Sharing Your Research for Maximum Impact
By: Bonnie Tse, MPS, and Bruce Schackman, PhD, MBA, at the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH) In today’s digital and media...
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By Brandyn F. Churchill The 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting included an ASHEcon sponsored session on Hospital Mergers, Markups, and Executive Compensation chaired by Dereck Jenkins (Rice University). The...
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By Anne M. Burton, Barton Willage, and Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar Discussing a paper at a conference is something that many of us have seen and done but have often wondered (especially when starting out...
View ArticleBrief on CMS Attempt to Restrict Data Access
By Colleen Carey, Lauren Nicholas, and Eric Roberts The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced plans to severely curtail access to Medicare and Medicaid data, changing...
View ArticleA Guide to Conferences for Health Economists
By Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage You are no doubt familiar with ASHEcon but there are many other conferences both local and international that can provide great opportunities for presenting your...
View ArticleWearing Two Hats: The “Why, When, and How” of Being a (Health) Economist and...
By Sumedha Gupta and Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar Economics as a discipline has always stressed the value of causal inference. In other disciplines such as health services research, however, descriptive...
View ArticleWelcome to San Diego!
By Brandyn Churchill and Joe Sabia As two people who truly adore San Diego — Brandyn as an alumnus who loves returning and Joe as a faculty member who just can’t leave — we are thrilled that ASHEcon...
View ArticleData Corner Episode 0: A Brief Overview
By Barton Willage New health economics researchers quickly discover a vast landscape of data, both common sources and those that are less often used. Data are key to all of our research, but it can...
View ArticleSummary of the 2024 ASHEcon Opening Plenary on Medical Price Transparency
By Anne M. Burton The 2024 ASHEcon conference in San Diego started off with a thought-provoking opening plenary entitled, “Medical Price Transparency from Insurers: Where Are We and What is Next for...
View ArticleIHEA and ASHEcon Introduce 2024 Initiatives in Digital Health and Innovation
By Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Ph.D., UMass Amherst The IHEA Special Interest Group on Digital Health Technology After nearly a year of preparation, the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Digital Health Technology...
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