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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 78
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it means for policymakers.
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Health Care in President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget
Our Schaeffer Initiative experts evaluate the president’s budget in a piece in JAMA Health Forum. The budget includes Medicare provider and drug payment reforms, as well as some policies that will impact the Affordable Care Act.
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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 76
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it means for policymakers.
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Remanding Texas v. U.S. to the Lower Court Prolongs Harms to Consumers and the Health Care Industry
How will remanding Texas v. U.S. case to the lower court will affect the health care market? Drug manufacturers face tremendous scientific uncertainty while ACA funding has clearly become a major component in state spending.
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On this blog, experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy advance the national health policy conversation through innovative ideas and timely, evidence-based analysis. These posts offer policymakers practical recommendations and analysis for solving the health care issues of today.
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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 75
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it means for policymakers.
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The Essential Scan: Top Findings in Health Policy Research | Edition 74
What’s the latest in health policy research? The Essential Scan, produced by the Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, aims to help keep you informed on the latest research and what it means for policymakers.
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Provider Charges Relative to Medicare Rates, 2012-2017
Researchers examined data on charges for providers treating Medicare patients and compared them to Medicare’s set payment rate across specialties. They found specialties possessing the ability to surprise bill out-of-network patients higher charges relative to Medicare rates than other specialties.
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PODCAST: The Biggest Health Care Issues of the 2020 Election
In this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, health policy experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative discuss the presidential candidates’ health proposals, and also look at what to do about surprise medical billing.
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Experience with New York’s Arbitration Process for Surprise Out-of-Network Bills
Using data from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), USC-Brooking Schaeffer Initiative Associate Director Loren Adler found that the state’s arbitration process is substantially increasing what New Yorkers pay for health care.