Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
That is what various government bodies are considering. First lets turn to Medicaid via a report by Tyrus Jackson in JD Supra, The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) voted on January 27 to recommend that Congress grant states the ability to limit Medicaid coverage for drugs and biologicals approved under the FDA’s…
The answer is ‘yes’ according to a paper by French (2023):. The authors use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) as well as high-frequency returns data for the S&P 500. The study finds that: …a one standard deviation increase in cumulative [negative wealth] shocks over two years increases the probability of elevated blood…
ChatGPT app is the fastest growing ever. Flint housing market after water supply contamination. Au Revoir, Public Health Emergency. State-owned enterprises and bank lending in China. Medicaid benefits and the homestead exemption.
How well did payers provide “fair” access policies? Based on an recent ICER report titled “Assessment of Barriers to Fair Access“, the headline figures seem pretty good: Overall rates of concordance with ICER’s criteria were 70% for cost sharing of fairly-priced drugs, 96% for clinical eligibility criteria, 98% for step therapy, and 100% for provider…
According to a recent paper by Wallace (2023), the answer is ‘yes’, but it does so in a highly inefficient manner. Using 2008-2012 Medicaid data from the New York State Department of Health, the author find that: Leveraging the random assignment of over 50,000 Medicaid enrollees in New York, I present causal evidence that narrower…
Si un hombre nunca se contradice, será porque nunca dice nada. Miguel de Unamuno
In short, the answer is ‘no’. The full rationale is here, but here is an excerpt from their policy: Nonhuman artificial intelligence, language models, machine learning, or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship.If these models or tools are used to create content or assist with writing or manuscript preparation, authors must take responsibility for…
Every year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) makes projections of what the federal budget will look like, in particular, what the government debt and annual deficits will be. Note that these should not be seen as forecasts since CBO projections aim to measure what will happen over the next 10 years assuming no change to…
In the past, I have written about the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), including an overview of the EOM program as well as a more detailed review of EOM’s payment methodology. A new paper in JAMA Health Forum by Kocher and Adashi (2023) describes their perspective on the EOM program. First, they provide a nice overview…
AI and healthcare spending. Referral incentives for TB screening. A better measure of population density. IVI: “No value without equity” Medicaid’s multi-generational health benefit. How do people use ‘work from home’ time savings?