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Economist, professor at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.

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Tal Gross
1 year
I'm teaching two MBA classes this semester: Health Strategy and Managerial Economics. If you are an instructor and my slides might be useful for you, please DM me. I'll send them over.
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Tal Gross
2 years
If you're in San Antonio tomorrow, 2:30 PM Friday, please join us at @uchicagopress booth #303 at ASSA, for a giveaway of BETTER HEALTH ECONOMICS. We’ll have fifty copies on hand, first come, first serve. There will also be drinks, depending on Texas law and conference rules.
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Tal Gross
2 years
Thank you everyone who pre-ordered Better Health Economics, my new book with @ProfNoto. For everyone else, you can DM / email me for review material, class notes, slides, etc. You can also just request an instructor copy here:.
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Tal Gross
2 years
If you sketch slides with pencil and paper, ChatGPT can convert them into Beamer.
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Tal Gross
2 years
You can also request an instructor’s review copy by following the link on the book’s publisher website, here.
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Tal Gross
2 years
If you teach health economics, please email or DM me to get access to an early (protected) PDF of the book. We hope you’ll consider adopting it for spring courses. It’s inexpensive and very suitable for students of any level.
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Tal Gross
2 years
Here's the Amazon link. and the official page.
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Tal Gross
2 years
The amazing team at @UChicagoPress helped us through the entire process. The book will be available wherever you get your books this January. In fact, you can pre-order a copy now on the press's web site or on Amazon.
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Tal Gross
2 years
We wrote a non-traditional textbook, a summary of what health economics is and why we love the field. We wrote the book to be a readable, fun tour of what our field has to offer. We hope you like it and buy multiple copies.
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Tal Gross
2 years
May I have your attention please: @ProfNoto and I wrote a book. We are pleased to announce. Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone
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Tal Gross
3 years
Wrote up a short summary of my paper with @prinzdani and @timothyjlayton for HBR here:.
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Tal Gross
4 years
The paper is out this morning as an NBER Working Paper. Link Below.
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Tal Gross
4 years
So, bottom line, when policymakers play with hospital reimbursement, they not only change the price of each visit, they also end up changing the quantity of visits provided.
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Tal Gross
4 years
In order to treat more Medicare patients, hospitals hired more nurses and shortened average length of stay. Here's the same binned scatter plot, but looking at the change in average length of stay for Medicare patients.
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Tal Gross
4 years
Here's one way to see the key result of the paper: a binned scatterplot. The vertical axis plots hospitals' change in Medicare visits before and after the policy change; the horizontal axis plots hospitals' change in reimbursement.
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Tal Gross
4 years
We find a big effect: hospitals that saw an increase in their Medicare reimbursement rates started to admit more Medicare patients. The key elasticity is close to unity: a 10 percent increase in Medicare reimbursement leads to 10 percent more Medicare patients.
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Tal Gross
4 years
To answer that question, we study how hospitals responded to a 2008 policy change that transformed the way that Medicare calculated their per-visit rates. Some hospitals saw a big increase in their reimbursement, others saw a big decrease.
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Tal Gross
4 years
A key question: how do hospitals respond when their per-visit reimbursement rate changes? The answer is not obvious. And a legitimate null hypothesis is that hospitals don't respond at all. Hospitalizations are extreme events that cannot be manipulated for financial reasons.
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Tal Gross
4 years
A big part of health policy centers on figuring out how to pay hospitals. There now exists an alphabet soup of federal programs that change how much Medicare pays hospitals: HACRP, HRRP, and HVBPP, to name a few.
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Tal Gross
4 years
New Working Paper: “Regulated Revenues and Hospital Behavior: Evidence from a Medicare Overhaul.” This is joint work with @adamess, @maggieshi311, and David Silver. 🧵.
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