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You cannot have: a) Low healthcare costs b) No consumer cost sharing c) Doctors do everything they think benefits patients d) No insurer oversight

Thrilled to announce the call for the 5th edition of our joint workshop with NBER on Aging and Health, organized with John Skinner, Kosali Simon, and Kathleen McGarry. #EconTwitter

📊 How effective are “soft” spending limits like Medicare’s therapy cap? Join Maggie Shi from Harris Policy on Jan 14 to discuss Medicare’s therapy cap’s impact on spending, targeting, and disparities. Register here: ldi.upenn.edu/events/researc…

Raising hospital payment rates led them to admit more patients while shortening lengths of stay. In the November issue, by Tal Gross (Tal Gross), Adam Sacarny (Adam Sacarny), David Silver, Maggie Shi (Maggie Shi) zurl.co/Occio

Call for Submissions! Vanderbilt University is hosting the Annual Health Economics Conference this year on March 27-28. Submissions are due January 10. Submission link: dropbox.com/request/cc3hyL… Call for papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFq1ap…

Payment incentives alleviate worker shortages at nursing homes. Just Accepted new paper by Ashvin D. Gandhi (Ashvin Gandhi), Andrew Olenski (Andrew Olenski), Krista Ruffini (Krista Ruffini), and Karen Shen zurl.co/H2Uo3

I’m excited to co-organize this NBER conference with Jim Poterba on issues related to the performance and fiscal dynamics of state and local governments. Please help to circulate widely and submit your papers!

Many industries where the government is a major regulator, purchaser, or supplier suffer from severe worker shortages (e.g., healthcare, transportation, education, public safety). A quick thread on our new The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) showing how government payment incentives can help: 1/N

Striking new RCT from Marcella Alsan & Crystal Yang showing that requiring accredited healthcare providers reduces recidivism and mortality in US jails.

Recessions restrain investments into information technology while expansion policy indirectly stimulates them, from Michael R. Richards, Maggie Shi, and Christopher Whaley nber.org/papers/w33487

Recessions slow IT investments, while expansion policies boost them. In healthcare, downturns limit hospital IT spending, but Medicaid expansion leads to increased investment. Brief by Michael Richards, Maggie Shi (Harris Policy), & Christopher Whaley. ow.ly/N7WG50VHCOz

Medicare spends over $1T per year, so even small cuts to wasteful spending represent huge savings. Maggie Shi and I have a new NBER on a policy targeting *just medically unnecessary physical therapy* and it would have easily have made the Department of Government Efficiency leaderboard. Quick🧵

Placing a "soft" spending limit on physical therapy reduces unnecessary care, but also introduces inequities based on how well providers can navigate paperwork requirements, from Ashvin Gandhi and Maggie Shi nber.org/papers/w33722

It's great to finally see this out in the world as a no-longer-working paper — this was the first project I started working on as a PhD student, helping put together the grant application in *checks notes* 2017

I denounce this xenophobic, self-destructive plan. Chinese students are integral to American science. The opportunity to work with students from China remains one of the joys and most important dimensions of my research. The act of a deteriorating nation.

Every $1 Medicare spends on monitoring saves $24–29 by deterring unnecessary care. Smart oversight = massive savings + better tech to assess what care is truly needed. Research from Harris Policy's Maggie Shi ow.ly/OVt750W1670 #HealthPolicy #Medicare

The idea that the cost of healthcare could easily be reduced by cutting unnecessary admin is too good to be true: nber.org/papers/w33863

Examining the impact of reducing the administrative fragmentation of billing and payment by studying a Medicare reform that consolidated billing processes across service types, from Riley League and Maggie Shi nber.org/papers/w33863

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A Medicare reform cut billing fragmentation as planned, but it brought only modest gains in administrative efficiency and no clear impact on patient outcomes or hospital costs. Research by Riley League and Maggie Shi (Harris Policy). ow.ly/KXe450Wn7L2