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Schaeffer Center experts Daniella Meeker, Jason Doctor, Joel Hay, Tara Knight and colleagues received the 2019 Behavioral Best Publication Award from the Behavioral Science & Policy Association for their 2016 JAMA study on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

It’s time to bring back the U.S. Federal Office of Technology Assessment with a sharper focus on medical innovation, writes USC Schaeffer Center Director Dana Goldman in The Hill.

USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative fellows analyze the Trump Administration’s final rule on allowing employers to pay for their workers’ health insurance through subsidies on the individual market, concluding that it is a step in the wrong direction.

Schaeffer Center researchers are analyzing trends associated with a greying population, including AD prevalence and cost, and what these trends mean for society.

Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley write that it is time for Medicare to apply the lessons learned by private insurers to incentivize price shopping by patients.

Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy provide comments on the Senate HELP committee’s latest bipartisan attempt to lower healthcare costs.

USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide comments on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recently proposed legislation to address surprise medical billing.

Network matching would be an effective solution to the most common instances of surprise billing and compares favorably to many of the most commonly discussed alternative approaches.

Paul Ginsburg has served on the committee, which is tasked with formulating recommendations to Congress on issues related to access, quality, and cost in Medicare, since 2016.

Like other recent federal bills (and state laws), the bipartisan Senate legislation protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills through a “billing regulation” approach.