Use the new & improved #HealthyMarketplace dashboard view to explore all these metrics, hospital market concentration & more. See how your area stacks up to similar metros #HCCIdata healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

New health-spending analysis frm HCCI. Bad news includes Herfindahl scores, measuring metro hospital monopolies. DOJ considers anything over 2,500 "highly concentrated." Albuquerque: 7,600! Provo, UT: 7,500!! Columbia, MO: 7,000. Wichita: 5,700. healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

Updates to our HMI Index are live! Track + compare healthcare spending, prices, utilization + service mix in 124 different metropolitan areas. Download metro specific reports. Thanks to Katherine Hempstead and RWJF for funding and the team at HCCI and The DataFace for the work!

ICYMI: HCCI updated our #HealthyMarketplace Index with new data and metro-area snapshots of 124 local markets! Check out this thread for top level findings or explore how your area stacks up here 👉 healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

Check out 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝘇 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 in this years #HealthyMarketplace report while exploring commercial health care spending in your area! 🌟 Downloadable fact sheets detailing spending & spending drivers are available for all 124 metros. rb.gy/lrq9bw

1/ Across the U.S., spending on health care has increased significantly since 2013. Our latest project with HCCI dives deep into why that is. (THREAD) healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

Caroline Hopkins JMP: "Flood Hazard Mitigation and the Role of the Government: A Dynamic Model of Local Government Investment in a Public Good" Website: sites.google.com/view/carolineh…

Just devastating news - listening to Tommy call games was honestly a treat. We'll make sure the refs still get an earful and make irrational Celtics player comparisons for you, Tommy.

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My friend Katya models the drug development process, and uses the estimates from her model to predict effects of different gov't policies aimed at increasing the # of drugs that reach the market.

New #HealthyMarketplace Index release 🚨 HCCI researchers explored actual prices paid for 6 common services and found 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 differences in both prices and price growth rates across & even w/in over 100 metro areas. healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-originals…

HCCI study explores how 3 hypothetical policy proposals tying ESI prices to #Medicare rates could affect professional prices across the U.S. See the potential effects of rate cap, cap-and-floor, & benchmarking policies w/ interactive graphics: healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/…

New HCCI study finds that actual #Medicare payments to physicians in 2017 were ~$4B (6%) less than expected based off the publicly listed Fee Schedule price. This suggests the definition of #Medicare prices may have major policy ramifications. healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/…

Attn: employers worried about health care costs. If you use #Medicare prices as a benchmark in negotiating check out latest paper from HCCI (it could save you $$$)

Applications for access to HCCI’s new commercial claims database are now open! 🎉 #HCCI2dot0 #HCCIdata #healthdata Learn more and apply here: healthcostinstitute.org/data-access-hub

HCCI just launched a new commercial claims database for healthcare research. Here's why their work is so important: 🧵

In some bittersweet personal news, today is my last day at @healthcostinst. I am incredibly thankful to my amazing colleagues past and present for my wonderful three and a half years here. I can’t wait to see what HCCI does next with the 2.0 data (applications open!)!

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…

Death. Taxes. National broadcasts fundamentally misunderstanding the "Time Lord" nickname.

Happy to have this out in the world. A chapter of my dissertation was gathering dust in my dropbox... I found no effect of Citizens United on subsidy activity -- Alisa and Sarah had found the same for many other state tax outcomes! Together, we have a paper: