William Johnson
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@WJohnsonomics
Husband, Health Economist, Home Made Pizza Enthusiast. Tweets, views expressed are my own.
Does a common blood test cost $10 or $1,000? Yes. nytimes.com/2019/04/30/ups…
Analysis using Citizens United for identification finds no economically or statistically significant effects of independent corporate political contributions on US state tax policy, from @cailin_slattery, Alisa Tazhitdinova, and Sarah Robinson nber.org/papers/w30352
Lots of talk about ⬇️health spending by benchmarking to Medicare prices. But what does that even mean? Did you know that in 2017 actual Medicare payments to physicians were 6% less than what you would expect based on the published Physician Fee Schedule? See below for deets
Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya JMP: "Competition and Attrition in Drug Development" Website: sites.google.com/virginia.edu/e…
Celtics legend Tommy Heinsohn has died, according to multiple league sources. bostonglobe.com/2020/11/10/spo…
Mergers of physician practices also raise prices. In this case, a merger of orthopedic practices raised price by 10-20 percent. Good work by @FTC economists Tom Koch and Shawn Ulrick on their latest piece in Economic Inquiry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…
👇👇 If we take market signals seriously, the evidence is overwhelming that Medicare rates offer ample profit margins for those offering health care services. Indeed, even at Medicare rates, the U.S. is almost certainly the most lucrative place in the world to practice medicine
Big @phrma paid mouthpieces are complaining about this Rand study b/c it looks at list prices for insulin-not net prices after rebates. But the authors note that U.S. prices would still have been around 4x higher than in other wealthy nations even when accounting for rebates.
