The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2017, The New York Times Company). As health care costs rise, Americans are increasingly on the hook to pay
The following is a guest post by Michael Chernew and Aaron Schwartz. Michael is a health economist and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical
In 2008, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina initiated a value-based insurance design program that reduced coopayments for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and congestive heart
In response to the recent content on high deductible health plans, by email, a reader asked, I am wondering what you all may think about high
The July issue of Health Affairs included a systematic review of observational studies of value-based insurance design for prescription drugs. I summarized it in a post
This is a guest post from Adrianna McIntyre, a graduate student studying health policy at the University of Michigan. Adrianna currently blogs at Project Millennial, tweets at @onceuponA,
Austin and I have a piece over at Bloomberg View: The U.S. spends $2.8 trillion a year on health care, about 18 percent of the
New manuscript in Health Affairs, “Health Care Cost Containment Strategies Used In Four Other High-Income Countries Hold Lessons For The United States“: Around the world,
Sound Medicine is a radio show produced by the Indiana University School of Medicine and WFYI Public Radio. In the last few years, I’ve become
I’ve received a number of emails about Ezekiel Emanuel’s and Steven Pearson’s op-ed in the NYT on Monday. I admit, part of the reason I haven
If my daughter doesn’t take her asthma medication, she’ll end up in the ER. I’m not exaggerating. Just ask Aaron, whom I’ve called at late
On May 5, 2011, CMS published the 2012 Proposed Hospital IPPS Rule [76 Fed Reg 25788]. If you want to understand the nuts and bolts
