Tracking Medical Spending

Attributing medical spending to conditions: A comparison of methods.
Kaushik Ghosh, Irina Bondarenko, Kassandra Messer, Susan T. Stewart, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B. Rosen & David M. Cutler (2020). PLoS One, 15(8):e0237082.

Explaining the slowdown in spending growth for the elderly Medicare beneficiaries between 1999 and 2012.
David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Kassandra Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Susan T. Stewart & Allison B. Rosen (2019).
Health Affairs, 38(2): 222-229.

Strengthening National Data to Better Measure What We Are Buying in Health Care: Reconciling National Health Expenditures with Detailed Survey Data.
Allison B. Rosen, Kaushik Ghosh, Emily S. Pape, Marcelo Coca Perraillon, Irina Bondarenko, Kassandra L. Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Susan T. Stewart, & David M. Cutler (2017)
(NBER Working Paper 23290)

Attribution of Health Care Costs to Diseases: Does the Method Matter?
Allison B. Rosen, Ana Aizcorbe, Tina Highfill, Michael E. Chernew, Eli Liebman, Kaushik Ghosh & David M. Cutler (2018). Chapter in Aizcorbe A, Baker C, Berndt ER, Cutler DM (Eds). “Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs.” University of Chicago Press, pp. 173-210.

Policy makers will need a way to update bundled payments that reflects highly skewed spending growth of various care episodes.
Allison B. Rosen, Ana Aizcorbe, Nestoriak N, David M. Cutler & Michael E. Chernew (2013).
Health Affairs, 32(5): 944-951.

Comparing Commercial Systems for Characterizing Episodes of Care.
Allison B. Rosen, Eli Liebman, Ana Aizcorbe & David M. Cutler (2012), Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Household Consumption Expenditures for Medical Care: An Alternate Presentation.
Ana Aizcorbe, Eli Liebman, David M. Cutler, Allison B. Rosen (2012).
Survey of Current Business, 92(6),34.

Measuring Health Care Costs of Individuals with Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the U.S.: a Comparison of Survey and Claims Data .
Ana M. Aizcorbe, Eli Liebman , Sarah J. Pack , David M. Cutler , Michael E. Chernew & Allison B. Rosen (2012).
Bureau of Economic Analysis paper and article in Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 28(12): 43-51.

Challenges in Building Disease-Based National Health Accounts.
Allison B. Rosen & David M. Cutler (2009).
Medical Care, 47(7 Suppl 1): S7-S13.

Estimation of Disease-specific Health Care Costs Using Causal Inference Framework.
Irina Bondarenko and Trivellore Raghunathan. Presentation at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA.