Geronimo Bejarano

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

Interested in using synthetic control, but you only have one control unit and several treatment units? How about several control and treatment units? I have a new working paper on the Synthetic Treatment Method (STM) and Synthetic Control And Treatment Method (SCATM).

Medicare/Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act gave more Americans health insurance protection than ever before. So why do racial disparities in health care still exist? Harvard researchers explore how the design of health insurance markets in the United States contributes to health inequities.

How does the design of U.S. health insurance markets contribute to racial disparities in health care? @marcellaalsan.bsky.social examines the history of the market-based approach to health care delivery and how racial inequities have been embedded into the system: www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

New publication with co-authors Jim Eubanks and Robert Braun we assess the geographic trends of PE acquisitions of pain management practices jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Some news ...

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the Brown School of Public Health as a Professor of Health Services Policy & Practice this upcoming summer, 2025! I'm excited for the move and the opportunity to grow my research in new directions.

hspp.sph.brown.edu

I'm teaching an online two-day workshop on advanced IV topics this February 10th and 12th, through @causalinf.bsky.social's Mixtape platform. All are welcome. Sign up here!

www.mixtapesessions.io/session/iv_f...

graduateschool.brown.edu/news/2024-12...

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx...

(cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!)

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I am thrilled to lead the new Cornell Health Policy Center with the incredible @colleenlbarry.bsky.social and the best imaginable leadership team! @wschpero.bsky.social @ambond.bsky.social Dhruv Khullar Jeff Niederdeppe Maria Fitzpatrick Sean Nicholson Kayla Tormohlen

Perceptions of prior authorization burden and solutions Abstract. The prior authorization (PA) process consumes time and money on the part of patients, providers, and payers. While some research shows substantia

Prior authorization can be a time-consuming and burdensome process for providers, private payers, and patients.
Excited to share our latest @Health_Affairs article exploring perspectives on PA burden and receptivity to possible changes in the PA process: academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Welcome new followers! Super excited to see the econ and health policy communities reconstituted over here. I'm now at over half my Twitter follower count #econsky #healthpolicy #medsky

Value-based care seems to mostly be about coming up with new acronyms to avoid using HMO.

Unexpected (to me) finding. Near-elderly marketplace enrollees actually ~stabilize~ the nongroup risk pool.

Key policy implication: "lowering the Medicare eligibility age would likely increase" marketplace premiums. Authors are from CBO (yes, that CBO).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🩺📊

Very happy to see this in print! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bottom line: reductions in colorectal cancer incidence from screening are twice as large as we might think from typical trial reports & shockingly homogeneous

Useful podcast with tons of links to sources. Merger analysis wonk must-have.

New publication of our Cochrane review protocol assessing the effectiveness of exercise for chronic low back pain delivered by non licensed professionals (e.g., personal trainers, peers, yoga instructors) compared to licensed HCP’s. www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

New Jersey's DOBI lays a trap for elderly enrollees in the ACA marketplace You're not eligible for Medicare? Prove it.

New Jersey's ACA marketplace has become dangerous for some 9000 enrollees over age 65 (e.g., immigrants who lack 10 years' work history required for Medicare).

Marketplace insurers can deem any enrollee over age 65 Medicare-eligible unless they prove otherwise. 1/

New study on PE in hospice finds several interesting results. The one that caught my eye the most is this figure in the supplement showing the decline in assisted living and rise of home as site of care. #healthpolicy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New here, so by way of intro:

I'm a PhD candidate in Health Services Research at Brown University on the job market.

I study opportunities to improve the value of health care spending (w/a focus on Medicare Advantage & commerical) and previously worked at the Mass HPC.

hannahjames.me
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“due to excessive hospital costs in Monterey County, workers covered by this contract will not get a wage increase this year. Instead, the $.50 hourly increase negotiated for the coming year will pay for health insurance.” #healthpolicy laborcenter.berkeley.edu/why-are-heal...