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The Impact of Increased Utilization of HIV Drugs on Longevity and Medical Expenditures : An Assessment Based on Aggregate U.S. Time-Series Data

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2006

Estimates of mortality models imply that actual life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients in 2001 was 13.4 years higher than … increased drug utilization on the life expectancy and drug and hospital expenditure of HIV/AIDS patients, using aggregate (U … prescriptions, the CDC's AIDS Public Information Data Set, and data from AHRQ's Nationwide Inpatient Sample …

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The sources of cost difference in health insurance plans : a decomposition analysis

Eichner, Matthew (contributor); … - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

Dafny, Leemore S.; Ho, Katherine; Kong, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by commercially-insured enrollees. We estimate...

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Estimating the Financial Impact of Gene Therapy in the U.S.

Wong, Chi Heem; Li, Dexin; Wang, Nina; Gruber, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We empirically assess the potential financial impact of future gene therapies on the US economy. After identifying 109 late-stage gene therapy clinical trials currently underway, we estimate the number of new and existing patients with corresponding diseases to be treated by these gene...

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Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending?

Currie, Janet M.; Karpova, Anastasia; Zeltzer, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the impact of the opening of a new urgent care center (UCC) on health care costs and the utilization of care among nearby Medicare beneficiaries. We focus on 2006-2016, a period of rapid UCC expansion. We find that total Medicare spending rises when residents of a zip code are first...

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Smoking, Selection, and Medical Care Expenditures

Darden, Michael; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current understanding of the effect of smoking on annual medical expenditures is limited to studies that use cross-sectional data to make comparisons of medical care expenditures between smokers...

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The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization : Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid

Cabral, Marika; Carey, Colleen; Miller, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Provider payments are the key determinant of insurance generosity within many health insurance programs covering low-income populations. This paper analyzes the effects of a large, federally-mandated provider payment increase for primary care services provided to low-income elderly and disabled...

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The Responsiveness of Medicaid Spending to the Federal Subsidy

Bundorf, M. Kate; Kessler, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Although economic theory suggests that the federal government can influence spending by states through subsidies to programs that states operate, no recent work has quantified the magnitude of this effect for Medicaid, the largest program of this type in the U.S. We find that Medicaid spending...

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Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits

Shepard, Mark - 2019

There is increasing interest in expanding Medicare health insurance coverage in the U.S., but it is not clear whether the current program is the right foundation on which to build. Traditional Medicare covers a uniformset of benefits for all income groups and provides more generous access to...

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The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing

Chandra, Amitabh; Flack, Evan; Obermeyer, Ziad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the design of Medicare's prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health consequences of cost-sharing. First, we show that an as-if-random increase of 33.6% in out-of-pocket price (11.0 percentage points (p.p.) change in coinsurance, or $10.40 per drug)...

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