Mark Miller
@MarkMiller_DC
Executive VP of Health Care at Arnold Ventures - a philanthropy working to increase fairness. Thoughts my own.
ID:1016337691921846272
09-07-2018 15:06:03
2,7K Tweets
2,5K Followers
1,1K Following
New study from Petris Center and UC Law San Francisco is the third study to find price increases after cross-market hospital mergers, noting prices increased almost 13% in the 6 years following acquisition – with no metric showing quality improvements.
Read more: statnews.com/2024/04/23/hos…
How does switching a health care payment model from mandatory to voluntary affect hospital incentives and government spending? J-PAL North America Co-Scientific Director Amy Finkelstein and affiliated researcher Neale Mahoney explore this question in this paper: povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/imp…
MA markets with larger benchmark cuts absorbed the cuts without shrinking the MA market, suggesting that insurers maintained benefits valued by marginal enrollees.
See the full paper + editorial for more:
Editorial: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…
Paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…
(5/5)
🚨 New paper alert! “Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?” with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet that’s forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights. TLDR: Yes…there has been way too little enforcement. 🧵