"Leapfrog Group’s legal defeat underscores challenges of rating hospital quality" www.statnews.com/2026/03/13/l... via @statnews.com #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
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"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
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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
Read more 🔽
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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
#healthecon #AMR
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
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"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
#CMS has postponed the #VRDC requirement indefinitely. This is big for the CMS and #NIH data use agreement. #rstats #statsky #hpss #srms #hspr #healthecon #hpsr #healthpolicy #geronsky #federalstatistics
🚨 Last chance: join our @lshtm.bsky.social discussion on recent changes to the NICE threshold
We'll consider its wider impact in #healthecon, #NHS & UK and international #PublicHealth
📆 Wed 11 February from 10:00
🏛️ LSHTM | Online
Register before it's too late 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
🚨 Last chance: join our @lshtm.bsky.social discussion on recent changes to the NICE threshold
We'll consider its wider impact in #healthecon, #NHS & UK and international #PublicHealth
📆 Wed 11 February from 10:00
🏛️ LSHTM | Online
Register before it's too late 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
🏥 Join us next week with stakeholders from govt, business & academia for our @lshtm.bsky.social #healthecon symposium
We'll look at changes to NICE threshold and its wider impact on the #NHS and UK healthcare
📆 Wed 11 February from 10:00
🏛️ LSHTM | Online
Details 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
"The cost of health care, not food or rent, is now Americans’ top worry," via @washingtonpost.com buff.ly/jDZwwxJ #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
Jersey City's new mayor is about to save the city $30 million while cutting #healthinsurance costs for about 5,000 city employees and retirees by roughly 8%. That's $30 million to spend on schools, transportation, and other priorities buff.ly/UVi5F7M #healthpolicy #healthecon #NewJersey #healthcare
In December, Colorado was granted authority to monitor whether carriers are meeting state and federal TiC data rules, and issue penalties, fines, and other enforcement actions on carriers who are not compliant buff.ly/D1Jjxuj #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, AJMC spoke with David Muhlestein about his recent articles highlighting the completeness of Transparency in Coverage (TIC) files and ghost rates in TiC files buff.ly/J0W55Od #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
Grad students: get a head start on summer by applying for our virtual CEA Registry fellowship. Learn more and apply today: cevr.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/news/2026-re...
#internships #fellowship #research #healthecon
@pattysynnott.bsky.social
Farzana Afridi (ISI, Delhi), Jesús Buren (Católica Lisbon), Meghan Esson (University of Iowa), Amanda Gaulke (Kansas State U), Martin Salm (Tilburg U), Jenny Williams (U Melbourn), Alison Cuellar (GMU), Jesse Matheson (University of Sheffield), Therese Nilsson (Lund U)
#econ #healthecon