The impact of health care prices on affordability can be obvious and direct, as well as indirect and subtle. Great paper, deepening evidence ... now we need actions!

News release: Office of Governor Tim Walz announced inaugural list of Rx of substantial public interest from #mnhealth, a vital step to get actionable data to MN policymakers more: bit.ly/3VIVGXW, PR: bit.ly/3XGtLKL NASHP Stacie Dusetzina @brome Mark Miller

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Terrific partnership between mnhealth and Wilder Foundation to identify the factors contributing to transfer & discharge delays experienced by behavioral health patients in #MN hospitals. Hospitals and #nursing staff were key to conducting this study.

My colleague Sabrina Corlette's examination of insurers' 2025 rate filings reveals one of the biggest flaws in our system: unit prices are driving up our premiums, but insurers are focused on reducing utilization rather than cutting better deals. chirblog.org/its-still-the-…

Two excellent posts in just two days! Fabulous, and thank you. Thrilled that we mnhealth will be collecting data soon in alignment w/one of the policy options available to states.

Some of the finest work of mnhealth’s Health Economics Program. A multi-method study, spanning a two-year investigation, working w/great research partners Wilder Foundation Mathematica MN EHR Consortium Oliver Wyman and others not on this platform

And, I should have added, this work was led by the fabulous Pam Mink who directs the Health Services Research team in the Health Economics Program. A snapshot of other work by the team using the MN APCD is online: tinyurl.com/2jdt2r3d NAHDO APCD Council

Telehealth can be a tool to improve health equity by increasing options for accessing care. But more needs to be done to improve access to telehealth Read the new MDH report from the Study of Telehealth Expansion and Payment Parity and learn more: health.state.mn.us/data/economics…

This was the most multi-method work the Health Economics Program has been doing in a while. And we were able to work with partners in all those areas of investigation. Challenging & fun!

Opaque drug discount program delivered $630 million last year to safety net hospitals, clinics in MN startribune.com/opaque-drug-di…

Minnesota has becomes the first state to release a report examining the 340B drug discount program for "safety-net" hospitals. trib.al/LLDRJiQ

Interesting engagement w/your dry government report. Thanks for the careful read.

WE’RE HIRING: Join the Health Economics Program as a Sr. Survey Researcher. Be the MDH lead to maintain, evolve & use data from the Minnesota Health Access Survey, a research partnership between MDH & UMN/SPH. Apply by February 10 at tinyurl.com/5eucpcbe (Job ID 81377).