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Healthcare Price Regulation and Public Options: Assessing Approaches to Increasing the Public Role
Part 2 of a panel series on healthcare price regulation honoring Uwe E. Reinhardt (1937-2017)
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Sharing Drug Rebates With Medicare Part D Patients: Why And How
The percentage of total Medicare Part D drug spending offset by rebates on branded drugs increased from 11% in 2010 to 25% in 2018.
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AJMC: Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums
This study, published in the American Journal of Managed Care, finds policies to address surprise billing could reduce health insurance premiums by 1% to 5%. A press release about the study is available here. We leveraged 2017 commercial claims data from the Health Care Cost Institute, comprising 568.5 million claims from 44.8 million covered lives […]
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How Surprise Billing Increases Premiums—and How New Policies Could Help Consumers
A USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy research team finds that policies to limit surprise billing could also reduce insurance premiums for Americans by billions each year.
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The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy is a partnership between Economic Studies 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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After Decades of Disappointment, a Turning Point Is Visible in Alzheimer’s Treatment
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy hosted a webinar featuring national thought leaders to examine hopeful signs in clinical development and policy that will ensure access to treatments and diagnostics.
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The Future of Value-Based Payment
Join Schaeffer Center Associate Director Erin Trish in conversation with Elizabeth Fowler, Executive Vice President for Programs at The Commonwealth Fund, and Schaeffer Initiative Director Paul Ginsburg for a discussion of the future of value-based payment in the U.S.
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Georgia’s Latest 1332 Proposal Continues To Violate the ACA
Scholars from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy Georgia’s latest 1332 Proposal, analyzing its major analytical errors and procedural deficiencies that render it unapprovable.
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Are U.S. Health Care Prices Too High, Too Low, or Some Mix of the Two?
Part 1 of a panel series on health care price regulation honoring Uwe E. Reinhardt (1937-2017)
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How To Boost Health Insurance Enrollment: Three Practical Steps That Merit Bipartisan Support
The authors explain how gaps in eligibility for federal assistance programs, perceptions of affordability, and administrative complexity create barriers that prevent millions of Americans from obtaining affordable coverage.
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Innovation in Alzheimer’s Disease: Policies to Support Access to Treatments, Diagnostics, and Prevention
Join the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy for a webinar that looks at hopeful signs in clinical development and the policy challenges on how to make available Alzheimer’s disease treatments and diagnostics to all those who should have them.
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