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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative
The national hepatitis C elimination initiative would substantially reduce HCV-related morbidity and mortality and would reduce healthcare spending at 10 years and beyond.
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Addressing Value Defects From Wasteful Services Through Health Technology Assessment
All parts of the health care delivery system—ranging from biotechnologies to provider-led health care services—should be held equally accountable for providing valuable services to patients.
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Multi-Year Medicare Physician Fee Freeze Threatens Access: Pair Relief With Reforms
With fees frozen, high inflation threatens access to care and has other consequences.
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Schaeffer White Paper Highlights Failures in Generic Drug Market That Cost Patients
A new USC Schaeffer Center paper highlights tactics used by intermediaries in the pharmaceutical distribution system, including pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurers, that are costing patients, employers and the government billions for what should be inexpensive medicines.
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Patients Deserve Immediate Access to FDA-Approved Innovations — Not Bureaucratic Restrictions
Nonresident Senior Fellow Joe Grogan argues that the FDA approval process is slowing down drug innovation.
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Value Defects In The Health Services Sector
As of 2021, US health care expenditures exceed $3.8 trillion. It’s no secret that health care is nearly as wasteful in spending on value defects—behaviors that needlessly reduce quality, negatively impact the patient experience, or add to total costs of care—as it is in delivering clinical benefits.
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Stabilizing Health Care’s Share of the GDP
Since 1960, health care’s share of the GDP has risen by an average of 2.2 percentage points per decade, as compared with an average increase of 1.1 percentage points per decade in 15 other high-income countries since the early 1970s.
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Injuries Due to Medical Error are Common. They Could Be Prevented by Reducing Complexity
Research shows that medical error is the third leading cause of death worldwide.
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Improving Care of People With Serious Medical Illness—An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
More people are living with serious illness as the population ages, and patients with socioeconomic disadvantages bear the greatest burdens of poor care.
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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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