In a recent Medical Care Research and Review paper led by Wang, a team from John Hopkins looked at prices insurers paid at hospitals for shoppable and non-shoppable services. They examined market power and wondered if the insurers with the most enrollees got better rates. This is a reasonable question. For shoppable services, relative to nonmajor insurers, …
Different eligibility levels in a family for Medicaid
Medicaid is a collection of programs that serve different groups. Each group has different eligibility criteria. Some groups have asset limitations. Other groups allow for substantially higher income limits than others. Some groups get a full benefit package while other people are served by Medicaid acting as a supplemental insurance policy to pay cost-sharing for …
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Regular insurer entry and exit in the ACA
We’ve talked about unanticipated insurer exit in the ACA a lot this summer. Friday Health Plan is ceasing operations by the end of the week. Their obligations will be taken over by a number of state guarantee funds and the people who enrolled in that company will either need to pick another insurer through some …
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Idalia heading to Florida
The National Weather Service just issued it’s first advisory on Tropical Depression 10 Current projections have Hurricane Idalia forming and hitting somewhere on the eastern Gulf Coast by the middle of the week. Intensity forecasts are highly variable. If you live in the early strike area, start your easy and reversible prep steps. Open thread
Damn that might be a mega window
Rumors are hitting social media that a small business jet that crashed/shot down in Russia had coup and Wagner leader Prigozhin aboard. Baza says an Embraer ERG 135 aircraft that belongs to Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed today in Tver, possibly after being shot down by air defenses. Rosaviatsiya says Prigozhin was listed among the passengers. https://t.co/3PJwIk3fzGhttps://t.co/EHZFVHnYuThttps://t.co/Tn0aFlJNcQ …
Silverloading, Broad loading and looking at ratios
Two of my dissertation aims are “Silverloading” aims. Aim A will look at a state policy on how that state Silverloads and how that changes enrollment at various income levels. Aim B will look at the same state and check out the policy’s impact on market functionality. One of the challenges I have this week …
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Solidarity and Dissertation phase
Good news everybody! The Union was approved for Duke Grad Students. I voted yes along with 88% of my colleagues. Personal life updates now as a grad student. I completed my comprehensive exams and my required class work last May. I’m filing the forms to establish my dissertation committee this week. I’ve gotten conceptual buy-in …