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Network Matching: An Attractive Solution to Surprise Billing
Network matching would be an effective solution to the most common instances of surprise billing and compares favorably to many of the most commonly discussed alternative approaches.
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Breaking Down The Bipartisan Senate Group’s New Proposal To Address Surprise Billing
Like other recent federal bills (and state laws), the bipartisan Senate legislation protects patients from surprise out-of-network bills through a “billing regulation” approach.
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Analyzing the House E&C Committee’s Bipartisan Surprise Out-Of-Network Billing Proposal
The Energy and Commerce draft would eliminate surprise out-of-network billing for both emergency and non-emergency services (with the notable exception of ambulance services) and across different sites of care (e.g., hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), freestanding emergency departments).
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The Relationship Between Network Adequacy and Surprise Billing
As policymakers look to address surprise out-of-network billing, network adequacy regulation is raised as a potential solution. Researchers from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative argue the network adequacy framework is poorly suited to solving this problem.
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California Can’t Wait for Washington’s Approval to Control Healthcare Spending
Schaeffer researcher Glenn Melnick writes that we need legislation that reduces hospitals’ emergency room leverage by capping out-of-network emergency room charges and to rein in the growing economic power of large healthcare enterprises in California.
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Seminar Series: Manish Mishra
Manish Mishra will present his work titled, “Principles of Shared Decision Making in the Context of Accountable Care Organizations.”
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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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People Cost Even More Than Drugs: The Imperative For Productivity
The biggest reason health care in the United States costs so much more than in other wealthy countries is that it takes more, and more highly paid, people to deliver care, says Quintiles Senior Fellow Bob Kocher. He offers policy solutions for improving labor productivity.
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Building on the ACA to Achieve Universal Coverage
Initiative researchers propose a blueprint for achieving universal coverage at a manageable fiscal cost and with minimal disruption for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are already insured.
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PODCAST: The Trump Administration’s New Challenge to the Affordable Care Act
Initiative Fellow Christen Linke Young provides an overview of the legal challenges the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has faced since its enactment, recent developments in a lawsuit regarding the ACA’s constitutionality, and what the latest claims could mean for the credibility of the Department of Justice.
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