Loren Adler

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Loren Adler was the associate director of the Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy before the initiative was completed. He currently serves as associate director at the Center for Health Policy at Brookings. He previously served as research director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and as a senior policy analyst for the Bipartisan Policy Center and Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force. Adler received his bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from Wesleyan University.

Recent Work

No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution Outcomes for Emergency Services

Providers won 86% of cases for the most commonly disputed professional service, with mean decisions 2.7 times higher than the qualifying payment amount.
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Ground Ambulance Billing and Prices Differ by Ownership Structure

28% of commercially insured emergency ground ambulance transports during the period 2014–17 resulted in a potential surprise bill
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Comments on the Request for Information on Medicare

Schaeffer Initiative experts submitted a comment letter responding to a recent request for information (RFI) related to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program

By Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, PhD, Richard G. Frank, PhD and Marta Walentynowicz
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Dispute Resolution Outcomes for Surprise Bills in Texas

Analysis of cases that went through dispute resolution found the final allowed were largely anchored to the established.
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The FDA Could Do More to Promote Generic Competition: Here’s How

USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts focus on three areas of FDA authority that could be refined to better promote generic competition: the Citizen Petition mechanism; the approval of so-called complex generic drugs; and the phenomenon known as “parking” under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
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Recent Work

No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution Outcomes for Emergency Services

Ground Ambulance Billing and Prices Differ by Ownership Structure

Comments on the Request for Information on Medicare

Dispute Resolution Outcomes for Surprise Bills in Texas

The FDA Could Do More to Promote Generic Competition: Here’s How