A paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the effects of price-linked subsidies to aid in the purchase of health insurance.
It is NBER week, starting with a review of a paper on a revised method for analyzing changes in national health spending.
Research in Health Affairs suggests that where a patient goes after surgery determines how much spending is incurred.
Research from England finds that continuity of primary care leads to fewer avoidable hospital admissions.
Potentially avoidable deaths occur when emergency rooms send patients home who may have needed to be admitted to a hospital.
Several recent papers and reports deal with what data CMS collects for Medicare Advantage risk scores and how it collects that data.
A report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development claims there is all kinds of wasted health care spending around the world.
Quality of care improved more for low sociodemographic groups than higher ones under a value-based provider contract in Massachusetts.
A report from the Berkeley Research Group analyzes what proportion of total revenue various parties in the prescription drug manufacturing and distribution chain receive.
A study from the Blue Cross Blue Shield association finds that retail clinic use among their plans is increasing.