Thursday, September 21, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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ICYMI: Aditi Sen joined A Health Podyssey to discuss her recent paper that suggests that employers lack leverage to negotiate lower health care prices.
Jung and coauthors find that MA generally had lower total
resource use, but by varying amounts across conditions, and that "this variation was explained by resource use for hospital inpatient services in MA relative to traditional Medicare."
MA enrollment was associated with increased resource use for imaging and testing, which account for a large share of low-value care.
Jung and coauthors conclude that MA has less resource use than traditional Medicare for those conditions where hospitalization can be avoided, but insignificant differences in resource use from traditional Medicare for conditions where hospitalization can be difficult to avoid, such as acute myocardial infarction and cancer.
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On the third episode, Chaguturu and Khaldun interview Mary-Ann Etiebet of Merck about how to address disparities in maternal health outcomes and the contributions of the Merck for Mothers initiative.
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