Recent Work
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Joint Recommendations of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and AEI Scholars to Reduce Healthcare Costs
The experts recommendations to the Senate committee aimed at four main goals: improving incentives in private insurance, removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition, improving incentives in the Medicare program, and promoting competition in the pharmaceutical market.
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The Case for Reforming Competitive Bidding in Medicare Advantage
Schaeffer Initiative experts propose reforming the way that fixed monthly payments to MA plans are determined, replacing the current, overly complex structure with one that would enhance competition, simplify beneficiary choice through standardization, and save an estimated $10 billion annually.
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A Proposal to Enhance Competition and Reform Bidding in the Medicare Advantage Program
Schaeffer Initiative researchers propose two key changes to the MA bidding process to lower prices and enhance choice for consumers.
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Medicare Advantage: Better Information Tools, Better Beneficiary Choices, Better Competition
Since the 1970s, and codified in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, Medicare beneficiaries have had the choice of receiving their Medicare benefits through private health plans instead of the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program administered by the federal government. The policy thrust of private plan participation in Medicare is that competition […]
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