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LLM approach expert levels in ophthalmology. Price controls in health care (Argentina) Will bird flu (H5N1) animal pandemic spread to humans? Lex Fridman interview with Mark Cuban (with discussion of Cost Plus Drugs) Spotlight on Medicare’s Chronic Care Management program.
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have a number of advantages and drawbacks over traditional Medicare (TM) (i.e., fee-for-service). One advantage of MA plans is that cost sharing is often lower. Another benefit is that enrollees may receive additional coverage benefits. One drawback is that enrollee provider choice may be restricted. Fewer provider options may be bad…
Some key trends to watch from some of my colleagues at FTI in their article The Evolution of Healthcare: Trends to Watch in 2024. Commercialization of Healthcare. Over the past decade, private equity’s presence in the healthcare sector has significantly accelerated, with annual deal values soaring from $41.5 billion in 2010 to $119.9 billion in…
Samsung Bioepis has a Biosimilar Market Report for Q2 2024. Some key highlights: As of April 2024, the FDA has approved a total of 48 biosimilars across 15 unique biological molecules. Of the 48 approvals, 38 biosimilars have launched in the US market. In Q2 2024, 3 new biosimilars were approved in the US (Simlandi…
While robust data is preferred when parameterizing economic models, this information is not always available. For instance, it may be unclear the degree to which clinical trial results would translate to the real world. Or, clinical trial results may need to be extrapolated beyond the time period of the trial. Or, there may simply be…
I will be speaking on two panels at the upcoming ISPOR 2024 conference in Atlanta, GA. Myfirst panel “Economic Insights Into Nutrition: Unlocking the Value in Chronic Disease Management” on Tuesday, May 7, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of economic evaluation of nutrition interventions and compare economic analysis of nutrition interventions with analysis of…
Congratulations to Philipp Strack who has won the 2024 John Bates Clark Medal. The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded annually each April to that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. The American Economic Association webpage has a nice…
For patients with serious illnesses, timeline access to efficacious medications is paramount. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was created in part to help expedite drug approvals and insure these products are save and effective. As stated in a paper by Grünwald and Stargardt (2024): The EMA [European Medicines Agency] was founded in 1995 primarily to…
That is the topic from a recent study by Hayes et al. (2024): Payments for some diagnostic scans undertaken in outpatient settings were unbundled from Diagnosis Related Group based payments in England in April 2013 to address under-provision. Unbundled scans attracted additional payments of between £45 and £748 directly following the reform. We examined the…
Generative AI for economists. Juvenile curfews on teenage birth rates. Cato on Biden Short‐Term Health Plans Rule. Parents’ education on children’s earnings. DTx for MDD.