Before the implementation of cost-sharing parity in Medicare, beneficiaries faced higher cost sharing for mental health services than for other medical services.
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis.
New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
In strategy, diagnosis precedes prescription. While accurate diagnosis does not always lead to a wise choice of treatments, misdiagnosis reliably predicts failed responses.
Given the different impact that the pandemic is having on individual communities across the country, the notion that all workers should be allowed to return to work on one date is unrealistic.
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only begin to imagine today.
Rising list prices are often used to illustrate the burden of prescription drug spending, but payers routinely negotiate rebates from manufacturers that generate differences between list and net price
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social
As coronavirus continues to spread, the Trump administration has declared a public health emergency and imposed quarantines and travel restrictions.
Get smart & reliable public policy insights right in your inbox.