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CMS Administrator Seema Verma Discusses Prescription for Sustaining US Healthcare System at Schaeffer Initiative Event
CMS Administrator spoke at a USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative event in Washington, D.C., to discuss modernizing Medicare and how to protect patients from overpaying for prescription drugs.
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Some Blood Pressure Medications May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s, But Not For All Populations
Certain antihypertensive medications (AHTs) may prevent the onset of the disease, but only among black and white women and white men. This has the potential to change prescribing behavior earlier in the lifespan.
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The Bigger Message Behind Amgen’s Decision to Slash Cost of its Repatha Cholesterol Drug
Drug companies look to haggle less and sell more, and that could cost Express Scripts, CVS Health and UnitedHealth writes Goldman in MarketWatch.
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White House Signs Bills Banning Gag Clauses, Schaeffer Center Research Pivotal in Discussion
Schaeffer Center report found 23 percent of private claims analyzed involved a copayment that exceeded the insurer’s cost of the drug.
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Seminar Series: Anup Malani
Anup Malani is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine. His research focuses on law and economics, health economics and developmental economics.Date of event: -
Deaths of Despair: An Update by Professor Sir Angus Deaton
Professor Sir Angus Deaton will provide an update on his groundbreaking research published last year which found that after a century of progress, life expectancy in America is falling, largely driven by “deaths of despair,” deaths of white non-Hispanics in midlife from alcoholic liver disease, suicides, and drug overdoses.Date of event: -
Schaeffer Center Distinguished Lecture: Charles F. Manski
Charles F. Manski, PhD, is a professor in economics at Northwestern University. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and analysis of public policy. Manski will speak on his latest paper, "Reasonable Patient Care Under Uncertainty."Date of event: