Research Library

By Philip W. Chui, Craig S. Parzynski, Joseph S. Ross, Nihar R. Desai, Hitinder S. Gurm, John A. Spertus, Arnold h. Seto, Vivian Ho and Jeptha P. Curtis Certificate of need regulations are intended to coordinate new health care services, limit expansion of unnecessary new infrastructure and limit health care costs. This study characterizes the association between state regulations and the appropriateness and outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions. JAHA: https://bit.ly/2QSWMNa

Center for Health and Biosciences director Vivian Ho discusses health care industry consolidation in testimony to the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on Dec, 10, 2018.

In the September 2018 issue of the Health Policy Research newsletter, Anaeze C. Offodile II, nonresident scholar in health policy, and Vivian Ho, director of the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences, discuss the role of consumerism as a driving social and economic force in the rapidly changing health care landscape.

By Kevin Erickson, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, Vivian Ho, Jay Bhattacharya, and Glenn M. Chertow The authors investigate if dialysis facility consolidation was associated with patient mortality. They find that decreased market competition for these facilities may have led to increased mortality for patients in areas with very few dialysis centers. Read this article in Value in Health at: https://bit.ly/2LXmTUR.