The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles … built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we … find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively select a health plan to enroll - reduces take-up by 33%, a major …

(PBMs) and health insurers in recent years. Using a unique dataset on insurer-PBM contracts, we document increasing vertical … due to input and customer foreclosure on the one hand and improved efficiency on the other. We find premium increases …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …

Percutaneous coronary intervention facility openings may have differential effects on treatment and health outcomes for … patient treatment and health outcomes (same-day PCI, PCI during hospitalization, 30-day mortality, and 1-year mortality) after …