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Manufacturer-sponsored coupon use and brand-name drug costs among patients with insurance

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: Among patients with commercial insurance, manufacturer-sponsored coupon use declined substantially between 2017 and 2024, whereas per-claim coupon amounts increased. These patterns may reflect several mechanisms. Manufacturers may be concentrating coupon programs on fewer products or for fewer patients while offering larger incentives in response to formulary pressures or expanded copay accumulator programs. Greater coupon amounts may also reflect higher underlying patient cost-sharing requirements.

Journal: JAMA

Out-of-pocket spending for insulin by Medicare beneficiaries after monthly caps

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this cohort study, a $35 monthly insulin out-of-pocket cap was found to be associated with significantly lower insulin out-of-pocket spending, increased access to insulin, and decreased blood glucose levels among Medicare beneficiaries with type 2 diabetes. These findings suggest federal cost-sharing policies could improve access and adherence to essential medications in diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Journal: JAMA Internal Medicine

Modest employment gains for people with disabilities in March

Kessler Foundation
Reports and Proceedings

The April 2026 National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report shows modest gains in the employment of working-aged people with disabilities on pace with the modest gains in the overall labor market.

Funder: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Kessler Foundation

Sugary drink taxes may not be effective in fast-food settings

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Taxes on sugary drinks had no effect on beverage calorie purchases from fast-food chain restaurants in the U.S., according to a new study by Brian Elbel and Pasquale Rummo from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and colleagues publishing April 2^nd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

Journal: PLOS Medicine

Reduce infrastructure costs of EV adoption by upgrading grid first, then adding V2G chargers

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Vehicle-to-grid chargers, which enable grid operators to use plugged-in electric vehicles as a battery network, could help utilities distribute electricity more efficiently. But even with advanced chargers, existing infrastructure cannot supply enough electricity to growing numbers of EVs, computer models from an international team of researchers suggest.

Journal: Joule

Medicare spending implications for semaglutide under voluntary price agreements

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: This analysis suggests that the lower semaglutide price of $245 per month established under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center demonstration project—the Better Approaches to Lifestyle and Nutrition for Comprehensive Health (BALANCE) model could generate savings that would offset the cost of treating an additional 550,000 to 3.6 million Medicare beneficiaries eligible for expanded obesity-indication coverage, depending on assumptions about baseline use and further price reductions.

Journal: JAMA

Modeling the evolution dynamics to enhance micro-expression recognition

Higher Education Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Facial expressions serve as a crucial medium for human emotional communication. Based on duration and intensity, expressions can be categorized into macro-expressions and micro-expressions. Characterized by their involuntary and fleeting nature (lasting less than 0.5 seconds), micro-expressions (MEs) hold significant value in fields such as business negotiations, criminal investigations, and clinical diagnosis due to their uncontrollable properties.

Journal: Frontiers of Computer Science

Do TV ads work? Ask smart TVs

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In new research, Rex Du, professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business, devises a more exact way to measure the causal impact of TV ad exposures on consumer purchases.

Journal: Marketing Science

Accelerator programs have more work to do when it comes to supporting women entrepreneurs, research finds

University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Accelerator programs are supposed to give entrepreneurs the mentorship, training and skills boost that will help launch them towards success.

But in countries where the gender playing field still steeply tilts toward male advantage, women-led businesses that participated in accelerators showed no financial improvement, or even did worse, compared to ventures that applied but weren't accepted.

Journal: Strategic Management Journal
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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