Hospitals and Health Systems
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Comments on the No Surprises Act
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts provide comments on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recently proposed legislation to address surprise medical billing.
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Allocating Outreach Resources for Disease Control in a Dynamic Population with Information Spread
Infected individuals must be aware of disease symptoms to seek care, so outreach and education programs are critical to disease control.
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Padula Receives ISPOR Honor for Research on Pressure Injury Prevention
William Padula was honored at the Annual ISPOR Awards Program with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Application of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
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Do Health Insurance and Hospital Market Concentration Influence Hospital Patients’ Experience of Care?
The findings from this study add to the evidence on the harms of hospital consolidation but suggest that insurer consolidation may improve patient experience.
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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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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology
Abstract We exploit a large-scale natural experiment – the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland – to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines, which are globally popular, effective but addictive psychotropic medications. We find no impact on […]
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Geographic Variation in the Delivery of High-Value Inpatient Care
Hospitals in Miami produced 13 percent fewer high-quality hospital stays than the U.S. average, while hospitals in Everett, Washington, a city 25 miles north of Seattle, perform over 20 percent better than average on value.
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Novel Value Framework Finds Substantial Variation Across the US in Delivery of High-Value Care at Hospitals
Hospitals in Miami produced 13 percent fewer high-quality hospital stays than the U.S. average, while hospitals in Everett, Washington, a city 25 miles north of Seattle, perform over 20 percent better than average on value.
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Psychiatric Emergencies Account for Nearly One-in-Five Monetary Penalties Levied on Hospitals under Anti-Dumping Law
The proportion of settlements related to psychiatric emergencies has increased in recent years, suggesting the need for more resources to improve access and quality of care for patients with psychiatric emergencies.
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