Publications

January 12, 2024 | Publication

Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior

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.
January 11, 2024 | Publication

An Innovation-Driven Future For The Food And Drug Administration

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.
November 28, 2023 | Publication

Hospital Prices in Medicaid Managed Care

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.