Archive for category: Publications

The newest publication by BAHM President Kevin Schulman and Barak Richman: Between 2014 and 2019, the proportion of physicians who were unionized grew by 26% (albeit from a low level), and this trend has accelerated over the past few years. It’s still too early to assess whether this new...

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Health insurance costs as a percentage of median family household income have increased from 13% to 25% from 2000 to 2021. For employers, health insurance costs for family health insurance have increased from $10 157 in 2000 to $22 463 in 2022, a 121% increase. But despite these increases, the value...

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Pinar Karaca-Mandic and her colleagues have proposed a bond designed to increase investments in social drivers of health interventions in Medicaid managed care. Read about this financial innovation in the latest issue of Health Affairs: https://bit.ly/3YybBYn. And register here for the webinar on the topic, part of BAHM’s Research...

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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the worst failings of the health care system, but it also stimulated a flurry of innovations that could lead to a much-improved delivery system. Evaluating and perhaps extending the record of successful innovation arising from the pandemic will require advocacy, courage, and data-driven leadership from...

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A new JAMA article co-authored by BAHM member Pinar Karaca-Mandic at the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management, outlines associations between 510(k) medical device regulatory characteristics and their recall probability: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2800188

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Patient satisfaction surveys have become a mainstay of the health care experience. Patients have become accustomed to responding to surveys, physicians attentively monitor their aggregate satisfaction scores, and public payers reward physicians and institutions with strong results. This reliance comes from good intentions. Patient satisfaction is an integral element...

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Using evidence derived from previously collected medical records to guide patient care has been a long-standing vision of clinicians and informaticians and one with the potential to transform medical practice. As a result of advances in technical infrastructure, statistical analysis methods, and the availability of patient data at scale,...

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The early administration of convalescent plasma from blood donors who recovered from #COVID19 did not prevent disease progression in acutely ill, high-risk COVID19 patients, according to a new multicenter study that includes work by BAHM President Kevin Schulman: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2103784?query=featured_home

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U.S. healthcare delivery has not benefitted from the same productivity growth as many other service industries, such as bricks and mortar retailing, a loss that has gravely diminished cost control and access. Regulatory capture, which creates barriers to venture capital (VC) investment, has curtailed VC investment in the new...

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Employers’ and employees’ health care costs continue to skyrocket. A solution is to allow employers to give employees pre-tax cash to purchase their own health insurance. This move, enabled by a newly enacted federal rule, would put competitive pressure on insurers, driving down costs, and leave more cash in...

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