Affairs by Martin, Hartman, Benson, Catlin, and The National Health Expenditure Accounts Team (2022) finds that national health expenditures (NHE) rose but declined as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). Health care spending in the US grew 2.7 percent to reach $4.3 trillion in 2021, a much slower rate than the increase…
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Reference pricing in Germany. End of life therapy after checkpoint inhibitors. Private equity and healthcare. medRxiv vs. peer-reviewed journals. Health benefits of long-term care insurance.
Can you emulate clinical trials with observational data?
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard of experimental research, there are some limitations. For instance, in some cases use of an RCT is not feasible (e.g., the sample size may be too small as in the case of rare disease), not ethical (e.g., if the previous standard of care is not effective)…
Increased access to articles in JAMA
JAMA and it’s related sister journals as part of the JAMA Network have adopted a new publishing policy, moving the journal not entirely into the open access space, but one that will give individuals access to JAMA articles on other sites. JAMA editors write: Beginning in 2023, JAMA and all of the journals in the JAMA Network…
Enhancing Oncology Model: Payment Methodology
Back in July, I provided an overview of the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM). Today I build upon that post focusing largely on CMS’s EOM’s Payment Methodology. I use a Q&A format as well. What is the goal of EOM? According to CMS “EOM is a CMMI alternative payment model designed to advance health equity, promote…
Factors impacting state variation in health care spending
A Health Affairs Forefront article by Johnson and Dieleman (2022) published last week using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) State Health Expenditure Accounts (SHEA) data. A previous study looked at these data through 2014, but the recent publication updates this analysis through 2019. The authors first use a age- and sex-standardized health…
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Do doctors get too much or too little respect? Why you should use a matched-pair design for your RCT. Fertility care and sickle cell disease. Pandemic’s impact on workers’ comp financials. Incentives matter.