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Who Pays in Pay-for-Performance? 谁来支付绩效工资?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1086/723280
Michael E Darden, Ian Paul McCarthy, E. Barrette
Public pay-for-performance (P4P) programs tie hospital payments to predetermined sets of quality measures and are intended to encourage or discourage certain outcomes. To the extent that financial penalties from these programs induce some response by hospitals, such penalties may translate into higher negotiated payments from commercial insurance payers. In this paper, we employ data on commercial insurance payments from a large, multi-payer database to study the extent to which penalties levied under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program, two major P4P components of the Affordable Care Act, caused changes in private hospital payments. We find that the bulk of any penalties resulting from HRRP and HVBP are borne by private insurance patients in the form of higher private insurance payments. Specifically, we show that HRRP and HVBP financial penalties led to increases in private payments of 1.9 percent, with effects concentrated among circulatory system procedures. These penalties were also associated with a 3.1 percent reduction in Medicare discharges. Our estimates are larger for hospitals with higher shares of privately insured patients, which suggests the importance of hospital bargaining power in facilitating higher commercial insurance payments.
公共绩效付费(P4P)计划将医院支付与预先确定的质量衡量标准挂钩,旨在鼓励或阻碍某些结果。从某种程度上说,这些项目的经济处罚会引起医院的一些反应,这种处罚可能会转化为商业保险付款人更高的协商付款。在本文中,我们使用来自大型多付款人数据库的商业保险支付数据来研究在医院再入院减少计划(HRRP)和医院基于价值的采购(HVBP)计划(《平价医疗法案》的两个主要P4P组成部分)下征收的罚款在多大程度上导致私立医院支付的变化。我们发现,HRRP和HVBP造成的大部分罚款都是由私人保险患者以更高的私人保险支付的形式承担的。具体而言,我们表明HRRP和HVBP的经济处罚导致私人支付增加1.9%,影响集中在循环系统程序中。这些处罚还与减少3.1%的医疗保险出院有关。对于私人保险患者比例较高的医院,我们的估计更大,这表明医院议价能力在促进更高的商业保险支付方面的重要性。
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引用次数: 0
How Do “Must-Access” Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Address Opioid Misuse? “必须访问”处方药监测计划如何解决阿片类药物滥用问题?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI: 10.1086/722979
Benjamin Ukert, D. Polsky
The opioid epidemic led to the creation of state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) that eventually mandated access. We examine how these “must-access” PDMPs influenced prescribing after an emergency department (ED) visit and in the long term for the working-age population. By using data from a large multistate commercial insurance database from 2010 to 2014 and estimating difference-in-differences models, we show that only the broadest must-access PDMPs reduced opioid prescribing after an ED visit and in the long term. We then compared changes in prescribing rates for opioid naïve relative to non–opioid naïve individuals to disentangle the influence of information from administration costs on prescriber behavior. Findings suggest that hassle cost explains the majority of the decline in initial prescribing, and that the information value drives most of the reduction in long-term outcomes.
阿片类药物的流行导致了国家处方药监测计划(PDMPs)的创建,最终强制获取。我们研究了这些“必须访问”的PDMPs如何影响急诊科(ED)访问后的处方和长期的工作年龄人口。通过使用2010年至2014年大型多州商业保险数据库的数据并估计差异中的差异模型,我们表明只有最广泛的必须访问的PDMPs在ED就诊后和长期内减少了阿片类药物处方。然后,我们比较了阿片类药物naïve相对于非阿片类药物naïve个体的处方率变化,以理清管理成本信息对处方者行为的影响。研究结果表明,麻烦费用解释了最初处方减少的大部分原因,而信息价值导致了长期结果的大部分减少。
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引用次数: 0
Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age 电子烟最低合法购买年龄有效性的回归不连续性证据
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1086/723401
Jeffrey S. DeSimone, D. Grossman, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Increases in youth vaping rates and concerns of a new generation of nicotine addicts recently prompted an increase in the federal minimum legal purchase age (MLPA) for tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21 years. This study presents the first regression discontinuity evidence on the effectiveness of e-cigarette MLPA laws. Using data on 12th graders from Monitoring the Future, we obtain robust evidence that federal and state age 18 MLPAs decreased underage e-cigarette use by 15–20 percent and frequent use by 20–40 percent. These findings suggest that the age 21 federal MLPA could meaningfully reduce e-cigarette use among 18- to 20-year-olds.
最近,年轻人吸电子烟率的上升以及对新一代尼古丁成瘾者的担忧,促使包括电子烟在内的烟草产品的联邦最低合法购买年龄(MLPA)提高到21岁。本研究首次提出了关于电子烟MLPA法律有效性的回归不连续证据。通过对12年级学生的数据监测未来,我们获得了强有力的证据,联邦和州18岁的mlpa减少了15 - 20%的未成年人使用电子烟,减少了20 - 40%的频繁使用电子烟。这些发现表明,21岁的联邦MLPA可以有效地减少18至20岁青少年的电子烟使用。
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引用次数: 2
Learning to Work Together 学会一起工作
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-09-22 DOI: 10.1086/722605
Chad Stecher, Jonathan D. Ketcham
We study whether teams’ productivity improves as they gain experience working together. We leverage unique clinical data to observe team experience and individual physician and staff experience in coronary catheterization laboratories. Teams are composed of cardiologists, nurses, and technicians who work together synchronistically. We observe teams and individuals at hospitals across the United States from 2001 to 2009, including the rate at which they gain experience using drug-eluting stents (DES) from their introduction in the US in 2003 onward. We estimate models of productivity and clinical outcomes that account for team experience, physician experience, and staff experience conditional on each other and on time-invariant physician and staff characteristics, hospital-specific monthly effects, and an extensive set of patient-level clinical factors. Greater experience performing DES cases together improves teams’ productivity, lowering total case time, procedure time, and non-physician labor costs while leaving clinical outcomes unchanged. In contrast, physicians’ and staffs’ individual experience with DES does not improve productivity conditional on other factors. The effects of team experience with DES appears generalized, with gains from experience with competitor brands of DES about as large as those from the specific brand of DES being used for a given case.
我们研究团队的工作效率是否会随着团队合作经验的积累而提高。我们利用独特的临床数据来观察团队经验和个人医生和工作人员在冠状动脉导管实验室的经验。团队由心脏病专家、护士和技术人员组成,他们协同工作。从2001年到2009年,我们观察了美国各地医院的团队和个人,包括他们从2003年药物洗脱支架(DES)引入美国以来获得使用经验的比率。我们估计了考虑团队经验、医生经验和员工经验的生产力和临床结果模型,这些模型相互依赖,并取决于医生和员工的时变特征、医院特定的月度影响以及一系列广泛的患者层面的临床因素。一起执行DES病例的更多经验提高了团队的工作效率,降低了总病例时间、手术时间和非医生劳动力成本,同时保持临床结果不变。相比之下,医生和员工对DES的个人经验并没有提高生产力,这取决于其他因素。团队经验对DES的影响似乎是普遍的,从竞争对手品牌的DES经验中获得的收益与从特定品牌的DES中获得的收益大致相同。
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引用次数: 1
Caring to Work or Working to Care 关心工作还是关心工作
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.1086/722588
Gonzalo Arrieta, Jun Yu Li
We seek to understand how the labor market decisions of the family adjust in response to plausibly exogenous health shocks. Family members might work less to provide caregiving, or work more in response to medical expenditures and loss of income by the ill individual. We use records of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations to empirically determine the size of these effects. Using ED events, we find evidence of intra-family insurance. By exploring how insurance varies by the severity of the health shock, we find that family labor supply responses decrease as the caregiving need increases.
我们试图了解家庭的劳动力市场决策是如何对看似合理的外源性健康冲击做出调整的。家庭成员可能会减少工作以提供照顾,或者增加工作以应对病人的医疗支出和收入损失。我们使用急诊科(ED)访问和住院记录,以经验确定这些影响的大小。利用ED事件,我们找到了家庭内部保险的证据。通过探索保险如何随健康冲击的严重程度而变化,我们发现家庭劳动力供应响应随着照顾需求的增加而减少。
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引用次数: 3
The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Generosity on Population Mental Health 延长失业保险宽裕度对人口心理健康的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1086/722556
Jie Chen, Xiaohui Guo, Lizhong Peng, M. Qian
This study contributes to a small but growing literature on the health effects of unemployment insurance (UI) by examining the impact of extended benefit generosity during the Great Recession on population mental health. Using data from the 2003–13 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System as well as cross-state and time series variation in UI policies, we estimate that a one standard deviation (or $1,000) increase in UI generosity is associated with a 5.1 (0.5) percent improvement in self-reported mental health among the unemployed. We also provide evidence for the validity of our research design through an event study model and supplementary regressions that incorporate county or county-by-time fixed effects. However, we find no definitive evidence that UI affects general/physical health, health insurance, access to care, or health behaviors.
这项研究通过研究大衰退期间延长福利慷慨对人口心理健康的影响,为失业保险对健康影响的少量但不断增长的文献做出了贡献。利用2003-13年行为风险因素监测系统的数据以及UI政策的跨州和时间序列变化,我们估计UI慷慨度的一个标准差(或1000美元)增加与失业者自我报告的心理健康改善5.1%(0.5%)有关。我们还通过事件研究模型和补充回归为我们的研究设计的有效性提供了证据,补充回归包含了县或县的时间固定效应。然而,我们没有发现明确的证据表明UI会影响一般/身体健康、健康保险、获得护理或健康行为。
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引用次数: 0
The Effect of a Free Family Planning Program on Fertility 免费计划生育计划对生育率的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1086/722557
Aaron M. Gamino
In this paper, I estimate the effect of access to family planning clinics on birth rates. The Louisiana Family Planning Program opened more than 140 clinics between 1965 and 1970. By 1971, a family planning clinic was operating in each Louisiana county. Exploiting the variation in dates when clinics began operating in each county, I employ two-way fixed effects and staggered difference-in-differences designs to assess the impact of family planning access on birth rates. I find that clinic openings led to a 5 to 7 percent decrease in birth rates.
在本文中,我估计了获得计划生育诊所对出生率的影响。路易斯安那州计划生育项目在1965年至1970年间开设了140多家诊所。到1971年,一个计划生育诊所在路易斯安那州的每个县运作。利用每个县诊所开始运营日期的差异,我采用双向固定效应和交错差异设计来评估计划生育对出生率的影响。我发现开设诊所导致出生率下降了5%到7%。
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引用次数: 0
Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Diseases? 缩减班级规模能保护学生免受传染病的侵害吗?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/719354
M. Oikawa, Ryuichi Tanaka, S. Bessho, H. Noguchi
We evaluate the causal effect of class size (number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due to the flu, as an outcome of an infectious disease epidemic. For identification of causal effects, we apply a regression discontinuity design using discontinuous variation of class sizes, around the class size cap set by regulation, to administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the Tokyo metropolitan area from 2015 to 2017. Most classrooms in Japan are constructed in accordance with a standard of classroom area, 63 square meters; class size reduction improves social distancing among students in a classroom. We find that class size reduction is effective in reducing class closures due to the flu: a one-unit reduction of class size decreases class closure by about 5 percent. Additionally, forming small classes with 27 students at most, satisfying the social distancing of 1.5 meters recommended to prevent droplet infection including influenza and COVID-19, reduces class closure by about 90 percent. Moreover, we find that the older the students, the larger the effects of class size reduction. Our findings provide evidence for the effectiveness of social distancing policy in primary and middle schools to protect students from droplet infectious disease spread, including COVID-19.
我们评估了班级规模(教室里的学生人数)对流感导致的停课发生率的因果影响,流感是传染病流行的结果。为了确定因果效应,我们将回归不连续设计应用于2015年至2017年东京都内最大城市之一的公立中小学生的行政数据,该设计使用了班级规模的不连续变化,围绕法规设定的班级规模上限。日本的大多数教室都是按照63平方米的教室面积标准建造的;班级人数的减少提高了学生在课堂上的社交距离。我们发现,减少班级规模可以有效地减少流感导致的班级关闭:减少一个单元的班级规模可以减少约5%的班级关闭。此外,组建最多27名学生的小组,满足预防包括流感和新冠肺炎在内的飞沫感染所建议的1.5米社交距离,将停课减少约90%。此外,我们发现年龄越大的学生,班级规模缩小的影响越大。我们的研究结果为中小学保持社交距离政策保护学生免受包括新冠肺炎在内的飞沫传染病传播的有效性提供了证据。
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The Value of an Additional Day of Post-acute Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility 在专业护理机构额外进行一天急性期后护理的价值
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI: 10.1086/721706
R. Werner, Norma B. Coe, Mingyu Qi, R. Konetzka
With ongoing efforts to improve the value of health care in the United States and reduce wasteful spending, we examine empirically the value trade-offs involved in an additional day in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after hospital discharge. To control for potential endogeneity, we use the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage in each county-year as an instrument for individuals’ SNF length of stay among Traditional Medicare beneficiaries, as local Medicare Advantage penetration puts downward pressure on SNF length of stay for all SNF patients but does not directly affect utilization management of those enrolled in Traditional Medicare. We also test for heterogeneity in treatment effect across patients by clinical complexity and two non-health-related factors, marital status and nursing home profit status. We find that one additional day in a SNF lowers short-term readmission rates, but this effect is small and heterogeneous across patient types. The most clinically complex patients (those with the longest predicted SNF stays) benefit the most from an additional SNF day, as do patients whose stays are shorter because of non-health-related factors. The cost savings from reduced readmission rates are small and do not offset the additional SNF costs.
随着不断努力提高美国医疗保健的价值和减少浪费的支出,我们从经验上考察了出院后在熟练护理机构(SNF)多呆一天所涉及的价值权衡。为了控制潜在的内生性,我们使用每个县每年参加医疗保险优势的医疗保险受益人的百分比作为传统医疗保险受益人中个人SNF停留时间的工具,因为当地医疗保险优势的渗透对所有SNF患者的SNF停留时间施加了下行压力,但并不直接影响那些参加传统医疗保险的人的利用管理。我们还通过临床复杂性和两个非健康相关因素(婚姻状况和养老院盈利状况)检验了患者治疗效果的异质性。我们发现在SNF多住一天会降低短期再入院率,但这种影响很小,而且在不同类型的患者中存在差异。临床最复杂的患者(预测SNF停留时间最长的患者)从额外的SNF日中获益最多,因为非健康相关因素而停留时间较短的患者也是如此。减少再入院率所节省的成本很小,不能抵消额外的SNF成本。
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Childhood Health Conditions and Lifetime Labor Market Outcomes 儿童健康状况与终身劳动力市场结果
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.1086/721573
M. Flores, B. Wolfe
We explore the influence that different dimensions of early life health, such as the experience of epilepsy or a significant mental, physical, or general health problem, have on numerous lifetime labor market outcomes and patterns of life cycle employment. The data we use include over 81,000 males and females from the 29 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. Our results show that for men, all four dimensions of early life health impose a penalty for nearly all the lifetime labor market outcomes we consider, but those with childhood mental health problems tend to do worst. These penalties are often only somewhat larger than those of men with epilepsy but more than twice and five times larger than those with, respectively, poor general or adverse physical health during childhood. Women appear less affected by adverse early life health, although we find evidence of similar employment penalties for those with epilepsy and poor general health during childhood. Our life cycle analysis is consistent but provides more insight into the timing of reduced employment and full-time employment, thereby extending earlier studies in this literature. Overall, our results highlight the potential lifetime work gains for public health policies that help to prevent or comprehensively treat poor general health, mental health problems, or epilepsy during childhood.
我们探讨了早期生命健康的不同维度,如癫痫的经历或重大的心理、身体或一般健康问题,对许多终身劳动力市场结果和生命周期就业模式的影响。我们使用的数据包括欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查中来自29个国家的81000多名男性和女性。我们的研究结果表明,对于男性来说,早期健康的所有四个维度都会对我们考虑的几乎所有终身劳动力市场结果产生影响,但那些有儿童心理健康问题的人往往表现最差。这些惩罚通常只比患有癫痫的男性略大,但分别是儿童时期身体健康状况不佳或不良的男性的两倍和五倍多。尽管我们发现有证据表明,儿童时期患有癫痫和总体健康状况不佳的女性受到类似的就业惩罚,但女性似乎较少受到不良早期健康的影响。我们的生命周期分析是一致的,但对减少就业和全职就业的时间提供了更多的见解,从而扩展了本文献中早期的研究。总的来说,我们的研究结果突出了公共卫生政策的潜在终身工作收益,这些政策有助于预防或全面治疗儿童时期的总体健康状况不佳、心理健康问题或癫痫。
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