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How Long Should Kids Isolate After They’ve Contracted COVID-19?
Children infected with the Omicron variant remained infectious for a median time of three days after testing positive for the virus, according to USC Schaeffer Center and Stanford researchers.
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How the Secrecy of Middlemen Inflates Drug Prices
Drug costs can be driven down if market forces are allowed to target those profits, but first everyone needs to know what is being charged, and by whom to whom.
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Congress Wants a Better Value. So Why Are They Eliminating Performance Based Payment?
Doctors, pharmacists, and even drug company sales reps are all paid based on performance because it incentivizes desired outcomes.
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Applying for the 2024-2025 CeASES-ADRD Pilot Award
Applications are now closed.
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Government And Commercial Insurer Payment Rates to Hospitals: A Commentary on Priselac
Paul Ginsburg discusses how for decades, stakeholders have argued about whether competition or regulation should be the approach to constrain health care spending. By having chosen neither, he argues, our nation now finds itself with a much larger challenge. The magnitude of our health care affordability problem cries out for pursuing both competition and regulation.
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We Can Find Cancers with a Simple Blood Test
As a cancer researcher and a health economist, we’ve seen up close through our lab and consulting work the revolution contained in a blood draw. But cancer detection blood tests aren’t built into annual physicals like standard blood tests, and so far they aren’t covered by insurance.
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Podcast: Jack Chapel on Health Trends in a Shrinking Middle Class
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jack Chapel, a PhD candidate in economics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, about a new study examining the worsening health and economic trends for Americans with modest resources nearing retirement.
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USC’s Minority Aging Research Center Secures $3.6M for Alzheimer’s Research
Researchers study the health and economics issues associated with cognitive decline and dementia, and particularly the inequitable burden of Alzheimer’s.
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Responses to Request for Information Regarding Medical Payment Products
Schaeffer experts submitted a comment letter responding to a recent request for information (RFI) regarding medical payment products.
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Study of “Revolving Door” in Washington Shows One-Third of HHS Appointees Leave for Industry Jobs
A new study from the USC Schaeffer Center and Harvard University is the first to examine the “revolving door” in health care.
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