David Auerbach
@DavidIAuerbachHealth Economist, dad, game player, hiker, cycler, and classical music enthusiast.
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If you see an observational study where the drug works immediately for a disease that takes years to develop, throw the study out. Like this study claiming Ozempic reduces risks of Alzheimer’s in diabetics within 30 days of initiation. Junk science alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…
Setting health care prices based on costs (CMS) mostly makes sense but what abt high cost treatments that add little value? These persist b/c pts don't pay full cost and can't judge value . Why pay more than lower-cost, higher value? Maybe price should be min(cost, value).
‘Unlimited dollars’: how an Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices | US news | The Guardian. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o…
Massachusetts admitted a higher percentage of ED patients for a full hospital stay than all other states analyzed. Massachusetts' rate of ED admission increased to 19.7% in 2020 from 17.0% in 2019, when it also had the highest rate.
The number of residents with employer-based insurance who reported they did not get needed health care due to cost increased by 50% (from 600,000 to 900,000) from 2021 to 2023. (1/3)
nytimes.com/2024/09/10/hea… "The additional operations on Black patients were more likely to happen when hospitals had no scheduled C-sections, meaning their operating rooms were sitting empty."
Explore the new Health Policy Commission DataPoints: Blockbuster GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs in Massachusetts. masshpc.gov/publications/d… 🧵
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…. $44 Billion last year to screen for 5 cancers. You'd think the evidence of benefit would be substantial. It's not. Worse, "roughly half of...women have at least 1 false alarm in a 10-year course of screening mammography, and about 10% undergo biopsy".
UnitedHealth members are 15x more likely to be diagnosed with diabetic cataracts than patients in traditional Medicare. Why? Medicare pays insurers up to $2700 more annually per diagnosed patient. So much of the healthcare business is just optimizing the billing system. via @wsj
@adamcifu kindly published my comment to the new but opposing recommendations on breast screening of women in their 40’s from @USPSTF and @cantaskforce. Progress in treatment deserve more praise for lower bc mortality in this group. sensible-med.com/p/should-women…
“It is time to look at the evidence, not the textbook, and regulate prices in health care markets where competition cannot do the job.” See: Hospitals, in almost all markets. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…
New in HSR: "Requiem for Odds Ratios" with Bryan Dowd, Melissa Garrido, and Matt Maciejewski. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14756773/0… We commend HSR for discouraging the reporting of odds ratios in most studies. We agree wholeheartedly with this decision, which keeps HSR at the forefront.
#Prediabetes “is turning legions of healthy people like me into patients by conflating risk with disease, lowering thresholds, and developing new “borderline” or “pre-disease” categories that target an unaffected population.” annfammed.org/content/22/3/2…
Now in @Health_Affairs led by @hannahojames we find that the use of health risk assessments increase spending in Medicare Advantage by over $12B a year in additional spending due to increased measured coding 1/ doi.org/10.1377/hlthaf… 1@BrownHSPP @BrownUniversity @Health_Affairs
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