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HERC: Measuring Health Preference

WebPreference measures not only health status, but also how the individual values their current health state. The valuation of the current health state usually covers the spectrum from …

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HERC: Measuring Costs for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

WebThe Public Health Service Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Medicine recommends a discount rate of 3%. View the section, "Discounting Healthcare Costs". …

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HERC: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

WebAn “impact inventory” that lists the health and non-health effects of an intervention is recommended for the societal reference case. Costs and benefits should be discounted at a 3% annual rate, to reflect the lower …

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HERC: Technical Report 37: The Effect of the COVID-19 …

WebImportant Veteran Health Issue. 1. Introduction. COVID-19 had a profound effect on US hospitals. The American Hospital Association has discussed how the pandemic has created financial insecurity for commercial …

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HERC: Budget Impact Analysis

WebThis difference can be important, as overhead can account for a substantial part of the cost of operating a hospital or health care system. return to top . Budget …

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HERC: VA Cost Data Overview

WebImportant Veteran Health Issue. *In general, VA requires veterans to get their medications from VA. As part of the VA Community Care program, Veterans can receive …

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HERC: Opportunity Costs

WebIn health care research, there exist opportunity costs of health as well, discussed more later in the context of cost effectiveness analyses. Researchers …

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HERC: HERC Inpatient Average Cost Data

WebMethods Inpatient Non-Medical/Surgical Care. To find the cost of inpatient stays in rehabilitation, domiciliary, psychiatric, substance abuse, and intermediate …

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HERC: Comparing VA Versus Non-VA Costs

WebComparison of VA and Medicare Costs. Decision makers and researchers often want to compare the costs of VA facilities to non-VA providers. Medicare is the …

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HERC: Guidebooks

WebHealth services researchers who use cost and utilization data to study efficiency and outcomes are often interested in identifying the provider of a service. This information is …

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HERC: Decision Analysis: Decision trees, Simulation Models, …

WebHealth effects can be measured in mutlple ways, but one common way of evaluating health effects in a CEA is a Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY. A cost …

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HERC: Identifying Providers in VA Administrative Data

WebThe National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to all health care …

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HERC: Using the Managerial Cost Accounting 4-Character National …

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HERC: Analyzing Cost Data

WebHealth care costs are not typically normally distributed. Some patients may incur a lot of costs for their health care, and some patients incur zero costs for their health care. In the …

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BD-STEP at VA Palo Alto Health Care System

WebHealth Economist, Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Key contributions to science: understanding the social production of health …

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HERC: Hiring/Collaborating with a Health Economist

WebSince health economists are recruited by the pharmaceutical industry, medical schools, and other professional schools, starting salaries for health economists tend to be higher than …

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Technical Report 28: Using Tobacco Health Factors Data for …

WebAmong 5.7 million users of VA care in fiscal year 2011, 4.0 million (70.3%) had a timely tobacco use status assessment in the health factors dataset. At the facility-level, health …

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