Meredith B. Rosenthal

2 months ago | jamanetwork.com | Christopher Lim |Nicholas Daley |David Cutler |Meredith B. Rosenthal

Telemedicine Adoption and Low-Value Care Use and Spending Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Beneficiaries Podcast (13:29) 0:00 / 0:00 Key PointsQuestion  What is the relationship between telemedicine adoption and low-value care use among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries?

Oct 30, 2024 | bmj.com | Meredith B. Rosenthal

Meredith B Rosenthal, C Boyden Gray professor of health economics and policy Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA Tackling the underlying drivers of healthcare costs in the US is both technically and politically difficult, writes Meredith B Rosenthal Unlike in previous US presidential elections, healthcare—aside from questions of access to abortion and gender affirming care—has not played a central role in the upcoming contest between former...

Jul 8, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Lindsay N. Overhage |Benjamin Cook |Benjamin Le Cook |Meredith B. Rosenthal |Alex McDowell

Disparities in Psychiatric Emergency Department Boarding of Children and Adolescents Key PointsQuestion  Are there racial, ethnic, or gender disparities in length of boarding or likelihood of inpatient admission for youth who board in emergency departments while awaiting inpatient psychiatric care?

Sep 29, 2023 | agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Caroline P. Thirukumaran |Kevin Fiscella |Meredith B. Rosenthal |Jalpa A. Doshi

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT Dr. Thirukumaran reports receiving speaker honoraria from the National Institutes of Health, Brown University, and Boston University; reviewer honoraria from the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Affairs; and serves as the Disparities Section Editor for Current Osteoporosis Reports, and Anesthesia and Analgesia.

Jul 27, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | J. Frank Wharam |Meredith B. Rosenthal

High out-of-pocket costs for health care have become ubiquitous in the US.1,2 In response, legislators have capped co-payments for an increasing number of high-value services. The recent Inflation Reduction Act mandated zero-dollar vaccines and limited insulin co-payments to $35 for Medicare beneficiaries. Almost half of states have enacted insulin out-of-pocket caps since 2020, and several have begun adopting cost-sharing limits for breast cancer diagnostic services.