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Three Ways to Make Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment Work
Successful auto-enrollment likely requires changes to the way we determine eligibility for Medicaid and Marketplace financial assistance, to make the system easier to navigate and more generous, writes USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young.
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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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Network Matching: An Attractive Solution to Surprise Billing
Network matching would be an effective solution to the most common instances of surprise billing and compares favorably to many of the most commonly discussed alternative approaches.
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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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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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Medicare Physician Payment Reform After Two Years: Examining MACRA Implementation and the Road Ahead
Matthew Fiedler spoke at the Senate Finance Committee on May 8 about the implementation of the Medicare physician payment provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
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Examining Surprise Billing: Protecting Patients from Financial Pain
Christen Linke Young delivered testimony to the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions on April 2, 2019.
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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.