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How have discrete choice experiments changed over time? This is the question Soekhai et al. (2018) try to answer. They conduct a systematic literature review covering 27 years of data. Below I summarize some of their findings graphically. First, you see a trend of an increasing number of DCEs. We also see that whereas DCEs…
$25.5m verdict against Aetna. “New, simpler economic models” for PBMs Cost of ageism: $63 billion. What is the FDA doing about opioids? Value-based drug pricing in Michigan’s Medicaid program. Leading health care moneymakers. HRRP works in California. Access to pharmaceuticals in China.
Much of the discussions of the pros and cons of single payer systems are ideological. Single payer advocates will say they are fair, potentially can leverage economies of scale, and more equitable. Single payer opponents will argue that they are inefficient, and restrict choice. An interesting paper from Tomoki Fuji (2018), shows that the answer…
From Sen and DeLeire (2018): …premiums of Marketplace plans are 11% lower in Medicaid expansion states, controlling for demographic and health characteristics as well as measures of health care access. These results are consistent with evidence on the composition of the private insurance risk pool in expansion versus nonexpansion states and associated differences in expected…
Oftentimes, you will ready a study that says, treatment A reduces the rate of something by X%, or the treatment reduces the risk by Y%, or reduces the odds by Z%. These are basically the same thing, right? That is not entirely correct. While all these concepts summarize the frequency or likelihood of something occuring…
Lisa Lines of The Medical Care Blog hosts this month’s edition of the Health Wonk Review. Lisa blogs from San Diego as she is attending the American Public Health Association annual meeting. The HWR edition talks about HRRP, income eligibility for the health insurance exchanges, pharmacists as providers, Medicaid expansion and many other topics. Check…
The placebo effect is well-known in medicine. Give people a sugar pill, they have shown, and those patients — especially if they have one of the chronic, stress-related conditions that register the strongest placebo effects and if the treatment is delivered by someone in whom they have confidence — will improve. Tell someone a normal…
That is the question asked by Peter Neumann, Madison Silver, and Joshua T. Cohen in their recent Health Affairs blog article. The authors use publicly-available information from ICER reports, in order to analyze committee member votes across 48 treatments assessed by ICER. ICER reports considered were published between December 2014 and August 2018. As shown…
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