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Item Improving American Retirement Prospects(2024-06-01) Wilschke, Peter; Kuruvilla, Arvind; Dyson, MatthewItem Immigration Attitudes and Labor Market Conditions in the United States(2024-03-22) Ayromloo, Shalise S; Firsin, OlegItem Does Section 230 Provide Platforms Too Much or Too Little Immunity?(Techology Policy Institute, 2021-07-07) Brennan, TimRead the latest work published by the fellows of Technology Policy Institute.Item Designing Optimal Recommended Budgeting Thresholds for a Medicaid Program(AJMC, 2022-07-14) Henderson, Morgan; Stockwell, IanObjectives: To develop and test a methodology for optimally setting automatic auditing thresholds to minimize administrative costs without encouraging overall budget growth in a state Medicaid program. Study Design: Two-stage optimization using administrative Maryland Medicaid plan-of-service data from fiscal year (FY) 2019. Methods: In the first stage, we use an unsupervised machine learning method to regroup acuity levels so that plans of service with similar spending profiles are grouped together. Then, using these regroupings, we employ numerical optimization to estimate the recommended budget levels that could minimize the number of audits across those groupings. We simulate the effects of this proposed methodology on FY 2019 plans of service and compare the resulting number of simulated audits with actual experience. Results: Using optimal regrouping and numerical optimization, this method could reduce the number of audits by 10.4% to 36.7% relative to the status quo, depending on the search space parameters. This reduction is a result of resetting recommended budget levels across acuity groupings, with no anticipated increase in the total recommended budget amount across plans of service. These reductions are driven, in general, by an increase in recommended budget level for acuity groupings with low variance in plan-of-service spending and a reduction in recommended budget level for acuity groupings with high variance in plan-of-service spending. Conclusions: Using machine learning and optimization methods, it is possible to design recommended budget thresholds that could lead to significant reductions in administrative burden without encouraging overall cost growth.Item Hilltop Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Hospital Pricing Behavior(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-08-01) The Hilltop InstituteItem Transparency In Coverage: A New Tool For Promoting Provider Gender Equity?(Health Affairs, 2023-08-30) Henderson, Morgan; Mouslim, MorganeItem How New Data On Hospital “Discounted Cash Prices” Might Lead To Patient Savings(Health Affairs, 2021-11-08) Mouslim, Morgane; Henderson, MorganIn a new HealthAffairs blog post, Hilltop researchers Morgane Mouslim, DVM, ScM, and Morgan Henderson, PhD, describe their continued work on hospital price transparency. Mouslim and Henderson have been investigating hospital price transparency and the effects of the January 2021 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule that requires hospitals to publish the prices of their services.Item The Price You Pay: Hospitals are posting procedure costs online, but consumers say price tags can still be hard to find(InvestigateTV, 2023-08-07) Molina, Daniela; DePompa, Rachel; Romans, PaytonItem One Year Later, Where Are The 'Transparency In Coverage' Compliance Studies?(Health Affairs, 2023-09-19) Henderson, Morgan; Mouslim, MorganeItem HCA doctors say its cost-cutting is endangering Appalachian patients — a warning for the whole U.S. health care system(STAT, 2023-11-30) Bannow, TaraItem Data Transparency(Incremental Healthcare, 2022-01-24) Terhayden, Nick vanItem The Utility of Data from Long-Term Care Assessments for Reducing Repeated Hospital Encounters among Medicare-Medicaid Dually Eligible Beneficiaries(2023) Fakeye, Oludolapo; Rana, Prashant; Han, Fei; Henderson, Morgan; Stockwell , IanItem The Hilltop Institute at UMBC to launch hospital price transparency research with $282,000 NSF grant(StateofReform, 2022-09-21) Pasia, NicoleItem Hilltop Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Insurer Pricing Data(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-12-14) The Hilltop InstituteItem Healthcare Upside/Down: Pricing Impacting Financially Vulnerable(ECG Management Consultants, 2022) Dr. NickItem Hilltop Researchers Assess Compliance with Hospital Price Transparency Regulation over Time(The Hilltop Institute, 2023-01-27) The Hilltop InstituteItem Hilltop Researcher Co-Authors JAMA: Internal Medicine Article on Validity of Hospital Pricing Data(The Hilltop Institute, 2023-09-18) The Hilltop InstituteItem Cash Prices for Emergency Room Facility Fees Vary with Hospital and Regional Characteristics(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-07-06) The Hilltop InstituteItem Reassessing the Contributions of Black Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation(The Economic and Business History Society, 2023-11-27) Andrews, Michael; Rothwell, Jonathan T.During the Second Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that Black Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, Black Americans tended to live in entirely different institutional environments than other Americans, particularly in the South under Jim Crow laws. Using a new database that matches inventors to census records, we find that patenting rates for Black Americans living in the North were very similar to patenting rates for White Americans from 1870 to 1940; in some decades and states, Northern Black patenting rates exceeded the patenting rate for White Americans. In the South, patenting rates were low for both Black and White Americans, while patenting rates for Northern Black residents were far higher than those for Southern White residents. We additionally find that Black Americans from all regions were responsible for more patents than immigrants from all but two countries (Germany and England). In total, we estimate that African Americans invented more than 50,000 patents over the period. Thus, when freed of extreme political oppression, Black Americans demonstrated a level of inventiveness that matched the most inventive groups in US history.Item Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007(Universidad De Costa Rica, 2014-01-01) Rowe, Samuel; Gindling, T.H.; Trejos, Juan DiegoIn this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes (2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year. We find that there is substantial year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica, especially in the middle of the income distribution. We also identify the factors that most affect year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica. We find that per capita income is conditionally convergent; low-income families are more likely to experience an increase in income than are high-income families. Aside from initial per capita income, the three most important factors that explain changes in per capita household income in Costa Rica are, in order of importance: (1) changes in the employment status of household members; (2) changes in the number of dependents (children, elderly and other non-working members) in the household; and (3) the education of household members, especially the household head.