Virginia senators on news state ACA insurance premiums will rise an average 20.5%: "While President Trump and congressional Republicans bent over backward to extend tax cuts for the uber-wealthy as part of their tax and budget bill, they chose not to renew these critical healthcare credits."

New @healthaffairs.bsky.social paper on how CMS can integrate formal aspects of #HTA, much of which is patterned after @icer-review.bsky.social practices! Many thanks to @commonwealthfund.org for their support. @basucally.bsky.social @leah-rand.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

New on FirstView: "Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulent Participants in Qualitative Research Can Skew Results" by @leah-rand.bsky.social, @akesselheim.bsky.social of @portalresearch.org & coauthors offers actionable ways to overcome the fraudulent participant problem. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Medicaid is the backbone of health coverage in Kentucky - and that is by far its most important role. Often unlooked, however, is the substantial role it plays in our economy. Through the care it pays for, jobs are created, workers supported, and economic activity is generated.

Out today! The latest in the series "Around the World in HTAs" from the OHE (@ohenews.bsky.social) is an overview of the Canadian process that I wrote with Chris Skedgel (@chrissked.bsky.social). If you need a general overview of the HTA process in Canada, check it out! www.ohe.org/insight/arou...

WATCH: @akesselheim.bsky.social testifies before @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social On NIH cuts - "...the next generation will look back at this moment & ask what we were doing while the Trump administration systematically disposed of 1000s of research projects that could've helped patients."

Check out the latest research from the PORTAL team in the April edition of our newsletter, featuring analysis on generic drug 'skinny labeling,' the expansion of the 340B program, a new form of product hopping, and much more! 🛟🧪 mailchi.mp/57ccd5e0b342...

The speed with which we are going backwards is beyond unsettling. Without public discourse, without debate, without Congressional input, without investigation into the impact and effect of these changes for the country ... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Each admin gets to put its own stamp on science funding priorities (w/ caveats around rigor, not using science $ to wage other political battles). One admin's priorities extend into the next and so on. But science cannot work if you burn it down every 4 years. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Nice piece by @peterneumann11.bsky.social showing how US-based CEAs continue to use QALYs as an outcome, despite the opposition of some. cevr.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/news/the-dea...

Join us tomorrow for a discussion of private equity in health care and policy solutions to protect patients and care quality Friday, FEB 7 12:30-1:30 pm on Zoom Register: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/x422s... @harvardchanschool.bsky.social @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social @portalresearch.org

🚨 Just out today (online)! 🚨 Our results show that a common argument against #QALYs (based on the use of subgroup analyses) is not justified with empirical data. With co-authors: @leah-rand.bsky.social , @wbfeldman.bsky.social, & @akesselheim.bsky.social from @portalresearch.org.

opportunity costs associated with NICE recommendations. Defo the most important h economics paper you will read today, maybe this week, maybe the year so far This is where the primary care budget gets spent A www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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