The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
Jan 3, 2024
We experiment with recent ensemble machine learning methods in estimating healthcare costs, utilizing Finnish data containing rich individual-level information on healthcare costs, socioeconomic status and diagnostic data from multiple registries. Ou...
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
Aug 6, 2023
We develop a nonparametric model to study health spillover effects of policy interventions. We use double/debiased machine learning to estimate the model using data from 74 hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and examine cross-patient spillover effe...
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
Aug 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: Innovative provider payment methods that avoid adverse selection and reward performance require accurate prediction of healthcare costs based on individual risk adjustment. Our objective was to compare the performances of a simple neural ...