IOM Report: Variation in Health Care Spending
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was charged with answering two questions: How do health care spending, utilization, and quality vary across geographic regions? Should Medicare provider payments be...
View ArticleRegional Variation: Interpretation
The quality and efficiency of the care patients receive is often determined by the accident of where they live and seek care. - Dartmouth Atlas Brief Within-[region] variation in spending and...
View ArticleDartmouth Response to “Target Decision-makers, Not Geography” Report
The title of the Institute of Medicine’s recent report “Target Decision-makers, Not Geography” at first glance appears to be an indictment of the work of the Dartmouth Atlas, which largely claims that...
View ArticleProductivity Spillovers: The Case of AMI
The Healthcare Economist has written a lot about the fact that there exists significant regional variation in health care spending. Is this due to a provider cultural norms? Or are other factors at...
View ArticleRegional Variation in Medical Spending: A Texas Case Study
A large body of research (including my own) indicates that there exists significant regional variation in medical spending. What is the source of these differences: differences in the prices paid per...
View ArticleRegional Growth in Medicare Spending, 1992–2010
Below is an abstract from a paper I co-wrote with Camille Chicklis, Thomas MaCurdy, Jay Bhattacharya, and Dan Rodgers. The title of the paper is Regional Growth in Medicare Spending, 1992–2010....
View ArticleDartmouth, France?
The Dartmouth Atlas is well known for examining regional variation in practice patterns in the U.S. It looks like researchers in France are taking a similar approach to evaluate their own single payer...
View ArticleWhat is they key driver of cancer care spending?
High-cost cancer drugs often get bad press. Cancer treatment certainly is expensive. However, drug costs are not the primary driver of high cost of cancer treatment; hospitalizations are. Using data...
View ArticleASSA 2016: Regional variation in hospital spending among U.S. privately...
How do health care costs vary across the country. Although the team at the Dartmouth Atlas has done this exercise with patients in Medicare, there has been less study of region variation in health care...
View ArticleAvoiding unnecessary care: Does insurance coverage matter?
Consumer Reports‘ “Choosing Wisely” initiative aims to identify high-cost, low-value treatments that can often be avoided. One question remains is why do providers still offer these services? Do...
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