Research
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Political Polarization in U.S. Residents’ COVID-19 Risk Perceptions, Policy Preferences, and Protective Behaviors
A new Schaeffer Center study examining the early months of the COVID-19 pandemics shows political inclinations predicted reported policy preferences, mask use, and social distancing, in analyses that accounted for differences in use of media sources, risk perceptions, and demographic background.
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Cognitive Assessment At Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit In Fee-For-Service And Medicare Advantage Plans
The study provides new insights – the self-reports of survey respondents – into cognitive assessments at annual wellness visits, an area that has been somewhat hidden from view.
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Variation in Generic Dispensing Rates in Medicare Part D
Generic use has increased over time in Medicare Part D, but substantial variation across plans persists in a number of common classes.
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Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The researchers examine changes in health care use during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April of 2020 relative to March and April of 2019 and 2018, and to examine whether changes in use differ by patient’s zip code–level race/ethnicity or income.
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Federal Policy Options to Realize the Potential of All Payer Claims Databases
An all-payer claims database (APCD) is a system that collects health care claims and related data from all (or nearly all) entities that pay for health care services in a geographic area, including private and public health plans.
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Predicting Quantity and Quality of Life with the Future Elderly Model
The FEM performs at least as well as actuarial forecasts of mortality, while providing policy simulation features that are not available in actuarial models.
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Assessment of Racial Disparities in Mortality Rates Among Older Adults Living in US Rural vs Urban Counties From 1968 to 2016
Even though racial disparities in mortality rates for older adults have narrowed, the gap between Black and White men in rural counties across the United States continues to widen.
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Ideas About Resourcing Health Care in the United States: Can Economic Evaluation Achieve Meaningful Use?
In a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, we suggest several ways that economic evaluation could become an effective component of value-based decision-making.
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New Evidence on the Compensation of Chief Executive Officers at Nonprofit U.S. Hospitals
CEOs at hospitals earn substantially less than CEOs of publicly traded companies though more than presidents of nonprofit institutions of higher education.
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NBER: A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of COVID-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model
We show that no country is immune to the economic fallout of the pandemic because of global interconnections as evidenced by the case of Sweden.
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