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Maryland’s unique payment system has helped bolster healthcare providers in the state. As revenue from elective care dried up, global budgets helped protect facilities by providing a continuous flow of funding.

Congress can help Americans fight COVID-19 by identifying its infected members and helping itself stay on the job. It’s time for a bipartisan leap into the testing pool.

Blood tests that find malignancies before they spread couldtransform our approach to treatment, Goldman wrote in Scientific American.

A new USC Schaeffer Center white paper proposes an innovative strategy — pooled testing — that could lower COVID-19 testing costs for schools and businesses by half or more compared to frequent individual testing.

COVID-19 is a public health crisis and threatens the world with economic disaster. To address how to mitigate the coronavirus’ rising danger to lives and livelihoods, the Schaeffer Center gathered experts to discuss.

COVID-19 makes it clear that many hospitals are not adequately prepared to handle pandemics. Kocher writes that we need to rethink the way we incentivize hospitals to handle pandemic response.

In an op-ed for The New York Times, Fiedler argues Congress must step in and offer quick and generous aid to states before they must slash services and drag down the economy.

Electronic health records — which doctors and hospitals have been collecting for a decade — could powerfully and precisely guide the pandemic response.

One-in-twelve episodes at ambulatory surgery centers had the potential to result in a surprise medical bill, according to the study.

When the risk is extreme, such as it is for global warming or COVID-19, public policies should be based on credible worst-case scenarios. Too much is at stake to act otherwise.