Recent Work
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Out-of-Pocket Costs Are Substantially Lower in Medicare Advantage Than Traditional Medicare
Expected monthly out-of-pocket costs for a typical enrollee were about 18-24% lower in Medicare Advantage in recent years, which likely helped fuel the program’s enrollment surge.
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Lessons Learned from a Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack
USC Price School professor – working with two students – identifies ways to improve cybersecurity of the U.S. healthcare system Earlier this year, a little-known but critical component of the U.S. healthcare system ground to a halt after suffering a cyberattack by a shadowy, transnational organized crime organization called ALPHV/Blackcat. The attack on Change Healthcare, which […]
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USC Schaeffer Researcher Named a STAT 2024 Wunderkind
The annual honors for early-career researchers recognized Erin L. Duffy as a leading expert on key healthcare affordability issues.
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Padula to Receive ISPOR Research Methodology Award
William V. Padula has earned the 2024 ISPOR Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology. The prize recognizes his use of machine learning to develop an algorithm for better predicting the risk of hospital-acquired pressure injuries—otherwise known as bedsores. Nearly 60,000 deaths from bedsores occur every year in the U.S. alone, and the condition […]
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Seminar Series – Sarah Schutz
W. David Bradford, Ph.D., is a health economist and the George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia.