One doctor debates whether to work for the nation’s largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.
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Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the best treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
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The Stories That Made an Impact in 2023
In this special episode we reflect on a few of our favorite stories of 2023 and hear how they’re making a difference for patients and policymakers.
Posted inWorkforce
How a Doctor’s Peers Shape Prescribing Habits
A new NBER working paper reveals that doctors practicing alone write more inappropriate opioid prescriptions than doctors working in groups.
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More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
A growing number of hospitals are adopting programs to discuss and fix medical errors.
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Experts Pick the Year’s Scariest Health Policy Studies
In a special Halloween edition of Research Corner, Tradeoffs Advisory Board members share some of the scariest health policy studies they’ve read this year.
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A Quarter of Clinic Visits are No Longer with Doctors
A new study in The BMJ reveals that nurse practitioners and physician assistants now handle 25% of Medicare visits. The way those visits are billed makes it hard to know how that shift away from doctors is impacting care.
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When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
Tradeoffs research reporter Soleil Shah shares what he’s learning as a new medical resident about the value and limitations of health policy research.
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What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
During his 14 months as White House COVID Coordinator, Ashish Jha learned about building consensus, crafting practical policy and how to deal with imperfect data.
Posted inInsurance
1.5 Million People Are Losing Medicaid. How Worried Should We Be?
We go behind the numbers of the first few months of the Medicaid unwinding.