This research summary is written by John E. Schneider, PhD & Cara M. Scheibling A two-decade drumbeat of bold, future-focused and entirely bi-partisan changes in U.S. state laws has ushered in the modern practice of optometry. The result has been a dramatic expansion of the profession’s independent physician role in health care coupled with…
read moreAvalon Health Economics will be at ISPOR New Orleans, May 18 through May 22. We will be engaged in our usual array of posters, podium presentations, and short courses. If you are planning on attending, please let us know if you want to meet with any of our team!
read moreAvalon Health Economics is happy to announce an exciting new collaboration with the London-based Acaster-Lloyd Consulting, Ltd. Acaster-Lloyd, led by Sarah Acaster and Andrew Lloyd, is a leader in the area of clinical outcomes assessment (COA), including patient-reported outcomes, health-state utilities, strategy & analysis, preference surveys, instrument development, and qualitative research. The collaboration helps AHE…
read moreAvalon Health Economics will be at ISPOR Barcelona, Nov. 10 through Nov. 14. We will be engaged in our usual array of posters, podium presentations, and short courses. If you are planning on attending, please let us know if you want to meet with any of our team!
read moreAvalon will be attending AdvaMed in Philadelphia this September 24th-26th. To schedule meetings with the Avalon team, contact Nicole Nelson at nicole.nelson@avalonecon.com.
read moreAHE Presents: Symposium on Emerging Trends in U.S. Health Economic Evaluation: A Closer Look at the Role of Cost Effectiveness in U.S. Market Access, Tuesday May 9th in Morristown, NJ
read moreCEO John Schneider will be speaking at Research! America’s Medical Innovation 101 February briefing on Capitol Hill with Dr. Keith R. Yamamoto, Director of Precision Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Joe V. Selby, Executive Director at PCORI, and others.
read moreJohn Schneider & Andrew Briggs will be teaching the Economics of Diagnostics Introduction Course on Sunday afternoon (1:00pm-5:00pm). Come say hi or sign up for the course! Let us know if you would like to schedule a time to meet in Vienna.
read moreOur research found that for doctors of optometry and dentists in both states, even after the enactment of laws barring NCS mandates, the vast majority of providers continued to offer normal discounts and receive payments from patients that were below their charged amounts. Thus, the laws had no effect on the providers—they continued billing their…
read moreAvalon CEO John Schneider, Ph.D. presented at BMO Capital Markets’ “The Year Ahead in Healthcare: Products, Payment and Politics” on December 15, 2015. The day-long symposium was focused on markets for life science products and featured presentations from industry leaders, including Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Abbott and Pfizer. Schneider delivered a lunchtime presentation on the medical…
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