Episode 90: Ziad Obermeyer on the Mortality Effects of Making Patients Contribute to the Cost of their Drugs

Ziad Obermeyer is an Associate Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

The paper discussed in this episode is ‘The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing’, by Ziad Obermeyer, Amitabh Chandra, and Evan Flack.

Papers mentioned in this episode include:

Brot-Goldberg, Z. C., Chandra, A., Handel, B. R., & Kolstad, J. T. (2017). What does a deductible do? The impact of cost-sharing on health care prices, quantities, and spending dynamics. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(3), 1261-1318.

Mullainathan, S., & Obermeyer, Z. (2022). Diagnosing physician error: A machine learning approach to low-value health care. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(2), 679-727.