In July, I wrote about a study that investigated the extent to which Medicare Advantage (MA) plans promoted better health outcomes relative to traditional, fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
The following is jointly authored by Austin, Aaron, and Sam Richardson. Our letter to The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) was rejected on the
I am a frequent guest on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, which airs on Sirius/XM radio, channel 104 from 6-9AM Eastern. It immediately replays on the channel, so
In this week’s JAMA Pediatrics, “Impact of Dietary and Exercise Interventions on Weight Change and Metabolic Outcomes in Obese Children and Adolescents“: Importance Diet and exercise
Absolutely frightening editorial on a new study in JAMA Pediatrics on the dangers from radiation in scans in children. It’s called “The Harm in Looking”,
Medicare beneficiaries are living about two years longer today than a couple of decades ago. A fundamental question debated in the literature, however, is whether
By eight important health economists, with support from the National Research Institute and the American Enterprise Institute (ungated PDF here): First, we allow and encourage
The following is a guest post by Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Law. Another week, another legal kerfuffle over the implementation of the
Editor’s Note: Just so you’re aware, comments conveying anecdotal stories or arguing that anecdotes matter here will not be approved. I got into a twitter
Today’s chart comes from the recent GAO report on delivery of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for prostate cancer among Medicare patients by physician groups that do and
True, Americans don’t understand some fundamentally important details of Obamacare very well. But it’s not just Obamacare. They don’t understand lots of fundamentally important details
The US has split over whether to implement the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act. The dark blue states are expanding Medicaid. Let’s imagine
