Recent Work
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Value-Based Contracting in Healthcare: What Is It and How Can It Be Achieved?
Value-based contracts must incentivize the clinical decision maker, usually the physician, to allocate treatment based on both price and value. Changing certain elements in the financing system could create an environment for successful value-based contracting without having to reform the entire system.
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Schaeffer Center Celebrates Ten Years of Impact
Ten years ago, Leonard Schaeffer shared his vision with USC leadership: he envisioned an academic center that was grounded in the rigorous, evidence-based research of a university, but would move beyond the university to inform health policy.
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CMS Administrator Seema Verma Discusses Prescription for Sustaining US Healthcare System at Schaeffer Initiative Event
CMS Administrator spoke at a USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative event in Washington, D.C., to discuss modernizing Medicare and how to protect patients from overpaying for prescription drugs.
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Prescription Copay Clawbacks, Explained
A short video on prescription drug overpayments (also known as “clawbacks”). Prescription drug overpayments occur when commercially insured patients’ copayments exceed the total cost of the drug to their insurer or pharmacy benefit manager.
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USC Recruits Diverse Participants for Landmark $1.5 Billion Precision Medicine Research Initiative
Nationwide big data project seeks to accelerate research and improve health for a diverse population, not just majority groups.