Year: 2013

Coming clean on catastrophic

In an email exchange with Jed Graham about his post, I wrote, I suppose if the catastrophic premium were low enough, the deductible is almost

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Medicare Advantage spillovers

In a new NBER working paper, Katherine Baicker, Michael Chernew, and Jacob Robbins estimate the extent to which Medicare Advantage (MA) induces changes in other

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Stand Up! – May 30, 2013

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

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What does California show?

A number of you have written me in the last few minutes to shout that everyone is wrong about California. Some of you are charging

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Overuse is systemic

A new paper by Keyhani et al. titled “Overuse and Systems of Care: A Systematic Review” caught my eye. I’m a sucker for systematic reviews, particularly

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DRGs in Europe

European countries often look to the United States for inspiration and innovation in ways of organizing and paying for health care. I know! I can

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