Ambar La Forgia @ambarlaforgia Twitter profile

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

1 year

I was so nervous to teach MBA students for the first time, but it ended up being an incredible experience. I am so honored to be one of the recipients of the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching 🥰 Also congrats to @abhishekn for winning and thanks for the pic! @BerkeleyHaas

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

I am so excited to share that I’ll be joining @BerkeleyHaas as an asst prof of Management of Organizations (🙌 @abhishekn @tobystuart @mathijsdevaan & others!). I am so thankful for my time at @columbiahpm and will miss my NYC community (🥰 @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens )

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 months

Excited and a bit nervous to present at my first ever #NBERSI ! Tune in on Wednesday at 3pm to learn what @julia_bodner and I find when fertility clinics are acquired by chain organizations.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

🚨 Not-so-new paper alert 🚨 A labor of love: After starting this in 2014, my JMP, “The Impact of Management on Clinical Performance: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies,” is published in #ManagementScience ! #EconTwitter 🧵 1/12

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

Very excited to share this paper (w/ @amy_m_bond @RTylerBraun & others) many years in the making!! My first attempt at a 🧵below

Physician Management Companies and Commercial Health Care Prices Paid to Anesthesia Practitioners

This cohort study assesses changes in prices paid to practitioners (anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists) before and after an outpatient facility contracted with a physician...

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 months

Are you interested in chain organizations, acquisitions, knowledge transfer, private equity, or IVF/fertility? Then check out the updated version of my paper joint w/ @julia_bodner TLDR: Chains increase IVF volume and live birth rates! Thread below.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

I’m honored to be featured 🥰

American Society of Hispanic Economists

@ASHE_ASSA

2 years

Today we feature @ambarlaforgia , Assistant Professor @BerkeleyHaas . Her research studies the relationship between organizational and managerial strategies and performance outcomes in the health care sector. You can learn more about her research at

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 We find that for states that passed comprehensive surprise billing legislation prices paid to in-network and OON anesthesiologists decreased

JAMA Internal Medicine

@JAMAInternalMed

3 years

In CA, FL, and NY, prices paid to anesthesiologists in hospital outpatient departments and ASCs decreased after the introduction of surprise billing legislation, providing early insights into how prices may change under the federal No Surprises Act

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

Hi Twitter friends! I’m looking for opportunities to present a project on how affiliating with an organizational network impacts performance (joint w/ @julia_bodner ). We use data on US fertility clinics and get pretty stunning results. If this seems of interest, let me know!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 months

Thanks for the cool video @BerkeleyHaas !! I’m gearing up to teach Leading People for the third time in just a few weeks and looking forward to meeting the next cohort of Blue and Gold!

Haas School of Business

@BerkeleyHaas

3 months

Step into asst. professor @ambarlaforgia 's office to learn more about her class, research, and why she loves teaching at Haas, in this new video series. #berkeleyhaas #officehours #ucberkeley Full episode:

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 months

For those attending @ashecon come watch @asacarny present our newly released NBER working paper at 1:45pm today (Monday)!

Haas School of Business

@BerkeleyHaas

4 months

New @nberpubs paper by @ambarlaforgia @asacarny & Atul Gupta shows how hospitals gamed a #Medicare loophole to reap billions. For-profits funneled much of the windfall to payouts for execs and shareholders.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 years

Thank you @ACHEConnect and @AOM_HCM for this honor (and snazzy certificate!). Now it’s time for me to prep for the virtual presentation tomorrow 🤓

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 months

Thank you @raffasadun and @andreapratnyc for the opportunity to present! (And @lugaricano and @wdessein for being my NFP and FP managers 🤣). And thank you @AnneFitz13 for this pic!! Those interested in the paper - the presentation starts at ~52min

Dr Anne Fitzpatrick

@AnneFitz13

6 months

Another great paper being presented by @ambarlaforgia on gaming Medicare contracts

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

True story: at the end of my advanced econometrics seminar with Prof Jefferson I made him a book of all our final papers titled “Too Logit to Quit” 🤣 anyways, this is awesome news!!

swarthmoreecon

@swarthmoreecon

3 years

Congrats to our @swarthmoreecon friend and colleague Philip Jefferson on this great honor! Seems like being chair of Swarthmore's economics department is a good omen for the future 😉

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 months

Congrats @solenedelecourt !! You are the GOAT of Negotiations 🙌🙌🙌

Solene Delecourt

@solenedelecourt

5 months

I won the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching @BerkeleyHaas ! There is no such thing as humble bragging, so here is some plain bragging. A big thanks to my students for nominating me ❤️

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

So proud!!! Also very glad Adam enjoys taking care of all of our personal finance and insurance decisions :)

TIAA Institute

@TIAAInstitute

2 years

Congratulations to Adam Leive of @UCBerkeley and @GoldmanSchool on winning the #SamuelsonAward for his paper, “Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts.” #SamuelsonAward #HealthSavings #RetirementSavings

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

10 months

Wow!! So cool to see our work having an impact 🙌

Yashaswini Singh, PhD

@ysingh_phd

10 months

Thanks to @CM_Whaley for noticing that the class action complaint against PE-backed USAP cites my PE research (and @ambarlaforgia 's excellent paper in @JAMAInternalMed !)

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

Now I just have to schlep my household including this horse from the East Coast to the East Bay – any cross-country driving tips welcome!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

1 year

Thank you @WiEMecon for the opportunity to get to present on a topic that is particularly relevant to many TT female profs and their partners! Paper draft here, thoughts welcome -

Becker Friedman Institute for Economics

@BeckerFriedman

1 year

Track A continues with @ambarlaforgia ( @BerkeleyHaas ) presenting work with @julia_bodner showing that chain-acquired fertility clinics increase IVF volume and live birth rates. Effects likely driven by resource and knowledge transfers. Carola Frydman ( @KelloggSchool ) to discuss.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 months

🎯 on one of our key takeaways! Thanks Ashvin 🙌

Ashvin Gandhi

@ashdgandhi

4 months

Awesome paper! I love that they show that *how* a provider receives funds affects how those funds are used (i.e., funds aren't treated as fully fungible). This has profound implications for how we should think the relationship between healthcare provider finance and quality.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

10 months

Thanks @paul_gertler for the kind words and @MOPS_research @I_Am_NickBloom @johnvanreenen @raffasadun for the amazing conference and opportunity to present!

Paul Gertler

@paul_gertler

10 months

Great paper by colleague @ambarlaforgia and friends. Worth a look

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

😊😊😊 happy news on a gloomy Monday!

SUMR Program

@LDISUMR

6 years

SUMR Alum @ambarlaforgia was awarded an AHRQ Grant for Health Services Research Dissertation Program titled "Physician Consolidation and Incentives in Childbirth" Congrats Ambar!!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

We only max out HSAs in this household 💪🏼 check out this paper - it may prompt you to login to your benefits manager and make some changes!

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

4 years

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts" by Adam Leive.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

8 months

Amazing and important work by my colleagues @DzGuilbeault @solenedelecourt !!! The data collection effort behind this paper is insane 🤯

Douglas Guilbeault

@DzGuilbeault

8 months

🚨📢 I’m delighted and proud to share our new @Nature paper “Online Images Amplify Gender Bias” What better day than Valentine’s Day to learn about gender stereotypes?🩷A thread 🧵

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 months

Awesome paper awesome person 🙌

Maggie Shi

@maggieshi311

6 months

Thrilled to see this out in the next issue of the @QJEHarvard !

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 months

This is so well deserved!!! Adam you are such an amazing researcher, coauthor and friend ❤️

Adam Sacarny

@asacarny

3 months

I'm excited to say this is my first week as an Associate Professor with tenure! Many thanks to my friends, family, collaborators (esp. brilliant students, RAs & TAs), and mentors who made this possible. And I'm so grateful to my dept & colleagues @ColumbiaHPM for their support.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 months

Great summary of our research and certainly highlights how history seems to repeats itself with firms/individuals gaming govt programs for billions of dollars…. Which is ultimately borne by the taxpayer

Atul Gupta

@gupta_atulk

2 months

Thanks to LDI for the opportunity to discuss work with @asacarny and @ambarlaforgia on the outlier payments scandal and its policy relevance today! Feels like there is a new scandal in some government program every week. This paper documents how firms used the windfall!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

Having such a blast meeting all these amazing scholars at the @tenureproject conference!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

What amazing company to be in!! 🙌 Grateful for the @WeillCornell team @amy_m_bond @RTylerBraun and support from @Arnold_Ventures @commonwealthfnd @PhysiciansFound

NIHCM

@NIHCMfoundation

2 years

Announcing the finalists for the 2023 NIHCM Awards in Journalism & Research! #NIHCMAwardsJournalism #NIHCMAwardsResearch @BuzzFeedNews @WSJ @statnews @nytimes @upshotNYT @Reuters @propublica @washingtonpost @KHNews @usatoday @WBJonline @medpagetoday @NPR

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

Excited to see this out! Part of a 3-year effort with the amazing Weill Cornell team 🙌 Focusing on NICUs, we find evidence that PMCs significantly increase prices and spending without any changes to LOS or adverse clinical outcomes.

Robert Tyler Braun

@RTylerBraun

2 years

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT: Our new study on Physician Management Companies (PMCs) and their impact on neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) was published in @AmerAcadPeds

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

Hello #AOM2021 ! Are you interested in health care and strategy? Well then, tune in on Aug 1 @ 3pm for our symposium "Health Care Meets Strategy: Examining Reconfiguration and Innovation in the Health Care Sector"

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

This will be quite a change for me both personally and professionally, and I want to esp thank @ashleyterese , Ingrid Nembhard, Tom D'Aunno, @matthewneidell , and Bhaven Sampat for their mentorship and support

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

@Soleil_Shah @NEJM @efusebrown @StanfordHP @Hayrook @StanfordMed Great insights! While I'm looking at Ob-Gyns and not PCPs, I find evidence of some of the pros and cons discussed - VBP can motivate corporate owners to invest in quality improvement but overemphasis on financial management can lead to suboptimal care:

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

1 year

Thanks for the invite last year!! The feedback from the seminar was super useful 🙌🙌

Matthew Leisten

@LeistenEcon

1 year

@ambarlaforgia presented work showing productivity improvements at IVF clinics after acquisition by large chains. These results do not appear to be driven by selection of patients, but rather better knowledge transmission.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 years

Thank you for gracing us with your presence and ACO knowledge 😊

Valerie A. Lewis, PhD

@valeriealewis

5 years

Tried out taking a @haroldpollack -style selfie today (despite my very poor selfie skills) with this stellar crew of bright and fun heath policy researchers! @asacarny @ambarlaforgia @juliuslchen

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

7 months

Really cool new paper!!!

Ashvin Gandhi

@ashdgandhi

7 months

🚨New @nberpubs with @andrewolenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it! 🧵1/17 Paper:

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

7 months

@vini_singh_ @solenedelecourt Haha yass go team 🥰❤️

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 months

1) First: Check out the just released Tradeoffs podcast discussing the role of PE in healthcare, w/ great interviews from @gupta_atulk , @ysingh_hopkins @rm_werner . It compares our paper’s finding to other research on the corporatization of medicine:

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

@thedavidpowell Oofff I feel seen. My contribution (Red era): All my life I’ve wanted funny and smart, but I can’t let you monopolize my heart

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@ambarlaforgia

2 months

@ashdgandhi will also receive an award for watching this presentation for the 4th time 🤣

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

RQ: This paper studies how a change in firm management impacts firm performance using data on medical practice acquisitions – much inspiration from @raffasadun @I_Am_NickBloom @johnvanreenen @PaulEliason2 @ryanmcdevitt & so many others! 2/12

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

Excited to attend my first AOM conference! (and to get to hang out with @benjaminhyman of course)

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

Got some great feedback on my JMP from a diverse set of @AOM_HCM faculty - now trying to squeeze in a few hours today to incorporate it all! #AOM2018

Brian Hilligoss

@brianhilligoss

6 years

#AOM2018 Research incubator PDW: love the way this @AOM_HCM community embraces and fosters its members and community! @AOMConnect

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

7 months

@leightjessica @elisaxchen I’ve learned so much about fertility and IVF through my research on IVF clinics! Posting here for those interested and always happy to chat.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

From a policy perspective, more efforts are needed to increase transparency in corporate ownership in health care for research purposes and for patients. States should also consider strengthening/enforcing corporate practice of medicine laws.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

The ongoing corporatization of medicine impacts many stakeholders. Higher prices are likely passed on to patients in the form of higher premiums and cost-sharing. While PMCs appear to command higher prices, it is unclear whether this revenue is shared with clinicians.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 years

@asacarny Welcome to the dark side

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

I am so immensely grateful to all the people who supported me and this paper from its conception at Wharton, its gestation at Columbia HPM, and its birth at Berkeley Haas :)

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 months

@solenedelecourt @BerkeleyHaas ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ love this video and the yellow suit!! Your class sounds so fun!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

@michalhorny bunionectomies? I've been postponing mine for 4+ years...

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

We found that allowed amounts (price paid by insurer + patient cost share) increased by 16.5% post-PMC contract, and unit prices (allowed amounts standardized by procedure complexity and duration) increased by 18.7% post-PMC contract.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 months

Summary: We use a staggered DiD design to compare fertility clinics that become acquired by fertility chains to those that do not (we use OG TWFE and show robustness to alternative estimators). We find that IVF cycles increase by 27.2%, and live birth rates increase by 13.6%.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 years

@valeriealewis @asacarny @jamie_daw @juliuslchen I don’t recognize this version of me haha open mouth laughter?! Simpler times.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

7 months

Really cool (yet maddening) new WP by my colleague @paul_gertler ! Less altruistic physicians essentially commit medical fraud by misrepresenting test results to increase their profits. 💵 💊

NBER

@nberpubs

8 months

Profit-motivated medical providers report more false positive malaria tests and sell substantially more unnecessary drugs than altruistic providers, from @paul_gertler and Ada Kwan

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

After watching @CrazyRichMovie I realized I had never seen a woman portray an economics professor on tv or in a movie. Of course, the first article that came up when I googled this was questioning whether she was even a good economist... #womenineconomics

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

Yasssssss!!! So well deserved Anne!!

Anne Meng

@annemeng_

2 years

Whee!!🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️Just found out that I have been officially awarded TENURE!! 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️ 1/

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@ambarlaforgia

1 year

@SchutzEcon @abhishekn @BerkeleyHaas #barbiecore :)

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 years

@dsebastiantello @DavidSlusky @JCMecon @agriffithecon @tamcfall @Do_WellHarmon @mr_sievey @RobbieK22 @landhoee @ref0rmedl0cal @thatssoCharless @exotic_loli @bowlofrahman @DawnElastico @BIkMamba @wolfatdawn @yungdieu @__Andr3___ @mvrceiito @freshIettuce @blkgrI @ariana_monets @oaklandvirgo @worshipmaree1 @cokedaya @dayadances @dvminique @kikidoesntlove @whorefordrake @four30two @FactsOnlyJas @beeeaanz @JaylaReneexx @vaysinterlude_ @ririrightnextto @muadiddy @ballerinablkout @killawatttt @kierrazhanee @thatbihberta @xo_lanyy @iamkayaaaaa @DESINTRLUDE @intheIandofoz @zenslaya @kyoag @EmilyCLawler @UofLEcon @CarycruzBueno @kyoag we demand justice for Breonna Taylor, who was murdered in her home by the police. I am tagging 5 friends who I hope will do the same.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

4 years

@asacarny 😭😭 I’m sorry I got your hopes up! RIP little plant

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 years

#DAWghouse #Athens2020 #1201ft

Jamie Daw

@jamie_daw

5 years

@ColumbiaMSPH HPM junior faculty do the Catskills! So grateful for this crew ❤️

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

@Div_E_Q @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @MathijsdeVaan @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens @swarthmoreecon Thank you Amanda! And for teaching me micro (plus @Ellen_Magenheim !)

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

These results are consistent with prior work by @zackcooperyale & @ProfFionasm on physician staffing firms & ED prices; and research by @Joe_Bruch Zirui Song @suhas_gondi on PE in hospitals and my co-authors @RTylerBraun @amy_m_bond & others on PE in dermatology

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

You are an amazing human and scholar! Best of luck Steve 💪🏼🙌

Steve Schwab

@sdschwab

2 years

Excited and a little scared to announce that I am retiring from the Army next summer and am on the academic job market. If you are looking for an organizational/health economist please keep me in mind! #EconTwitter

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 months

4) Ask questions about the IVF laboratory the clinic uses and if there are best practices they adhere to. Ultimately, this is a highly personal choice, and a chain clinic may or may not be the best option for you.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

In subsample analyses, we found that PMCs backed by PE had price increases of over 26% while those without PE funding saw increases of 12.9%. Potential reasons include greater market power and stronger incentives to create short-term returns.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 months

@dsebastiantello Team Sebas from day one!!! Can’t wait to see what this new chapter of #professorlife has in store ❤️

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

@SarahCohodes @Econ_Sandy @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @MathijsdeVaan @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens @swarthmoreecon !!! No way. Always makes me happy to know a fellow Swattie in academia

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

7 months

@leightjessica @elisaxchen Bc egg freezing was experimental until 2012, we haven’t had good data until recently. Cryopreservation methods have also improved considerably. A study out of NYU lagone found that women who froze 20+ eggs under the age of 38 had 70% prob of a live birth.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

1 year

@GaborBekes @abhishekn @BerkeleyHaas Thank you!!

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

5 years

So nice to meet you Jing and learn about this project!!

Jing Li 李婧

@JingLiUW

5 years

Had the pleasure to present to a wonderful crowd @ColumbiaMSPH Health Policy & Management on new work funded by AHRQ. Thanks very much to @juliuslchen for hosting, and to @asacarny @ambarlaforgia @PeterMuennig @scalonico for a lovely lunch and thoughtful conversations.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

6 years

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a decade since I was a @LDISUMR scholar. Shout out to @A_Schwa for encouraging me to apply. Curious to know how many scholars went on to get PhDs?

Penn

@Penn

6 years

Summer Undergraduate Minority Research scholars toured @morrisarboretum 92 acres in Philly’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood with Victorian gardens, ornate water features, and thousands of botanical specimens from around the world.

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

3 years

@stephencoussens @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @MathijsdeVaan @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw #athens2020 forever

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Ambar La Forgia

@ambarlaforgia

2 years

More great investigative journalism by @sjtribble on how PE ownership of rural hospitals impacts both patients and clinicians!

Sarah Jane Tribble

@sjtribble

2 years

1/2 Can a bad hospital be better than no hospital? (H/T @ambarlaforgia wisdom here) My latest in @KHNews ' investigation of two rural hospitals & their ownserhip shows how tricky it can be for state/federal regulators to answer this ?.

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Ambar La Forgia

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@vini_singh_ @solenedelecourt lol I guess this is our hard launch

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Another channel could be the types of clinics being acquired. While acquisitions are non-random, we show robustness to matching clinics on different pre-acquisition observables to make more apples-to-apples comparisons.

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@leightjessica @elisaxchen Age at time of freezing and volume of eggs are the biggest predictors of success. Your probability is even higher if you freeze embryos, which many partnered women consider to delay for a few years while focusing on TT or until they are ready. But still, no guarantees!

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@GaiShelby @tenureproject @Ivuoma @IshvaMinefeeJr Awww will do! ❤️ safe travels Shelby!

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@pkmandic @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @MathijsdeVaan @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens Thank you Pinar!!! I’ll keep you posted - but may be a stop on the drive out west🙌

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Couldn’t be happier to support the Sadie Collective!!

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The Sadie Collective relies on generous support from those in economics and related fields. Today we are launching our website and introducing our new team members. Please show your support and solidarity for Black lives and our voices by donating here:

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@asacarny 🌴 🥥 💚

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Featuring research by @julia_bodner @navidas @jdchown @MathijsdeVaan @cunningham_lbs and co-authors, and discussants Tom D'Aunno and Will Mitchell!

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@MathijsdeVaan @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens Thank you Mathijs! I can't believe the move is just a few months away!

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@Sakiera_Hudson Omg I was obsessed with Neopets! Tbh it’s probs what got me into math and coding

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@annemeng_ @BerkeleyHaas @abhishekn @tobystuart @MathijsdeVaan @columbiahpm @asacarny @jamie_daw @stephencoussens @anthlittle Thanks Anne! Plus for your love and support! 😘

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3) Use FertilityIQ to read verified patient reviews of the clinics and specific doctors. IVF is a financially, physically, and emotionally exhausting experience, and you want to feel comfortable with your provider.

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@ysingh_hopkins @Joe_Bruch @janemzhu @healthecon_dan Congrats!!! Great paper

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Until quite recently, there was limited insurance coverage, and patients paid mostly out-of-pocket. Patients can also easily access online report cards to look at clinic outcomes. Therefore, there may be more alignment between patient interests and corporate interests.

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@Samantha_Burn yes that would be amazing! In our setting, CMS had been warned about the loophole a decade before in public comments. The loophole could also have been prevented by a clawback system to monitor under/over payment (which was later introduced).

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We also find chains improve clinical practices to achieve IVF gold standard: they reduce multiple birth rates (twins and above) and increase singleton birth rates, which reduce risk to mothers and infants. They also achieve higher birth rates among older patients!

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@Sakiera_Hudson @abhishekn @BerkeleyHaas Thanks for all the support Kiera!! ❤️

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@joanacasey @uwsph Amazing news!!!! Congrats Joan!!

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Physician management companies (PMCs) are increasingly owning and managing the practices of clinicians, particularly in hospital-based specialties such as anesthesiology. By consolidating practices, PMCs may leverage their size and expertise to negotiate higher-paying contracts.

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We are grateful to numerous seminar participants, our referees, and editors at Management Science (the paper has been conditionally accepted!) for their valuable feedback.

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Key result: Using DID, the PPMC that focuses on clinical management significantly reduces C-sections for low-risk births (22% decrease), whereas the opposite result occurs in the PPMCs that focus on financial management (10-11% increase). 9/12

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This study focused on prices, but PMCs argue that they can improve managerial and operational efficiency, so more research is needed on their influence on outcomes such as volume and quality of care.

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But it’s not just price and quality transparency. Fertility markets are more competitive than other areas of healthcare, like hospital and dialysis markets. Fertility patients are also much more homogenous, which could make them a setting more amenable to standardization.

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@julia_bodner @tradeoffspod Loved working with you on this paper Julia!! Thank you for being such a fabulous co-author and friend ❤️

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