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CMS’s International Pricing Model for Medicare Part B Drugs: Implementation Issues
To lower the Part B portion of drug spending, the Trump Administration has proposed a demonstration project tying Medicare reimbursement for outpatient, physician-administered drugs to international prices. Paul Ginsburg and Steven Lieberman explore the potential consequences of such a rule.
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We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
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Federal Surprise Billing Legislation Does Not Violate the Constitution
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Young breaks down the Constitutional challenges raised against surprise billing legislation and why they are likely to fail.
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Book Review: Immunotherapy’s Promise
Jakub Hlávka reviews a new book on the future of cancer treatments that he writes “[offers] a hopeful account of medical research that could, one day, save even more lives.”
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Do Lower Readmissions at Penalized Hospitals Signify an Effective Policy or Simply a Statistical Anomaly?
A new analysis finds at least three quarters of the improvement in readmission rates by hospitals who had poor baseline performance was due to regression to the mean (i.e. statistical luck) rather than the policy.
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Wins Top Student Award of the American Society of Health Economists
Eunhae Shin, 2019 USC doctoral degree graduate and USC Schaeffer Center pre-doctoral fellow, received the 2019 Student Paper Award from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC on June 24.
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Untangling Differences in Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage Versus Traditional Medicare Programs
Neeraj Sood and a colleague discuss measuring and interpreting differences in quality of care for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries compared to those enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
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Insurance Status Churn and Auto-Enrollment
Sobin Lee and Christen Linke Young of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative estimate how effective prior-month data about the uninsured would be in predicting the number of individuals currently uninsured.
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Schaeffer Center Antibiotic Prescribing Study Awarded 2019 BSPA Behavioral Publication Award
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.
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Here’s How We Can Control Drug Costs While Spurring Innovation
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.
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