Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending …

We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …

New medical technologies hold tremendous promise for improving population health, but they also raise concerns about … exacerbating already large differences in health by socioeconomic status (SES). If effective treatments are more rapidly adopted by … the better educated, SES health disparities may initially expand even though the health of those in all groups eventually …

There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health …, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated …

health care can respond to changes in financial and other incentives associated with managed care, which may have … implications for health care costs and patient welfare …

Increased health care spending has been argued to be largely due to technological change. Cost-effectiveness analysis …

Given the rapid growth in health care spending that is often attributed to technological change, many private and … public institutions are grappling with how to best assess and adopt new health care technologies. The leading technology …

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing …. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able …

Many questions about technology growth and development in health care call for a broad-based characterization of …