Academic Articles & Reports Roundup
Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: December 2016
Anna Zaret, Managing Editor January 4, 2017
Happy New Year everyone! As we wrapped up 2016, we saw several fascinating and comprehensive articles published on competition issues in health insurance and provider markets, including articles discussing (1) the relationship between insurer market participation and provider market power|(2) economic models of decreased insurance competition|(3) the Anthem-Cigna antitrust trial|and (4) the role of quality in hospital merger cases. We hope you enjoy! Insurer Market Participation &|Provider Market Power Daria Pelech’s article Dropped Out or Pushed Out? Insurance Market Exit and Provider Market Power in Medicare Advantage (Journal of …
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Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: November 2016
Anna Zaret, Managing Editor December 1, 2016
Happy December! We hope everyone got some rest and had a delicious feast over the Thanksgiving holiday. Our roundup of November academic articles and reports covers publications on the following issues: (1) the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Gobeille on All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs)|(2) pharmaceutical pricing|(3) price transparency tools’ impact on consumer choice of hospital|and (4) cross-market hospital mergers. APCDs In All-Payer Claims Databases – Uses and Expanded Prospects after Gobeille (New England Journal of Medicine), John D. Freedman, Linda Green, and Bruce E. Landon discuss how the …
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Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: October 2016
Anna Zaret, Managing Editor November 1, 2016
We hope you had a happy Halloween! October’s roundup includes articles covering 1) price transparency|2) provider collaborations in California|3) antitrust doctrine on state immunity|4) payment reforms|and 5) consumer healthcare costs. For the next few months, we will be using the Roundup to focus on a few great healthcare price and competition articles, rather than reporting on a wider array of articles that came out in the month. If you think we have overlooked any interesting articles, please feel free to send us what we’ve missed! Price Transparency In The New …
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Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: September 2016
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor October 1, 2016
September brought us (slightly) cooler days, the hustle and bustle of a new school year, and a lot of interesting new articles on healthcare cost and competition! This roundup includes articles on 1) Quality and Its Impact on Cost|2) Prescription Drug Costs|3) Competition and Markets|and 4) Hospital Pricing and Charges. Quality and Its Impact on Cost We all know that quality has a loose, and sometimes inverse, association with healthcare costs, but this month some articles really focused on the relationship between quality (improvement and measurement) and cost. JAMA published …
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Academic Articles & Reports: August 2016
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor September 1, 2016
This last round up of the summer features articles on a range of topics including (1) competition in healthcare markets|(2) strategies for reducing healthcare costs|(3) pharmaceutical pricing|(4) ACOs|(5) other ACA aspects and effects|(6) post-Gobeille strategies|and (7) antitrust enforcement. We hope everyone is settling into school and work after some time off. Happy (almost) fall! Competition in health care markets: In Choice and Competition in Public Service Provision, by Timothy J. Besley and James M. Malcomson, published by the Center for Economic Policy Research, looks broadly at markets involving services like …
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Academic Articles & Reports Roundup: July 2016
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor August 1, 2016
This month, we saw articles and reports that approached the health care cost conundrum from all angles: price transparency|how the ACA fits in|lowering costs, generally|healthcare markets and market places|and the consumer side of things. Add these to your summer reading list! Price Transparency We at The Source were delighted to have provided research on state legislation for HCI3 and Catalyst for Payment Reform’s Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws — July 2016. This was the fourth edition of the Report Card, first issued in 2013. The Report Card carefully …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: June 2016
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor July 1, 2016
June’s articles ran the gamut of the Source’s favorite topics: price transparency, new payment models, provider markets and pricing, state strategies, and reforming the entire U.S. healthcare system. PRICE TRANSPARENCY The Society of Medical Decision Making published an interesting study on how consumers respond to healthcare pricing information, Presenting Comparative Cost Information to Consumers: Easier Said Than Done by Jessica Greene, PhD and Rebecca M. Sacks, MPH. Participants in the study were provided online cost and quality information in various forms, and then asked to select a provider. Not surprisingly, …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: May 2016
Anne Marie Helm, Managing Editor June 1, 2016
Happy June! In May, healthcare scholars discussed the usual topics of healthcare price, transparency, and hospitals. And, since the third open enrollment period ended February through April 2016, journals and foundations published multiple reports and articles on state marketplaces. Enjoy! HEALTHCARE PRICE The Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics published an article that seeks to answer the question: Why is health care so expensive in the United States? In this op-ed, the author, a “medical physicist” presents his opinions on why healthcare is so expensive in the United States. He …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: April 2016
Elizabeth Nicholson, Research Fellow May 2, 2016
Happy May! April produced a number of articles and reports on interesting aspects of healthcare issues. As always, healthcare cost was at the forefront of the scene. Also discussed were pharmaceutical cost, the intersection of quality and cost, cost-sharing, the likelihood of a single-payer healthcare system in the United States, the effects of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, and the ins and outs of the new Medicare payment system. HEALTHCARE COST Health Affairs published an article entitled Study of Physician And Patient Communication Identifies Missed Opportunities To Help Reduce Patients’ Out-Of-Pocket …
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Academic Articles & Reports Round Up: March 2016
Elizabeth Nicholson, Research Fellow April 1, 2016
Happy Spring! A common theme among the healthcare articles and reports, published in March, was payment reimbursement systems (fee-for-service versus value-based systems) and Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”). In addition, typical healthcare topics were also reported on. These include healthcare cost|insurance cost|healthcare competition|and suggested improvements for the United States healthcare system. As a bonus, a few articles and reports focused on healthcare cost and competition issues in other countries. FEE-FOR-SERVICE REIMBURSEMENT MODEL Health Affairs posted an article entitled Fee-For-Service, While Much Maligned, Remains the Dominant Payment Method for Physician Visits. The article’s …
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