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How to use Chat GPT. Caregivers: ‘I Wish I Had Known That No One Was Going to Help Me’ 4 health issues for the 2024 Presidential Election. Issues with HDHPs. Measles outbreak in the UK.
A primer on brand-name prescription drug reimbursement in the US
That is the title of a recent paper by Hernandez and Hung (2024). The article provides an excellent review of how drugs get reimbursed in the US and who the key players are. I provide an abbreviated summary below, but do read the full article. The players Manufacturers research, develop, and bring new drug products…
Did the Affordable Care Act crowd out private health insurance?
According to a recent paper by Lennon et al. (2023), about half of the increase in health insurance exchange coverage due to ACA was from individuals who otherwise would have purchased private insurance. The study abstract is below. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided funding to help states expand Medicaid eligibility to those earning up…
Screening vs. treatment: What caused the reduction in breast cancer mortality since 1975?
That is the answer Caswell-Jin et al. (2024) aim to answer. The authors used 4 cancer mortality models within CISNET for this study: Model D (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). Used to define a set of disease states and implemented analytic formulations to estimate the association of interventions on transitions between these states, as well as on…
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Milton Friedman’s thermostat. CDC: Low vaccination rates for COVID, flu and RSV. Are minorities more commonly misdiagnosed? Does economic insecurity cause obesity? Do wellness programs work?
ISPOR’s Top 10 HEOR Trends
These trends are summarized on their webpage and in a larger report. Here they are with some key excerpts from their report: Real world Evidence. “As RWE continues to gain significant traction in healthcare, agencies including the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), The National Institute for Health and…
The opioid epidemic
epidemic. noun an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time : an outbreak of epidemic disease an outbreak or product of sudden rapid spread, growth, or development The opioid epidemic is one that has impact a large number of Americans. Data from 2019 shows that there were over…
Disparities in cancer mortality between Blacks and Whites
A paper by Gupta and Akinyemiju (2024) uses SEER data to examine trends in age-adjusted cancer mortality between blacks and whites between 2000 and 2020. The authors find that: In 2000, the [age-adjusted mortality] rate was 251.7 per 100 000 population among Black individuals and 199.7 per 100 000 population among White individuals, decreasing to 166.8 per…
Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care
That is the title of a paper by Bodnar et al. 2023. A summary of this interesting paper is below. Overview of general practitioners in the UK Under the English National Health Service (NHS) program, …patients register with a single general practice that acts as the gatekeeper to most other NHS services, including non-emergency hospital…
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Physician access limitations to those with cold or flu in Spain. Big investments in AlphaFold’s AI. Vaccination tipping point? New CMS legislation on prior authorization. Republican candidates on health care.