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Adapting Medicare Advantage Bidding for COVID-19 Related Uncertainty on Claims: A Proposal
The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally disrupting the health care system and injecting significant uncertainty about current and future utilization and costs.
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How Would Sharing Rebates at the Point-Of-Sale Affect Beneficiary Cost-Sharing in Medicare Part D?
If cost-sharing were based on net price it would provide meaningful financial relief to many Part D beneficiaries.
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What Are the Health Coverage Provisions in the House Coronavirus Bill?
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative experts break down the health coverage provisions in the latest House bill addressing the novel coronavirus.
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Association of Combination Statin and Antihypertensive Therapy With Reduced Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Risk
Drugs already being used to treat high blood pressure and cholesterol could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to a new Schaeffer Center study of nearly 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
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The ACA’s Individual Mandate In Retrospect: What Did It Do, And Where Do We Go From Here?
A USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative expert examines if the mandate meaningfully increased coverage and what can be learned from the ACA if policymakers want to achieve universal coverage in the future.
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The Association Between Drug Rebates and List Prices
Drug rebates and list prices are positively correlated: On average, a $1 increase in rebates is associated with a $1.17 increase in list price.
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Remanding Texas v. U.S. to the Lower Court Prolongs Harms to Consumers and the Health Care Industry
How will remanding Texas v. U.S. case to the lower court will affect the health care market? Drug manufacturers face tremendous scientific uncertainty while ACA funding has clearly become a major component in state spending.
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Provider Charges Relative to Medicare Rates, 2012-2017
Researchers examined data on charges for providers treating Medicare patients and compared them to Medicare’s set payment rate across specialties. They found specialties possessing the ability to surprise bill out-of-network patients higher charges relative to Medicare rates than other specialties.
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Who Pays in Medicare Part D? Giving Plans More Skin in the Game
Private plans have the potential to lead the way toward innovative contracting approaches that emphasize value and, in doing so, deliver on the original vision for the Part D marketplace.
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PODCAST: The Biggest Health Care Issues of the 2020 Election
In this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, health policy experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative discuss the presidential candidates’ health proposals, and also look at what to do about surprise medical billing.