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- FDA: Fast-review vouchers to be tied to lower US prices
- Why FDA rejects drugs (in their own words)
- Kaiser Health News on prior authorizations.
- Measles: 1,288 cases in the US this year
- Impact of ChatGPT on.
Why CMS/AHIP’s prior authorization changes won’t hurt payers. – Healthcare Economist
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 11, 2025
Myself and Kristy Piccinini, PhD from FTI Consulting published a new commentary in The Evidence Base titled “Perspectives from the Healthcare Economist: Why CMS/AHIP’s prior authorization changes won’t hurt payers.”
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Friday Links
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 5, 2025
- Trends in cost-related non-adherence.
- Optum Rx reduces reauthorization requirements.
- Changes in insulin out-of-pocket costs over time.
- AI and billable hours.
- Value in Health to include ‘Plan Language Summaries’
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This article is solely for.
Cost-effectiveness analysis model for sotagliflozin compared with insulin monotherapy for patients with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 2, 2025
That is the title of my latest paper in JMCP with co-authors Jaehong Kim, Shanshan Wang, Moises Marin, Slaven Sikirica, and Mariam Anderson. The study abstract is below.
Patients with type.
Impact of financial incentives on the value of the marginal drug – Healthcare Economist
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 2, 2025
From an interesting review paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Craig Garthwaite:
Although research and development investments clearly respond to market opportunities, the exact benefits.
20% of the economy will be spent on health care by 2033
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 1, 2025
CMS’s Office of the Actuary predicts that national healthcare expenditures (NHE) will increase from 17.6% of GDP in 2023 to 20.3% of GDP by 2033. The Keehan et al. (2025) paper.
Is “inflammaging” inevitable?
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - July 1, 2025
Based on a recent study in Nature Aging as summarized in the New York Times:
Inflammation is a natural immune response that protects the body from injury or infection. Scientists.
Weekend Reading
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - June 30, 2025
- Renaming schizophrenia: why, how, and what next?
- COVID-19 winners and losers.
- Labor market (not supply chain) caused COVID-19 inflation?
- Medicare Advantage dental benefits.
- NC eliminating parking minimums.
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This article is solely for informational.
What share of code is being written by AI? – Healthcare Economist
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - June 20, 2025
A paper by Daniotti et al. (2025) examines 80 million GitHub commits (2018–2024). The authors trained neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in the GitHub.
2025 Measles Outbreak – Healthcare Economist
DiagnosticTest.Pro
- Health Analysis - June 18, 2025
Here are statistics from the CDC about the 1,197 individuals (as of 13 June 2025) that have been infected with measles during the 2025 outbreak:
- 793 were children.
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