Hospitals and Health Systems
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Trends in the Use of Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Care Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis
Hospitals might be shifting to more intensive post-acute care to avoid readmissions among seniors with pneumonia. At the same time, penalized hospitals’ efforts to prevent readmissions may be keeping higher proportions of their patients in the community.
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What is Surprise Billing?
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy answer commonly asked questions about surprise medical bills and how to deal with them at a policy level.
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We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
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Do Lower Readmissions at Penalized Hospitals Signify an Effective Policy or Simply a Statistical Anomaly?
A new analysis finds at least three quarters of the improvement in readmission rates by hospitals who had poor baseline performance was due to regression to the mean (i.e. statistical luck) rather than the policy.
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Wins Top Student Award of the American Society of Health Economists
Eunhae Shin, 2019 USC doctoral degree graduate and USC Schaeffer Center pre-doctoral fellow, received the 2019 Student Paper Award from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC on June 24.
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Value-Based Contracting in Healthcare: What Is It and How Can It Be Achieved?
Value-based contracts must incentivize the clinical decision maker, usually the physician, to allocate treatment based on both price and value. Changing certain elements in the financing system could create an environment for successful value-based contracting without having to reform the entire system.
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Hospital Productivity Trends: Implications for Medicare Payment Policy
On June 25, 2019, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy hosted a conference on hospital productivity trends and their implications for Medicare policy on hospital payment rate updates.
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Reverse Reference Pricing: Rewarding Patients For Reducing Medicare Costs
Neeraj Sood and Christopher Whaley write that it is time for Medicare to apply the lessons learned by private insurers to incentivize price shopping by patients.
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Comments on the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy provide comments on the Senate HELP committee’s latest bipartisan attempt to lower healthcare costs.
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How Does Option Value Affect the Potential Cost-Effectiveness of a Treatment? The Case of Ipilimumab for Metastatic Melanoma
Innovations that extend life can generate option value and cost of experiencing future technologies. Schaeffer postdoc Meng Li developed generalizable approaches to estimating option value in cost-effectiveness analysis.
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