This study finds that Maryland's all-payer model for healthcare comparatively lowered the risk of complications from surgery, as well as reducing increases in associated costs.
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Oluseyi Aliu, Andrew W. P. Lee, Jonathan E. Efron, Robert S. D. Higgins, Charles ButlerSeptember 28, 2021
Existing innovation in outcomes measurement and resource management, coupled with the competitive pressures of Covid-19, create a unique window for value creation within surgical care, the authors write. Read their article in the Annals of Surgery.
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Kushal T. Kadakia, Lee Fleisher, C.J. Stimson, Thomas AloiaJuly 26, 2020
The winner’s curse — overestimating the value of an asset and therefore overpaying — is often associated with acquisitions of publicly-traded firms but not with private acquisitions. Using an event study methodology for over 22,000 private acquisitions of U.S. firms between 1985 and 2015, the authors examine a possible winner’s curse for such acquisitions, testing variables to determine what characteristics make a private company more likely to overestimate the asset's value.