Publications

A unique feature of health care markets, recognized by Arrow (1963), is that a physician, the supplier of medical services, is expected to act in the patient’s best interest.

With a variety of candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination and President Joe Biden seeking re-election in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, health policy will remain a central issue for voters in the 2024 election.

Hospitalization is the standard of care for acute illness, but hospital care is often expensive, unsafe, and uncomfortable (1).

Patients with cancer face a crisis due to an ongoing shortage of essential chemotherapeutic drugs.

Hearing loss has been identified as an independent risk factor for negative health outcomes and mortality. However, whether rehabilitation with hearing aid use is associated with lower mortality is currently unknown. This study aimed to examine the associations of hearing loss, hearing aid use, and mortality in the USA.

Biosimilar uptake in the United States is limited. It has not been comprehensively studied in Medicare Advantage (MA).

85% of C-suite leadership is white, compared with only 68% of the patient population. 3 healthcare leaders write their prescription for the cure.

As of 2020, 70% of Medicaid beneficiaries (57 million) were insured through Medicaid managed care (MMC), in which a private insurer covers a beneficiary’s medical care in exchange for fixed payments from state Medicaid agencies.1 A key role of MMC insurers is to negotiate prices with hospitals. MMC prices have important implications for government health expenditures and access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries. However, little is known about MMC prices.2 We used hospitals’ self-disclosed pricing information to characterize MMC hospital prices.

Abstract Objective: This study aimed to determine the influence of structural racism, vis-à-vis neighborhood socioeconomic trajectory, on colorectal and breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Classification systems to segment such patients into subgroups for purposes of care management and population analytics should balance administrative simplicity with clinical meaning and measurement precision.