New paper! Led by brilliant colleague Craig Pollack we use all-payer hospital discharge & Medicaid data & find children in MTO HH who received voucher had hospital admissions rates 36% lower for asthma, 30% lower for mental health disorders than control grp tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A new study led by Craig Pollack found that housing policies that reduce neighborhood poverty exposure as a child are associated with long-term differences in healthcare use like asthma, mental health, and diabetes. Read more: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

As students are starting to think about PhD applications, please allow me to plug the PhD program here in the Department of Health Policy and Management (@JHSPH_HPM)! publichealth.jhu.edu/academics/phd-…

As always, great to work with the terrific Tradeoffs team! Many thanks for highlighting the work of HCCI! Dan Gorenstein Leslie Walker

Interested in using data to understand and address our thorniest health policy challenges? Come work with us!

Hi Twitter! I’m Zach, a health policy researcher at RAND. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to tweet, so I’m activating this account! I’ll be tweeting about health tech, improving value of health care delivery, and getting patients more involved in health care.

New report from U.S. CBO using HCCI commercial claims dataset shows wide price variation between commercial and Medicare prices for hospitals’ and physicians’ services. #HCCIdata informs policymakers and researchers. cbo.gov/publication/57…

Treating your loved one on Valentine’s Day can be expensive... but so is being treated by an ER doctor. Be careful out there! healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/… #HealthPolicyValentines #HCCIdata

2020 data is🌟now available🌟to users of HCCI’s commercial claims dataset. The dataset contains claims for ~55 million enrollees per year in all 50 states and DC, from 2012 to 2020! For the first time, researchers can study the impact of #COVID19 on the US health care system.

There is so much guidance on recovery after sports injuries except for the moms who want to return to sport. Check out our latest manuscript (free) with recommendations for return to running Rita Deering PhD Amanda Olson, DPT,PRPC journals.lww.com/jwhpt/Fulltext…

New Report Alert 🚨: We used #HCCIdata to analyze spending and utilization on COVID-19 tests in 2020. Consistent with policies intended to protect people from OOP costs for COVID tests, nearly all tests in our data cost $0 OOP. healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/…

Congratulations to my student Brendan Rabideau on your successful dissertation defense. Dr. Rabideau—we are so proud of you!

✨2020 Healthy Marketplace Index report now available, made possible by RWJF!✨ HMI provides local data on health care spending in 186 metro areas, plus factors that impact spending like price and use of services. How does your area stack up? #HMI healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

How did the first year of the pandemic affect the health care system? Unevenly across metro areas! 🔹Use of services fell in 179/186 metros 🔹Prices rose in 164 metros 🔹Socially vulnerable communities were more likely to see a rise in inpatient admissions bit.ly/3Rk3gVZ

It's important for those who use claims data for research and policy to understand the ESI population. New HCCI study looks at where people with health insurance through their job live in terms of area-level social vulnerability, poverty, and rurality. bit.ly/3PMlYU0

HPD Journal’s Paper of the Year 2024 has been selected! ⭐️ Check out Craig Pollack, Debra Bozzi, Amanda Blackford, Stefanie DeLuca Rachel Thornton, and Bradley Herring’s award winning paper… (1/4)