Alex Everhart
@aoeverhart.bsky.social
Instructor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, health economist studying development and adoption of medical technology.
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Alex Everhart
@aoeverhart.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Finally gave up on the garbage website. So my usual stuff:
- Medical devices usually aren't tested in humans before they're used in clinical practice, and we don't have a good way of tracking them after they're used.
- I'm really into Rivals of Aether 2, let me know if you play!
- Medical devices usually aren't tested in humans before they're used in clinical practice, and we don't have a good way of tracking them after they're used.
- I'm really into Rivals of Aether 2, let me know if you play!
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If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.
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As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
I've come around to the idea that many alternative payment models are really limited in the traditional Medicare space because they can't stop people from using expensive care from non-model participants. ACOs and episode-based payment models can't control "leakage" enough to be very effective.
🚨New Publication🚨 Risk-based provider payment is more common in Medicare Advantage than any other segment of US health care financing. What happens to broad categories of health care utilization, and low-value service use, when provider groups adopt these contracts? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Health Care Utilization and Low-Value Service Use After Risk-Based Contract Adoption
This cohort study examined whether health care organizations’ transition to risk-based payment contracts in Medicare Advantage was associated with changes in health care utilization or use of low-valu...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've come around to the idea that many alternative payment models are really limited in the traditional Medicare space because they can't stop people from using expensive care from non-model participants. ACOs and episode-based payment models can't control "leakage" enough to be very effective.
Uhhh, very rude to completely call out my 2025 reading list like that
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Uhhh, very rude to completely call out my 2025 reading list like that
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Wow. @jjmcdona.bsky.social of @factcheck.org says she doesn’t use the term #misinformation anymore bc it’s been politicized and become a trigger word. “It doesn’t mean anything anymore,” she said at #SciWri25. She now just says things are false or untrue.
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Wow. @jjmcdona.bsky.social of @factcheck.org says she doesn’t use the term #misinformation anymore bc it’s been politicized and become a trigger word. “It doesn’t mean anything anymore,” she said at #SciWri25. She now just says things are false or untrue.
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The scientist running the study, Dr. Vivian Ho of Rice University, is brilliant and has done a lot of great work on unfair billing practices (and gotten some crazy blowback for it).
I just submitted a bill for her analysis. They don't need any personal info, so redact your name and account numbers
I just submitted a bill for her analysis. They don't need any personal info, so redact your name and account numbers
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The scientist running the study, Dr. Vivian Ho of Rice University, is brilliant and has done a lot of great work on unfair billing practices (and gotten some crazy blowback for it).
I just submitted a bill for her analysis. They don't need any personal info, so redact your name and account numbers
I just submitted a bill for her analysis. They don't need any personal info, so redact your name and account numbers
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Want to help check up on whether health insurance companies are meaningfully complying with price transparency laws?
Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...
Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...
This health economist wants your medical bills • An Arm And a Leg
Economist Vivian Ho has been researching the US health care system for four decades. These days she focuses on what she describes as the biggest burden on
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November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Want to help check up on whether health insurance companies are meaningfully complying with price transparency laws?
Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...
Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...
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In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.
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I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
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Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Our group at Illinois Gies College of Business is hiring! We are especially interested in public or environmental economists. Our group includes myself, @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Nolan Miller, Jeff Brown, Riley League, and Mackenzie Alston.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵
Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨
Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵
Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵
"Privately funded basic biomedical R&D is only viable when the market for it is good, and we didn't know it was going to be bad." - one of the people most likely to be able to tell whether the market was going to be good or not
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Privately funded basic biomedical R&D is only viable when the market for it is good, and we didn't know it was going to be bad." - one of the people most likely to be able to tell whether the market was going to be good or not
Very good article, pretty sad. Really seems like the manufacturer is selling the NFL the opportunity to have plausible deniability more than anything else. "We used the best technology available to us to prevent concussions." Doesn't matter if it actually works.
Check out my latest:
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway
“This is not just about one device. It’s about what happens when institutions grow comfortable living in their own ambiguity and hiding behind opacity.”
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November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Very good article, pretty sad. Really seems like the manufacturer is selling the NFL the opportunity to have plausible deniability more than anything else. "We used the best technology available to us to prevent concussions." Doesn't matter if it actually works.
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We've been here before but let's see how FDA responds this time w/ Prasad wielding his influence. (I'm sure WSJ ed board + Loomer are already drafting their 2 cents...)
"Sarepta's Duchenne confirmatory trial fails, but biotech will ask FDA for full approval anyways"
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"Sarepta's Duchenne confirmatory trial fails, but biotech will ask FDA for full approval anyways"
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November 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We've been here before but let's see how FDA responds this time w/ Prasad wielding his influence. (I'm sure WSJ ed board + Loomer are already drafting their 2 cents...)
"Sarepta's Duchenne confirmatory trial fails, but biotech will ask FDA for full approval anyways"
endpoints.news/duchenne-con...
"Sarepta's Duchenne confirmatory trial fails, but biotech will ask FDA for full approval anyways"
endpoints.news/duchenne-con...
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An FDA official told my colleague that the remaining user fee funding for the medical product centers, which includes the new drug, generic drug and biosimilar programs, likely can last through December.
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US FDA User Fee Balances Holding, Thanks In Part To Earlier Staff Cuts
An agency official said reserve user fee money is expected to continue funding application review and other activities for several more weeks.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
An FDA official told my colleague that the remaining user fee funding for the medical product centers, which includes the new drug, generic drug and biosimilar programs, likely can last through December.
insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/p...
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Will Stancil epistemology is undefeated
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Will Stancil epistemology is undefeated
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So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
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Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
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October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
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October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is!
(h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)
(h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)
Development of an Atlas for US Pediatric Acute Care
This cross-sectional study offers a national US atlas of pediatric acute care centers in the US.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@allanmjoseph.bsky.social has been telling me there needs to be a "Dartmouth Atlas, but for pediatrics" for maybe a literal decade? And now there is!
(h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)
(h/t to coauthor @johngraves.bsky.social)
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I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...
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CMS head Mehmet Oz said new technology will allow Medicaid enrollees to verify their incomes “within seven minutes” for upcoming work mandates. What have two pilot tests of the tech in Arizona and Louisiana shown so far? Not much. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Officials Show Little Proof That New Tech Will Help Medicaid Enrollees Meet Work Rules - KFF Health News
The Trump administration says it’s developing a digital tool to help people prove they’re meeting new Medicaid work requirements. KFF Health News talked to officials from the two states running pilot ...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
CMS head Mehmet Oz said new technology will allow Medicaid enrollees to verify their incomes “within seven minutes” for upcoming work mandates. What have two pilot tests of the tech in Arizona and Louisiana shown so far? Not much. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...