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Battle Royale: Small molecules vs. biologics

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allows the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to negotiate drug prices. However, CMS can only negotiated drug prices 9 years after drug approval for small molecules and 13 years after approval for large molecules. Why the difference? Do biologic treatments produce superior health benefits for patients? ...

Fri Nov 8, 2024 05:15
How does competition impact community health center quality of care?

That is the question posted by a recent paper by Li and Dor (2024). However, they define competition not just by the number of community health center (CHC) competitors or market concentration (e.g., Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, HHI) but also the quality of care provided by their competitors. A key methodological question is how this should be measured....

Thu Nov 7, 2024 09:17
A Retrospective Claims Analysis of the Rate of Complications in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria

That is the title of my recent paper with co-authors Denise Clayton, Glorian Yen, Lincy Geevarghese, Yulin Shi Anem Waheed. The abstract is below. Introduction Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare blood disease associated with complications that increase morbidity, such as thrombosis and chronic kidney disease. Limited data...

Tue Nov 5, 2024 20:37
Should Dynamic Drug Pricing be Incorporated into Cost-Effectiveness Analyses?

Cost effectiveness analyses (CEA) aim to examine how a new health technologies impact health outcomes and costs over a patient’s lifetime. While extrapolating long-run health benefits and measuring potential cost offsets are important, another important item to estimate is how the cost of the new health technology is likely to evolve over times. This...

Tue Nov 5, 2024 06:10
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Fri Nov 1, 2024 06:44
Merchants of Death

That is the clever title of recent American Economic Review publication by Cyrus Aghamolla, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Xuelin Li, Richard T. Thakor. The abstract is below. This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships...

Thu Oct 31, 2024 08:16

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