The Medicare Advantage (MA) program continues to grow and thrive, despite plan payment cuts imposed through the Affordable Care Act. What…
We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and trace assets backwards…
Most Medicare patients seeking emergency medical transport are treated by ambulance providers trained in advanced life support (ALS).…
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Measuring consumer responsiveness to medical care prices is a central issue in
health economics and a key ingredient in the optimal design…
The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of
the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to…
A combination of legal rules and institutional forces pushes health plans to cover nearly every medical innovation. The result is that many…
Two of the best known randomized trials in health economics are described in detail in this chapter, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment…
Prior analyses of Medicare health plans have examined either utilization of services or quality of care, but not both jointly. Our…