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    • 22 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

    by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

    Amazon has disrupted everything from grocery shopping to cloud computing, but can it transform health care with its One Medical acquisition? Amitabh Chandra discusses company's track record in health care and the challenges it might face.

    • 02 Jun 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

    by Michael Blanding

    Research by Amitabh Chandra offers a stark new explanation for racial disparities in heart attack survival rates—a problem with immediate answers. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing

    by Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer

    Small increases in cost cause patients to reduce their use of drugs with major benefits, ultimately causing their death. Since patient cost-sharing introduces large and deadly distortions into the cost-benefit calculus, payers should evaluate the merits of policies in light of their impact on health, not just on health care costs.

    • 04 Jan 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

    by Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani, and Adam Sacarny

    Black Americans experience disparities in health outcomes in the United States relative to other demographic groups. This study of heart attack sufferers over two decades develops a framework to examine the allocation of health care and the effectiveness of medical treatments, including beta-blockers and other technologies.

    • 28 Sep 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?

    by Amitabh Chandra, Courtney Coile, and Corina Mommaerts

    This essay discusses the role of market frictions and "missing medicines" in drug innovation and highlights how frameworks and toolkits of economists can help our understanding of the determinants and effects of Alzheimer's disease on health.

    • 01 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

    by Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra

    Retail pharmacy data illustrates it can be misleading to use list prices instead of net prices to understand pharmaceutical prices. Analysts and economists working in public policy should be extremely cautious in drawing policy conclusions based on list prices alone.

    • 22 May 2020
    • In Practice

    Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

    by Danielle Kost

    The coronavirus pandemic might lead to major changes in patient care, physician compensation, and regulation. Experts from Harvard Business School's Health Care Initiative share their predictions. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 Jan 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger

    This economic study finds evidence of allocative inefficiency and substantial variation in comparative advantage across hospitals, with the benefits from treatment being much higher in some hospitals than others. The study overall suggests new directions for research on productivity in healthcare.

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