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World Class: A Conversation with Author Dr. William A. Haseltine
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host Dr. William A. Haseltine for a discussion on his latest book, “World Class: A Story of Adversity, Transformation, and Success at NYU Langone Health.”
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Will Robots Replace Doctors?
Senior Fellow Bob Kocher paired with Zeke Emanuel examine why artificial intelligence may lead to more evidence-based care, more personalized care, and fewer errors, it has the potential to unintentionally exacerbate many of the worst aspects of our current healthcare system.
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State Approaches to Mitigating Surprise Out-of-Network Billing
Schaeffer Initiative researchers explore why surprise out-of-network billing occurs and how federal and state governments can respond to eliminate these surprise bills and reduce inflated health care costs.
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Improving The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Make It Part Of Value-Based Payment
To make greater strides towards value-based payment models in Medicare, Paul Ginsburg recommends that those who are testing alternative payment models at CMS should work directly with the team managing the existing fee-for-service payment system.
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The Initiative is a partnership between the Center for Health Policy at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, and aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations using the collaborative strengths of USC and Brookings.
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Reducing Unfair Out-of-Network Billing — Integrated Approaches to Protecting Patients
It may be possible to balance the competing goals of consumer protection and market innovation in state and federal oversight of health plan networks, according to a new opinion piece in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Effects of Weakening Safeguards in the Administration’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement Proposal
Researchers from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy discuss the negative effects of allowing firms to subsidize the purchase of individual market coverage and why the associated costs are likely to outweigh the benefits to employers and their workers.
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Evaluating the Administration’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement Proposal
Schaeffer Initiative experts describe the recent proposed rule by HHS that would loosen the rules governing Health Reimbursement Arrangements and its likely effects on insurance markets, employers, workers, and Marketplaces.
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Medicare Graduate Medical Education Funding is Not Addressing the Primary Care Shortage: We Need a Radically Different Approach
Schaeffer Initiative experts evaluate the impact of Medicare funding for hospitals, physicians and medical education on specialty selection by new doctors.
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The Trump Administration Side-Stepped Rulemaking Processes on the ACA’s State Innovation Waivers— And it Could Make Their New Section 1332 Guidance Invalid
Claims that the guidance is procedurally invalid open up potential new avenues for litigation surrounding section 1332 in general and could also become relevant to challenges regarding an approved waiver.
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State Individual Mandates: Hows and Whys
State mandates are a straightforward way to avert the negative consequence of federal mandate repeal at the state level, according to the latest analysis out of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative.