Marie Phillips

Jul 3, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Peter J. Neumann |Marie Phillips |Joshua Cohen

Value assessments in health care tend to focus on pharmaceuticals rather than services and procedures, despite the outsized contribution of services and procedures to health spending. We use the term “value assessment” to refer to explicit consideration of health benefits and economic costs through various analytic techniques. In the US, services and procedures comprise roughly 70 percent of health spending, but encompass 42 percent of published cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs).

Jun 1, 2024 | thisamericanlife.org | Marie Phillips

Someone writes into the advice column Dear Sugar to ask whether or not they should quit a relationship, and gets a strange but very persuasive response. (9 minutes)An adaptation of some of Cheryl Strayed’s columns is now streaming on Hulu.

May 24, 2024 | thisamericanlife.org | Emmanuel Dzotsi |David Kestenbaum |Marie Phillips

Guest host Emmanuel Dzotsi talks to Leroy Smith about how one high school basketball tryout forever changed Leroy’s relationship to a childhood friend. (7 minutes) A man finds himself sucked into an intense head-to-head running competition against a perfect rival – all for free burritos from Chipotle. (18 minutes) Writer Simon Rich grapples with an A.I. chatbot that threatens to make him obsolete.

Apr 30, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Daniel A. Ollendorf |Leah Z. Rand |Helen Mooney |Marie Phillips |Anirban Basu

From the time that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) first provided public guidance on its intended approach for negotiating the price of the first 10 drugs selected for Medicare’s drug price negotiation program, there has been much speculation on the gaps in the available guidance. For example, it’s all well and good to say that a number of factors will be used in negotiation, but how are those factors weighted and used to determine a numeric output, the price?