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Thirty-Day Postdischarge Mortality Among Black and White Patients 65 Years and Older in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
In this study of patients 65 years and older, short-term postdischarge mortality did not appear to increase for black patients under the HRRP, suggesting that certain value-based payment policies can be implemented without harming black populations. However, mortality seemed to increase for white patients with HF and this situation warrants investigation.
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Paying Patients To Switch: Impact Of A Rewards Program On Choice Of Providers, Prices, And Utilization
One increasingly popular strategy to encourage patients to switch to lower-price providers is to financially reward patients who receive care from such providers. Neeraj Sood and colleagues evaluated the impact of a rewards program.
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Joint Recommendations of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and AEI Scholars to Reduce Healthcare Costs
The experts recommendations to the Senate committee aimed at four main goals: improving incentives in private insurance, removing state regulatory barriers to provider market competition, improving incentives in the Medicare program, and promoting competition in the pharmaceutical market.
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Federal Policy to End Surprise Billing: Building on Prior Approaches
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts review differences among two proposals to combat surprise medical bills in the 115th Congress and outline some key considerations for the next wave of federal surprise billing policy.
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Testimony on Texas v. U.S.: The Republican Lawsuit and its Impacts on Americans with Pre- Existing Conditions
Christen Linke Young delivered testimony to the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health on February 6, 2019.
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Emerging Policy Solutions to Surprise Medical Bills
Policymakers and stakeholders will join our USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts to discuss possible policy solutions for surprise medical bills based on new research.
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Texas Ruling Over Obamacare is Wrong to Claim That Without the Insurance Mandate, the Healthcare Law Can’t Survive
The Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets are stable, even without a penalty for those who don’t have coverage.
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Characteristics of Physicians Excluded From US Medicare and State Public Insurance Programs for Fraud, Health Crimes, or Unlawful Prescribing of Controlled Substances
The number of physicians excluded from participation in Medicare and state public insurance reimbursement owing to fraud, waste, and abuse increased on average, 20 percent per year, between 2007 and 2017.
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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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