Day: January 8, 2013

Psychiatric readmissions: A reader responds

Austin Frakt January 8, 2013

About one of my psychiatric readmissions posts, a reader wrote me, Your comparison to a readmission for another broken bone seems pretty inappropriate. I don’t

Physicians and brand name drugs

Aaron Carroll January 8, 2013

I’ve often put forth my belief that one easy way we could reduce spending is to stop paying for things that don’t work, or more

Physician market power

Austin Frakt January 8, 2013

There’s vastly more economics literature on the effects of hospital market power than physician market power. So, the working paper by Abe Dunn and Adam Hale

Day: January 8, 2013

Psychiatric readmissions: A reader responds

Physicians and brand name drugs

Physician market power

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