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prices are much higher in the US. This fact has led policymakers to consider legislation for price controls. This paper … smaller price decreases in the US than price increases in reference countries. The magnitude of these effects depends on the …
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price signals for downstream providers, which can also be discordant across production inputs. We examine such a context …. Government price setting for healthcare facilities spills over onto physicians--impacting their technology utilization and time …
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Although debates over immigration remain contentious, one important sector served heavily by immigrants faces a critical labor shortage: nursing homes. We merge a variety of data sets on immigration and nursing homes and use a shift-share instrumental variables analysis to assess the impact of...
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Professions play a key role in determining the division of labor and the returns to skilled work. This paper studies the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background,...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index (CPI-Rx) has been the focus of considerable … drug price inflation. Using data from the IBM MarketScan database for the years 2010-2019 and IQVIA-designated specialty ….S. prescription drug price inflation by just under 75 basis points annually. We discuss implications for health care policy, and …
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performance is the price per dose, while the increased probability of success due to mRNA technology, adjusting the size of the …
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Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private operators may improve hospitals' financial...
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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 adjacent industries, with AI-driven tools already in use...
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Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively...
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There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In this paper, we inform this debate by examining the effects of DTCA on office visits, as well as treatment courses resulting from those visits, for five common chronic conditions...
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