Research
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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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Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
Supply-side interventions which limit access to opioids may have the unintended consequence of increasing use of substitute drugs, including heroin.
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Non- Contributory Pension Programs and Frailty of Older Adults: Evidence from Mexico
The study aims to estimate the effects of non-contributory pension programs on frailty of older adults in the state of Yucatan, Mexico.
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The Association of Multiple Anti-Hypertensive Medication Classes with Alzheimer’s Disease Incidence Across Sex, Race, and Ethnicity
The researchers find hypertension management treatments that include RAS-acting ARBs may, in addition to lowering blood pressure, reduce AD risk, particularly for white and black women and white men.
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Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Workers’ Compensation Reforms
The researchers link administrative claims data to earnings records for injured workers and their uninjured coworkers and find that workers with low back injuries experienced a 7.6% post-reform decline in medical care, and an 8.1% drop in post-injury earnings relative to other injured workers.
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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.
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The Standardized Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol (SPIPP) for Improving Nursing Compliance with Best Practice Guidelines
The SPIPP checklist of quality improvement interventions is well positioned to have an immediate impact on hospital-acquired pressure injuries prevention in hospitals globally.
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Trends in Dementia Prevalence and Risk Factors in the United States
The researchers find disparities in dementia prevalence declined between blacks and whites and increased between Hispanics and whites.