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The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payment Program is designed to support hospitals that serve low-income patients. But how well is it doing that? William Schpero Soham Sinha Olivia Reszczynski Anita Amin, MD & I take a look in Health Affairs. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

Interested in risk adjustment and health equity in population-based payment models (ie MA or ACOs)? You may find this paper useful w/ Chima Ndumele @jwswallace Gabe Weinreb & Lin Ding in Health Affairs: bit.ly/3ICdfUz 1/(this could run long)

In their new paper, Amelia Bond from Cornell University and coauthors analyze the administration of two high-volume biologics versus that of their biosimilar competitors. They estimate that 340B program eligibility is associated with a 66% reduction in biosimilar use relative to the mean.

NEW #AHealthPodyssey episode: Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief @alanrweil interviews Amelia Bond of Weill Cornell Medicine on her paper exploring whether participation in the 340B drug program influences biosimilar uptake. Listen now: bit.ly/42aUduY

LISTEN: I joined Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief @alanrweil on #AHealthPodyssey to discuss a paper I recently published that explores whether participation in the 340B drug program influences biosimilar uptake. Be sure to subscribe! feeds.transistor.fm/a-health-podys…

A new analysis of #Medicare data from Amy Bond, Dr. Lawrence Casalino Weill Cornell Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine Population Health Sciences and Ming Tai-Seale UC San Diego found that the early #COVID19 pandemic was not associated with significant physician turnover: ow.ly/eFeE50P8AoQ.

Rebecca Gourevitch from UMD Public Health + coauthors analyzed registered nurse home visits and prenatal care among #Medicaid enrollees in South Carolina, finding that home visits with a registered nurse did not affect #pregnancy health or care. bit.ly/3YEzBuq

Important news from CMS: Increasing transparency on nursing homes ownership. Shining a light on who owns NHs, how they do business, and how this affects residents is long overdue. Transparency is the cornerstone of ensuring high-quality NH care. cms.gov/newsroom/press…

NYC area health economists, please mark May 3 for Health Economics Day NYU Stern and if you'd like to present, submit your paper here by 3/15/24: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… cc: Amy Bond Sunita Desai Michael Dickstein Adam Sacarny

Today, on behalf of over 375 academic researchers spanning over 75 institutions across the United States, Sujith Ramachandran and I submitted  this letter to CMS in response to their new proposed policy of restricting  access to physical CMS data. tinyurl.com/yuxmpap4

"New CMS rules will throttle access researchers need to Medicare, Medicaid data" Excellent piece from Rachel Werner now out in STAT statnews.com/2024/02/20/cms…

Limiting access to CMS data is not just an academic concern. It will affect anyone enrolled in Medicare/Medicaid as well as the taxpayers who fund these programs. Read more in my STAT piece below and please retweet to spread the word. We have work to do!

Hospitals acquiring physician practices has become a dominant trend in American medicine, transforming the delivery of care. In NEJM, we examine the causes and implications, and propose 3 key questions to inform if and when regulators should intervene: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Enjoyed this conversation with Stephen Morrissey NEJM on how vertical integration is changing US health care—what we know and, importantly, what we need to know: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nej…

🚨 The deadline to submit your paper to NYC Health Econ Day is tomorrow! Submission page: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… The conference will be held May 3 NYU Stern. More info: stern.nyu.edu/experience-ste… Organizers: Amy Bond Sunita Desai Michael Dickstein Laura Wherry + me

Adam undersold this! We have FIVE great paper presentations 🤩 - please come join us for the NYC Health Econ Day NYU Stern on Friday, May 3!!!

We have a few spots left! Please RSVP ASAP if you want to join us for NYC Health Econ Day - can't wait to see you there!

Important work from MedPAC finds huge completeness issues with MA encounter data. Researchers are increasingly using these data and often take the quality as given but there are big challenges that can bias results if not considered carefully! medpac.gov/wp-content/upl…