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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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Economic Aspects of the Opioid Crisis
Sir Angus Deaton testified on the decline in life expectancy in the United States and the role opioids have played in this startling trend.
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Comments on CMS’s proposed rule for implementation of MACRA provisions
The Center for Health Policy at Brookings, with support from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, a partnership between Brookings and the University of Southern California, submitted comments on a proposed rule to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Incentive under […]
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Fostering Competition in Consolidated Markets
Paul Ginsburg testified before the California Senate Committee on Health, focusing on implications and complexities of provider competition.
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY
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Examining Consolidation in the Health Insurance Industry and its Impact on Consumers
Paul Ginsburg testified on capital hill about the proposed mergers within the insurance industry, and the impact of those mergers on consumers. In his remarks, Ginsburg noted that health insurance mega-mergers such as those sought by Aetna and Anthem are extremely complex, difficult to analyze and could cost consumers. Explaining why the health insurance market is […]
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How Can We Make Health Care More Affordable?
Neeraj Sood testified before the California State Senate Committee on Health.
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Examining Health Care Competition: Limited Networks
Paul Ginsburg presented about insurance and provider networks during an FTC-DOJ workshop.
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Making Health Care Affordable: What’s Driving Costs?
Geoffrey Joyce provided expert testimony to the California Senate Health Committee about the role of the biomedical industry in healthcare cost trends.