NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the … Medicare Benefits Schedule.Estimates based on patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the ….. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG-level data also indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during …Under the assumption that there were no pre-dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would … have been parallel trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major …