Recent Work
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Medicare Advanced Imaging Payment: Dysfunctional Policy Making
Medicare’s experience of paying for outpatient imaging services, particularly expensive advanced imaging such as MRIs, CAT scans, and nuclear scans, has been tumultuous over the last 20 years.
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The Use of Vendors in Medicare Part B Drug Payment
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide an analysis of a voluntary vendor approach for Medicare to restrain drug spending for Part B drugs.
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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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Medicare Graduate Medical Education Funding is Not Addressing the Primary Care Shortage: We Need a Radically Different Approach
Schaeffer Initiative experts evaluate the impact of Medicare funding for hospitals, physicians and medical education on specialty selection by new doctors.
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Three Federal Actions That May Address Surprise Bills
Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain the details of each action, and discuss the merits, risks, and limitations of these reforms.
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