Through our ongoing work with the American Optometric Association (AOA) and the American Dental Association (ADA), Avalon has recently conducted survey research to update our 2016 “Analysis of Dental and Vision Plan Non-Covered Services and Materials Mandates.”
read moreIn 2016, we conducted a survey-based study of optometry and dentistry in North Carolina and Texas to determine the impact on fees charged in states with laws prohibiting insurers from setting fees for non-covered services.
read moreFocusing only on cases and deaths hides the pandemic’s lasting health burden on people, societies and economies. The COVID-19 pandemic is well into its second year, but countries are only beginning to grapple with the lasting health crisis.
read moreChronic kidney disease (CKD) is a costly public health issue, which affects 13.4% of the population globally.
read moreTogether with our colleagues at Broadstreet Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Avalon’s John Schneider took part in an ISPOR workshop entitled “Lost in Transmission: Analytic Applications of Public Health Data to Inform Evaluations of the Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Value of Interventions for COVID-19.”
read moreJohn Schneider and Amanda Howarth collaborated with Broadstreet Health Economics and Outcomes Research on a poster entitled “Leveraging Publicly Available Data to Estimate a Real-Time Reproduction Number (Rt) for Covid-19- A Comparison of Two Methods”.
read moreThe Avalon team employed Mendelian randomization to help Novartis understand the proportion of obesity costs that might be explained by genetic causes.
read moreTobacco product waste (TPW) is one of the most ubiquitous forms of litter, accumulating in large amounts on streets, highways, sidewalks, beaches, parks, and other public places, and flowing into storm water drains, waste treatment plants, and solid waste collection facilities.
read moreIn many ways the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic globally was met with sub-optimal levels of preparedness on the part of health care providers and provider systems, such as integrated delivery networks (IDNs).
read moreThis blog covers the presentation given as part of the ISPOR pre-conference plenary session on HEOR in the era of COVID-19 which was held on 14 May 2020.
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