Glad to work with Raymond Tsai on this overview of how transparent #healthcare price data can empower employers to compare prices across insurance carriers www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
"The Trump administration could also build on the PBM reforms and proposed DOL rules by exploring whether similar transparency standards should apply to TPAs and claims administrators."
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Raymond Tsai & I have a new article in Population Health, Equity & Outcomes about how transparent #healthcare price data helps employers compare actual negotiated rates, not just discounts, driving smarter purchasing www.ajmc.com/view/employe... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
For the first time, payers must publicly post data on how often they deny prior authorization requests, how quickly they process them, and how often denials are overturned on appeal. The first reports are due March 31. buff.ly/Gha941S #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
Hospitals feel the heat over anticompetitive contracting www.axios.com/2026/03/31/h... via @axios.com #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon
"Hospitals accounted for 32% of U.S. health care cost growth between 2005 and 2024, and 61% of the cost growth was attributable to increased prices, rather than to an increase in the amount of care provided"
buff.ly/jfofQAR #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
"The states pushing hospital price caps despite opposition" buff.ly/RQ0TCgH #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
Hospitals' anticompetitive contracting policies increase #healthcare costs. DOJ has filed antitrust suits against New York-Presbyterian and OhioHealth, and may file in other states where large hospita systems have significant market power bit.ly/3NBQxkt #healthecon #healthpolicy
The US DOJ is suing New York-Presbyterian Hospital "for anticompetitive contracts that increase healthcare costs for New Yorkers" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi... #healthcare #hospitals #healthpolicy #healthecon
KT Canada newsletter for March 12, 2026:
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#ImpSci #HealthEcon #EvidenceSynthesis
"Leapfrog Group’s legal defeat underscores challenges of rating hospital quality" www.statnews.com/2026/03/13/l... via @statnews.com #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
The Peterson Center on Healthcare is supporting the launch of the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale buff.ly/YCX3NiV #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon @yalehealthlab.bsky.social
"One-Third of Americans Cut Back to Cover Healthcare Expenses:
Cost of healthcare also causing many to delay pursuing milestones and life-enhancing goals," buff.ly/adneysT #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
"A federal judge has ruled against the Leapfrog Group in a suit brought by Tenet Healthcare subsidiary hospitals that said they were punished for not voluntarily submitting data to the hospital safety grading nonprofit." buff.ly/buq7L4c #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
🗞️ Read what Francis had to say about UK government ministers being officially given the power to change NICE's cost effectiveness threshold
This was confirmed after a public consultation for the #healthecon community raised concerns about the move & its threat to NICE's independence
Link 🔽
A new white paper from Simple Healthcare provides recommendations for improving the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data that commercial health plans are required to release buff.ly/bn2ysET #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
🏥 Do doctors treat poorer patients differently? #healthecon
Our former PhD student Dr Rym Ghouma, and current co-Director Tim Powell-Jackson, discuss Rym’s PhD research which tackles this #PublicHealth question
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Authors note that by limiting cohort to community-onset only the values may be underestimates of true SAB economic burden.
Lack of difference b/w MRSA and MSSA impart importance of #IPC for all bacteraemia rather than focusing efforts just on #AMS.
#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi
Ten patients had MRSA. Median LoS was 11 days, with mean costs of A$56 984.
Whilst 46 patients had MSSA. Median LoS was 8 days, with mean costs of A$52 180.
No statistical significance in difference of costs between MRSA and MSSA
#healthecon #AMR #IDEpi
Primary outcome was mean and total cost per SAB hospitalisation, secondary outcomes were national SAB cost burden. All $ amounts are in AUD.
Distribution was +ve skewed: 60% of cohort total cost was ≤A$40 000. Mean $ per hospitalisation per patient was A$53 037. Median LoS: 9 days
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Costs included in the analysis include direct costs of diagnosis & management + indirect costs of hospital operation such as utilities, teaching, maintenance, and depreciation. Costs followed the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) specifications for cost centres & line items #healthecon
KT Canada newsletter for Feb. 25, 2026:
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#ImpSci #HealthEquity #HealthEcon
@sporalliance.bsky.social @andreatricco.bsky.social
"The No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution system is expensive, slow and usually favors the health care providers." buff.ly/T94GYvQ #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
I’m looking forward to the conversation about price transparency and fiduciary responsibilities at today’s SIIA conference buff.ly/p5z6Rnc #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy
Patients are suing insurers over 'ghost networks.' buff.ly/IlHzaeM. Research by
@publicagenda.bsky.social explores how challenges finding in-network #healthcare providers affect people's mental health, relationships, work, physical health, and finances buff.ly/B54i3ek #healthpolicy #healthecon
"Cancer treatment costs declined as much as 8.2% in cities where most hospitals published complete pricing data for oncology services." www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy
Departments of HHS, Labor, and Treasury extended the public comment period for the Transparency in Coverage (TiC) proposed rule to March 2, 2026. The rule can be accessed here: buff.ly/tsApCwF. The notice can be accessed here: buff.ly/vaHUgMh #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
"Report shows weak hospital and health plan price transparency across 10 US markets"
buff.ly/ljP6SJU #healthcare #healthecon #healthpolicy
I'm looking forward to this conversation about health plan sponsors' and vendors' fiduciary duties at the Self-Insurance Institute of America's price transparency forum on Feb 26 www.siia.org/i4a/pages/in... #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
