We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for…
Medicare Part D does not allow plans to exclude drugs in six protected classes from their formularies, which may limit plans’ ability to…
Importance: Poverty is associated with greater barriers to health care and worse health outcomes, but it remains unclear whether income…
Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have…
There’s growing global interest in investing in disease prevention—not just to improve health but to cut health care costs. The idea seems…
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Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area’s share of adults…
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 is the most significant reform to US prescription drug pricing in two decades and the first…
The growth in spending on health care has slowed over the last decade, easing fears that Medicare would devour the federal budget, create…
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate lower prices for some medicines with high Medicare spending. Using…
Health insurance premiums are primarily understood to pose financial barriers to coverage. However, the need to remit monthly premium…