Just out in JAH: We address lack of information prevalence of complex medical conditions in Medicaid across the transition to adulthood (ages 15-25) among older teenagers and young adults. Estimates for 47 states + DC: www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

Absolutely honored to win this year's James F. Burgess Methods Article-of-the-Year Award, along with @betsyqcliff.bsky.social @juliaedd.bsky.social and @markmeiselbach.bsky.social for our HSR article on deductible imputation in administrative claims datasets! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New health spending data out today: National health expenditures - which includes spending by private and public payers - were up 7.5% in 2023, reaching nearly $5 trillion (!) www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

"Because health insurance has become the face of both the rising premiums and the intrusive cost-containment efforts that are largely delegated to them, they have become the primary target of that anger. But it’s not just insurers," Elliott S. Fisher writes: www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...

Agreed—excellent essay. In funding and publishing researchers rely on crisis language to elevate importance. I love her point that—in public messaging—that can be harmful

Huge, huge thanks to @shooshan.bsky.social who took on the work of compiling many more health economists than I had yet added to the Starter Pack. So many names I recognize for early health econ Twitter, and so many new voices that I don't but look forward to hearing from. bsky.app/starter-pack...

@cynthiaccox.bsky.social looked at this. Turns out new mothers have a lot of other expenses, and a little bit of cost-sharing is enough to push some into debt. www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/medica...

For a social scientist, this is basically winning the lottery

#EconSky and #healthpolicy - Want to research health insurance but don't have plan deductibles in your data? Imputing is easier than you might think! @markmeiselbach.bsky.social, Matt Eisenberg, Julia Eddelbuettel and I show you how in a new HSR Methods Brief (doi.org/10.1111/1475...)