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More evidence that there are diminishing marginal retur...

A paper by Johnson et al. (2024) conduct a discrete-choice experiment (DCE) in o...

Quotation of the Day

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done a...

What is Project IDEATE?

How best can you design an outcomes based agreement (OBA)? What are the key fact...

Can the NIH replace all private sector clinical R&D?

A paper by Proudman et al. (2024) finds that doing so would be extremely expensi...

Vaccine choice = more measles infection

Texas is moving to allow for more freedom of choice with respect to receipt of v...

Healthcare Economist named a top 100 Economics blog

In Feedspot’s 2025 ranking of economics blogs, Healthcare Economist was once aga...

LLM in HEOR: An evaluation framework

Health economics and outcomes research has already started to use AI tools such ...

Why don’t more people take up public services for which...

One reason are the administrative obstacles and frictions that eligible individu...

Comparing Regulatory and Health Technology Assessment R...

That is the subtitle of a paper by Vreman et al. (2020). The authors look at all...

Public vs. Private Sector R&D Investments

In 2011, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded discoveries contributed $69 ...

How long until widespread AI use comes to health systems?

The answer to this question depends, not only on how well AI tools work, but als...

Will the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation increase innov...

Chuanzi Yue and Marisa Miraldo argue in a recent Health Affairs Forefront piece ...

Which states have the most and least progressive tax sy...

That is the questions an NBER working paper by Fleck, Heathcote, Storesletten, a...

Quantifying the Altruism Value for a Rare Pediatric Dis...

That is the title of a paper recently published in AJMC with co-authors Suhail T...

Improving the External Validity of Conjoint Analysis

What is the impact of changing one treatment attribute on patient preferences fo...

How will CMS administer the IRA Medicare Drug Price Neg...

Some hints–and only hints–were provided in a CMS press release on Wednesday. Low...

The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe

That is the title of a paper from Costa-Font and Vilaplana-Prieto (2025). They f...

What will be DOGE’s impact on CMS?

In a statement today, CMS confirmed that Elon Musk and the Department of Governm...

A Primer on Health Equity Research

According to the World Health Organization, “Three distinguishing features, when...

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