Topic: Health Care
Rising Rents Force Families to Curtail Spending on Food and Health Care
Cost burdens affect half of U.S. households that rent, as housing shortage worsens
Behavioral Economics Could Increase Obamacare Enrollment and Stabilize Markets
Greater subsidies aren’t enough: Lowering the complexity of enrollment is needed to bring more and healthier people into the market
How Publicly Funded Research Leads to Cancer Drug Trials
Pharmaceutical companies are better able to identify promising new applications for existing drugs
Orphan Drugs: An Expert Pricing Panel Could Bring Benefits
The goal is continued development of new drugs and reduction of often shocking prices
Machine Learning Can Help Reduce Post-Surgical Hospital Readmissions
A model outperformed simpler statistical approaches in predicting which patients would encounter trouble
Carefully Crafted Messaging Boosts Uptake in Cancer Screening
Embedding psychological nudges in mail reminding people to get tested improves compliance
Medicare Could Save by Subsidizing Providers’ Capital Spending
Projects that make health care delivery more efficient require upfront financial help
Kidney Transplant Outcomes Suffer at Clinics That Add Liver Transplants
Younger-patient mortality rate nearly triples, 20 years of data indicate
Do Surgeons Win or Lose When Medicare Bundles Payments?
A model separates potential profits or losses for hospital, doctors and other health care providers when insurer pays in lump sum
How Nursing Homes Selectively Admit Patients for Optimal Profits
When beds are limited, turning away the sickest and poorest boosts margins
Employees Work at Multiple Nursing Homes and Spread COVID-19
Smartphone GPS tracks staffers between facilities
Medicare Ratings Didn’t Predict Nursing Homes’ Initial COVID-19 Vulnerability
Rate of spread in the surrounding community was a bigger indicator of risk
Private Equity Boosts Nursing Home Staffing — When Compelled by Competition
But in uncompetitive markets, the financial owners cut staff
A Proposal to Even Out Flu Vaccine Supplies
A system of manufacturer rewards and penalties, consumer taxes and subsidies could aid vaccination rates
Comprehensive COVID-19 Screening Would Pay for Itself Many Times Over
Reliable, widespread testing regimen could help jump-start economy
Academic Medical Centers Resilient After Cuts
Following Medicare reimbursement rate changes, research actually increased