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Associations of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in Type 2 Diabetes With Health Care Use, Spending, and Disability
Is an intensive lifestyle intervention for type 2 diabetes associated with long-term health care use and Medicare spending?
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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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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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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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ADDITIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLES
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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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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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PNAS: Decoding the Mystery of American Pain Reveals a Warning for the Future
In America today, the elderly report less pain than those in midlife. This is the mystery of American pain.
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AJMC: Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums
Policies to address surprise billing could reduce health insurance premiums by 1% to 5%.
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Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: Early Perceptions of COVID-19 and Self-Reported Social Distancing in the United States
we study individual’s perceptions on COVID-19 and social distancing during the week of March 10–16, 2020, a week when COVID-19 was officially declared to be a pandemic by WHO and when new infections in the US were more than doubling every three days.
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Impacts on the U.S. Macroeconomy of Mandatory Business Closures in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
A mandatory business closure over three months results in a 20.3% decline of U.S. GDP on an annual basis, or $4.3 trillion, and an employment decline of 22.4%, representing 35.3 million workers.
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