“There’s a large body of research showing that health care consolidation leads to increases in prices without clear evidence it improves quality,” said Zachary Levinson...“There’s some concern that, for example, when a larger health system buys up a smaller independent hospital in a different region, that hospital will become less attentive to the specific needs of the community it serves...”

https://stateline.org/2023/09/07/some-states-back-hospital-mergers-despite-record-of-service-cuts-price-hikes/

#healthcare #hospitals #mergers #businessofmedicine #healtheconomics

@mike_johansen @STAT @missanabeem

It's a good reminder that talk is cheap and money has an impact on #medicalstudents and #physicians.

"...We find that these policies in turn affect the type and quantity of medical care physicians supply in the short run; retirement timing in the medium run; and earnings affect specialty choice in the long run."

Also I didn't include the link to the paper:

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BFI_WP_2023-95.pdf

#healthecon #healtheconomics
#economics #uchicago

"The best-paid doctors in America work in the Dakotas, where they averaged $524,000 (South) and $468,000 (North) in 2017 in their prime earning years, including business income and capital gains. That’s well above the already astonishing $405,000 the average U.S. doctor made in the prime earning years, defined here as 40 to 55."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/11/doctor-pay-geography/

#doctors #medicine #income #healtheconomics

New #healtheconomics paper on the costs of of a diverting #ileostomy or #colostomy (ostomies, "stoma"):

In #rectalcancer IBD and other conditions, ostomies can help with anastomotic leakage and mucosal healing.

However, some patients end up with a permanent stoma.

What if permanent stomas could in some cases be avoided?

There are endoluminal devices being developed that might reduce the number of patients who needs stoma (full disclosure: our study sponsor SafeHeal is developing one)

"Many insurers, after whittling down physicians' reimbursements, now take an additional cut if the doctor prefers — as almost all do — to receive funds electronically rather than via a paper check...With more than $2 trillion a year of medical claims paid electronically, these fees likely add up to billions of dollars that could be spent on care but instead are going to insurers and middlemen."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/15/1193754380/why-doctors-pay-millions-in-fees-that-could-be-spent-on-care

#healthcare #healtheconomics #insurance

While everyone on #econtwitter is using the summer to finally write all these cool #HealthEconomics papers, we have a nice #CallforPapers once you are done: Come join us for the Health Econometrics Workshop of the German Health Economics Association (dggö) 30Nov-1Dec in Linz ✌️Submit until 15th October. More info here: https://file.dggoe.de/ausschuesse/gesundheitsoekonometrie/CfP2023_HealthEconometrics.pdf

How's *your* coffee break?

#Firenze #summerschool #bayesian #healtheconomics

Just arrived in Florence --- let the summer school fun begin!!

#summerschool #Bayesian #healtheconomics

You know it... It *looks* like I was doing something for the presentation, but in reality, I was just checking my emails... 😂

#aes #girona #survival #bayesian #healtheconomics #costeffectiveness

And another one: we're now fully booked! I think registration will remain open to start a waiting list, just in case...

Looking forward to it!

#florence #summerschool #bayesian #hta #healtheconomics #costeffectiveness

Cost effectiveness analysis is a helpful tool to use when evaluating interventions or health policies. This type of analysis can be helpful to policy makers when deciding how to address a public health issue. To learn more, be sure to check out these video resources on the CHERISH website!
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#syndemicslab #bostonmedicalcenter #economics #research #healtheconomics #costeffective #economicanalysis #healthpolicy

#Blockchain is a technology that allows the secure and decentralized recording of transactions, which makes it useful in various fields, including #HealthEconomics

https://medium.com/jose-a-vidal/machine-learning-health-economics-1f99c6fd964c

For this week’s #SyndemicsLabSpotlight we are highlighting Mathieu Castry, a health economist working with the HEALing Communities Study!
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#healtheconomics #publichealth #simulationmodel #bostonmedicalcenter

In beautiful Utrecht to speak about VoI #voi #convoi #healtheconomics

Quick update. 3 places left for our summer school. Register yours soon!

#bayesian #healtheconomics #modelling #rstats #florence #costeffectiveness #valueofinformation

This week in the print version in Medical decision Making (yay!):

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272989X221134545

#healtheconomics #blendedSurvivalCurves #Bayesian #costeffectiveness

Curious about how to improve care for high-needs patients while managing costs?

https://cheos.ubc.ca/events/wip-seminar-mar-8-2023/

You're invited to our upcoming #WiPSeminar with new CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Logan Trenaman on March 8 at 12:15 pm PT.

#healtheconomics #research #scicomm

@bicmay @rvaughnmd In our experience, low income patients find us less expensive than local hospital ($160 or $300 for the two most common visit types) plus we get them labs and generic meds for 20% over wholesale (labs are 3-5x more at the hospital).

We encourage #medicaid or a subsidized ACA plan which works well for care beyond #DPC but 20% are still uninsured. Both of those work well with DPC (paid out of pocket).

#directprimarycare
#costsofcare
#healtheconomics

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If you are caring for someone who is ill, what is the value of that time?

https://www.cheos.ubc.ca/research-in-action/time-is-money-the-valuation-of-lost-productivity-questionnaire/

Drs. Wei Zhang, Nick Bansback, and Aslam Anis are working with caretakers, including Katrina Prescott, to apply the lost productivity tool VOLP on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded project.

#research #caretaker #healthcare #economics #healtheconomics

I was revisiting this now a bit dated paper on outpatient care utilisation in #Germany (data from 2008, published 2014):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24123586/

Apart from being still one of the few papers that investigates regional differences in GP, specialist, & #Psychotherapy consultations on county ("Kreis") level, its use of annual average levels of particulate matter (environment pollution) shows a broader #HealthEconomics approach to identifying drivers of health care utilisation.