The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

estimate the effect of the reversal of such a medical study on physician choices and infant health outcomes. Using the United … disadvantaged groups. However, we do not find that such a change in practice had significant impacts on infant health. Contrary to …

Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach patients often depends on …

I demonstrate that to achieve dynamic efficiency, the optimal share of total surplus that a social payer should … insurance - for surplus appropriation by the innovating industry. I also explore how alternative financing mechanisms used by …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers … would be replaced by pre-treatment insurance premia to health ministries. Second, increased patient choice and carefully …

Specialty hospitals tend to negotiate higher commercial insurance payments, even for relatively routine procedures with …

For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a … compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its … health care delivery, including administrative work, diagnosis, and treatment. In diagnosis and treatment, a large and …

empirical evidence by using novel operations and claims data from a large, independent home health care firm with the Hospital … patients to the firm. This evidence suggests that HRRP helped increase coordination between hospitals and home health firms … without formal integration. Greater home health effort does not appear to have led to lower patient readmissions …

We examine how health insurance expansions affect the entry and location decisions of health care clinics. Exploiting …, 1963), our results demonstrate that whether health insurance expansions cause the supply side to expand or contract further … county-level changes in insurance coverage following the Affordable Care Act and 1,721 retail clinic entries and exits, we …