Job Alert: I was talking to Melinda B. Buntin and she is hiring for an Senior Modeler to work in her new Center at Hopkins (link below). She's not active on twitter anymore so I offered to tweet. Real cool job: reach out to her directly if interested!
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Good write-up of the FTC noncompete ban & its potential effects on health care markets (supposing it survives legal challenges):

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From Erin Schumaker

'We've got an FTC that's really good at what they do but has a ton on their plate, and we sort of starved them of resources,' Zack Cooper said.

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We're live-blogging today's oral arguments in the emergency abortion case.

Join us here! washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

NEW w/ Josh Gerstein: Abortion is back at the Supreme Court today. Here's what both sides (Idaho GOP v. the Biden admin) will argue, the justices to watch, how it could impact states beyond Idaho and how it could impact health care beyond abortion. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Earlier today, the FTC voted 3 to 2 in favor of banning non-compete clauses in all employer/employee contracts, with no exceptions. Along with the vote, the FTC has issued a final rule, finalizing it proposal from January 2023 to ban non-compete clauses.

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Potentially large ramifications for health care, where noncompetes have become common in physician groups acquired by hospitals & private equity firms.

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Sooo.....we did another thing @cdcgov CDC Tracking Network today we launched a new HeatRisk Dashboard, the result of a multi-year project with @nws and @noaa – with this you can see county level heat risk info on a dashboard and look up a 7-day HeatRisk forecast for your zipcode

Reading between the lines here, hospitals appear more afraid of criminal and civil charges for providing abortions to patients in a medical emergency than they are of federal penalties for turning those patients away.

We at CBPP are in a search for a Chief Economist or Visiting Scholar.

This is a great opportunity at a wonderful place at a key time. Take a look and help us spread the word.

Thanks!

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A new paper with Calvin Ackley, Abe Dunn, and Eli Liebman showing that Medicare recipients recieve 20% more services than Medicaid patients (including high-value care)

We track over 22 thousand Medicaid recipients who become 'dual enrolled' in Medicare when they turn 65.

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'Even though we served under presidents for different parties, we both recommended that Congress adopt policies advancing site-neutral payments to save patients and taxpayers money.'

- former HHS Secretaries Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius

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Brookings Center on Health Policy is hiring!

We have 2 openings:

- Research assistant: for folks graduating college to a few years out w/ background in economics, math, CS

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- Staff assistant: Administrative support

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One of the more straightforward abuses of market power that I have seen from insurers is Medicare Advantage plans requiring a right of first refusal to buy an independent practice, as a condition of participating in a large/dominant plan’s network.