In the recent issue of Pediatrics, scientists published the results of an ten year follow-up study on a population of kids who received an HPV-9 vaccine during the original clinical trials. The primary outcome of interest was HPV related cancer diagnosis. The secondary outcome was the incidence of persistent HPV related outcomes. So what did they …
Anderson On Health Insurance
A decade of Juicing
A decade ago, Richard Mayhew started writing at Balloon Juice. A decade later, Dave Anderson is still writing for Balloon Juice. In that time I’ve written over 2400 health care and health insurance posts, another 600+ general purpose posts and engaged in 1.67 career changes while moving my family 400 miles to chase a dream. …
Market power and insurance leverage
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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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 …