Health economics and policy (+ books, cooking, and music)
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Happy HCCUR day to all who celebrate (i.e., health care data and policy nerds ;-))! Congrats to the @HealthCostInst team!
⚡️New Report: HCCI’s 2022 annual report examines health care spending, use, and prices from 2018-2022 among the ESI population. In 2022, per-person spending among people with ESI averaged more than $6,700. healthcostinstitute.org/heal…
Great to have new work on prices in self-insured plans out in @Health_Affairs. Using @HealthCostInst data, we find that employers aren't negotiating lower prices for employees in self-insured plans despite incentives to do so. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/1…
Thanks to my @HealthCostInst colleagues for their collaboration on this topic I've been interested in for a while. And thanks to @Health_Affairs reviewers and editors for suggestions that improved the paper and for featuring the paper today!
Also out today: related podcast! Thanks @alanrweil for the conversation (and great podcast title!). healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377…
Aditi Sen retweeted
📢 Exciting research update! Our latest study reveals a fascinating trend among #Ozempic users. Over time, we have observed a decrease in the percentage of users diagnosed with #diabetes, hinting at a rise in off-label utilization.
healthcostinstitute.org/diab…
To inform growing policy interest in facility fees, our team @HealthCostInst released a new "explainer" and (national and state) data on facility fees for common services this week.
More here: healthcostinstitute.org/all-…
We're hiring a Senior Researcher @HealthCostInst! Join us to bring the best data to inform policy on health care prices, maternal health, and many other topics. My biggest problem at HCCI: Not enough time for all the timely, policy research we want to do! bit.ly/3W6KALW
$24,000 on average in total spending per birth for prenatal through 12 months postpartum care - new work this Mother’s Day from our team @HealthCostInst.
This Mother’s Day, HCCI highlights average total spending per birth among people with employer-sponsored health insurance: more than $24,000 with 14% paid out-of-pocket from prenatal care through 12 months postpartum.
More here: bit.ly/3pzkoO2
Thanks so much, @GilliganChris, for highlighting @HealthCostInst work on the costs of giving birth in the U.S.
Just in time for Mother’s Day! High and highly variable prices for childbirth impact so many families.
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As always, @Mass_HPC leading the way in thoughtful, careful analysis of health care prices to inform policy. Great to see this work on measuring outpatient prices!
📣If you're interested in health care cost trends, state health policy, and commercial price variation, check out our new research letter out in @JAMAHealthForum from @Mass_HPC:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Disentangling prices from service mix, weighting claims data, wrangling billions of claims lines, and other nitty-gritty methods that go into @HealthCostInst Health Care Cost and Utilization Report...learn more TODAY!
TODAY! Join us to learn more about the methods we use to track health care spending, use, and prices in our annual Health Care Cost and Utilization report (bit.ly/HCCUR2021). Registration link below.
Join us on Wednesday for a closer look at health care spending among those with employer-sponsored insurance:
Interested in health care spending trends from 2017-2021 including pandemic effects on use and prices? Join us on Wednesday to hear an overview of our 2021 Health Care Cost Utilization Report (bit.ly/HCCUR2021).
4/26, 1-2 pm EST. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Join us next week to learn more about our 2021 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report! @HealthCostInst
This week, we released our 2021 Health Care Cost and Utilization report showing spending, use, and prices from 2017-2021: bit.ly/HCCUR2021. Join us on 4/26 to hear an overview of the findings and on 4/28 to learn more about HCCUR methods. Registration links below!
Our @HealthCostInst 2021 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report shows a rebound in health care use and spending after a drop in 2020 in the early stages of COVID-19.
And health care prices kept on rising... bit.ly/HCCUR2021
After the initial shock of COVID-19 to the health care system in 2020, spending and use of services rebounded in 2021 as prices continued to rise. #HCCIdata #HCCUR2021
bit.ly/HCCUR2021
New work on 10 years of insulin prices in employer-sponsored insurance from our team @HealthCostInst. Take a look!
Across all insulin types, the price of a 30-day supply of insulin increased from $271 in 2012 to $499 in 2021, a 184% increase. New Brief here:
healthcostinstitute.org/all-…
Tomorrow! Join us to learn more about using @HealthCostInst data for your research.
10 years of data on health care prices and use for one-third of the population with health insurance through work. We use it to study insulin costs, maternal health, facility fees, and more.
HCCI data now includes 2021 claims! That's 10 years of data!!
Join us on Friday March 3rd for a webinar to learn how to use HCCI data for your research. Sign-up today: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Join us to learn more about HCCI's data and how to use it in your health policy/health econ/health services (and other!) research!
HCCI data now includes 2021 claims! That's 10 years of data!!
Join us on Friday March 3rd for a webinar to learn how to use HCCI data for your research. Sign-up today: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Excited to have this study on ESI prices for admin drugs out. Many thanks to Editors and Reviewers @JAMAHealthForum and colleagues @HealthCostInst. Stay tuned for more on admin drug prices and policy this year!
New HCCI study out @JAMAHealthForum found that ESI plans paid over 300% Medicare price for common low cost admin drugs like Dexamethasone and saline. We also found high markups for $$$ admin drugs like Neulasta and Remicade jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Aditi Sen retweeted
We'll be listening for this during the #SOTU tonight - our analysis showed that over 50% of people with employer-sponsored insurance who use insulin spent over $35 per month and would benefit from a cap: bit.ly/3I5thWc
President Biden's State of the Union address will include calls for insulin cost caps for privately insured patients and a renewed bid to close the Medicaid coverage gap in Republican-controlled states that haven't accepted the ACA's Medicaid expansion. trib.al/GYFrrg6
Really excited about this new tool we’ve been working on @HealthCostInst. Track rates of cancer screening, childbirth, telehealth, and other services across the US, across demographics, and across payers - ESI, Medicare, MA, and Medicaid.
⚡️Now available! An interactive #healthcare data tool: #HealthCareVitals. A one-stop-shop for #Medicare FFS, MA, #Medicaid, and ESI health care service data! Explore use rates of dozens of health services by state, age, & other demographics. vitals.healthcostinstitute.o…