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Federal Surprise Billing Legislation Does Not Violate the Constitution
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Young breaks down the Constitutional challenges raised against surprise billing legislation and why they are likely to fail.
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Insurance Status Churn and Auto-Enrollment
Sobin Lee and Christen Linke Young of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative estimate how effective prior-month data about the uninsured would be in predicting the number of individuals currently uninsured.
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The Trump Administration’s Final HRA Rule: Similar to the Proposed but Some Notable Choices
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative fellows analyze the Trump Administration’s final rule on allowing employers to pay for their workers’ health insurance through subsidies on the individual market, concluding that it is a step in the wrong direction.
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Comments on the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy provide comments on the Senate HELP committee’s latest bipartisan attempt to lower healthcare costs.
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Comments on the No Surprises Act
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide comments on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recently proposed legislation to address surprise medical billing.
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Breaking Down The Bipartisan Senate Group’s New Proposal To Address Surprise Billing
Like other recent federal bills (and state laws), the bipartisan Senate legislation protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills through a “billing regulation” approach.
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Analyzing the House E&C Committee’s Bipartisan Surprise Out-Of-Network Billing Proposal
The Energy and Commerce draft would eliminate surprise out-of-network billing for both emergency and non-emergency services (with the notable exception of ambulance services) and across different sites of care (e.g., hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), freestanding emergency departments).
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The Relationship Between Network Adequacy and Surprise Billing
As policymakers look to address surprise out-of-network billing, network adequacy regulation is raised as a potential solution. Researchers from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative argue the network adequacy framework is poorly suited to solving this problem.
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Building on the ACA to Achieve Universal Coverage
Initiative researchers propose a blueprint for achieving universal coverage at a manageable fiscal cost and with minimal disruption for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are already insured.
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PODCAST: The Trump Administration’s New Challenge to the Affordable Care Act
Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young provides an overview of the legal challenges the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced since its enactment, recent developments in a lawsuit regarding the ACA’s constitutionality, and what the latest claims could mean for the credibility of the Department of Justice.
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