USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
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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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Fixed Indemnity Health Coverage Is a Problematic Form of “Junk Insurance”
Fixed indemnity products are offered in problematic and nontransparent ways in the individual market for health insurance and by employers offering coverage to their workers.
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The Laws Governing COVID-19 Test Payment and How to Improve Them
Schaeffer Initiative experts examine the existing coverage for COVID-19 testing, outline ways to improve access, and propose how to better finance COVID-19 testing in the future.
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Taking a Broader View of “Junk Insurance”
Christen Linke Young explains the dangers of junk insurance.
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Out‐of‐Network Air Ambulance Bills: Prevalence, Magnitude, and Policy Solutions
Out‐of‐network air ambulance bills are a type of surprise medical bill and are driven by many of the same market failures behind other surprise medical bills.
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Making ACA Enrollment More Automatic for the Newly Unemployed
USC-Brooking Schaeffer Initiative researchers lay out strategies to help the newly uninsured transition to Medicaid or the ACA individual market.
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Adapting Medicare Advantage Bidding for COVID-19 Related Uncertainty on Claims: A Proposal
The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally disrupting the health care system and injecting significant uncertainty about current and future utilization and costs.
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Estimating Potential Spending on COVID-19 Care
Schaeffer Initiative researchers quantify the estimated costs of COVID-19 care in the U.S. in a new report.
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Commentary on “Health Spending Under Single-Payer Approaches”
The director of the USC-Brooking Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy explains that cost savings under single payer plans would not be as large as they might seem.
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Study Finds Surprise Medical Bills Springing from Ambulatory Surgery Centers
One-in-twelve episodes at ambulatory surgery centers had the potential to result in a surprise medical bill, according to the study.