Healthcare Economist

From the very interesting book Why Fish Don’t Exit by Lulu Miller.

To some people, a dandelion might look like a weed, but to others that same plant can be so much more. To an herbalist, it’s a medicine–a way of detoxifying the liver, clearing th...

ICER found GLP-1 drugs to be cost effective for treating obesity. If that is the case, why don’t more US payers cover the GLP-1 drugs? Clearly, one reason is the cost given the sheer volume of patients i nthe US ...

Ingestible sensors are emerging as a promising frontier in gastroenterology, offering a minimally invasive way to monitor the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in real time. Instead of relying solely on endoscopy or colonoscopy—which are costly, invasive, and often avoided by patients—swallowable devices can capture biochemical signals such as gases and redox balance as they pass t...

How can we characterize the epidemiology and health care resource utilization of Americans with schizophrenia? This is the question a new paper in JMCP by Parks et al. (2026) aims to answer among patients enrolled in Medicaid. The authors use Transformed Medicaid Sta...