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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Randomized trial shows healthcare payment reform has equal-sized spillover effects on patients not targeted by reform.

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, Neale Mahoney

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract read
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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03407885 (The Impact of Medicare Bundled Payments), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03407885 nacompletednot on this map

The Impact of Medicare Bundled Payments: Evidence From a Nationwide Randomized Evaluation for Lower Extremity Joint Replacement

TypeinterventionalSponsorAmy FinkelsteinRan2016 to 2022Enrolled196ConditionsArthroplasty, ReplacementArmsBundled payments for knee and hip replacement
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. VOLUNTARY REGULATION: EVIDENCE FROM MEDICARE PAYMENT REFORM.The quarterly journal of economics · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liran EinavDepartment of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0003-3349-5356
Amy FinkelsteinNational Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138; afink@mit.edu.
Yunan JiGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0003-3382-8931
Neale MahoneyDepartment of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0002-3955-0187
National Bureau of Economic Research · USHarvard University · US

Funding

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING EPISODE-BASED HOSPITAL CAREP01AG019783 · NIA · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI Leila S. Agha · 2001 to 2026
$52.9M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019783
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in the way health insurers pay healthcare providers may not only directly affect the insurer's patients but may also affect patients covered by other insurers. We provide evidence of such spillovers in the context of a nationwide Medicare bundled payment reform that was implemented in some areas of the country but not in others, via random assignment. We estimate that the payment reform-which targeted traditional Medicare patients-had effects of similar magnitude on the healthcare experience of nontargeted, privately insured Medicare Advantage patients. We discuss the implications of these findings for estimates of the impact of healthcare payment reforms and more generally for the design of healthcare policy.

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Health Care ReformHealth PolicyHumansInsurance CoverageInsurance, HealthRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicUnited Statesbundled paymentshealthcarerandomized controlled trialspillover

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PMID32719129
PMCPMC7431052
OpenAlexW3046135587

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